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Executive pushes ahead with renovations

GSA accused -of foul Play by Peter Brown Imprint staff The Grad House is a house divided. The Graduate Student House Liaison Association’s Officer Gary Craib is blowing the whistle on what he calls “inappropriate use of grad students’ funds” and “usurping of (his) job.” According to Craib, the GSA’s Board of Directors secretly paid $26,000 last summer to a former business manager to quit, and nearly the same group of people is now ramming through Grad House renovation plans. Craib has also accused GSA President Nelson Joannette of intimidation and threats. “He (Joannette) said that he would ruin my personal life,” Craib claimed. Joannette was out of town this week and will be contacted by Imprint when he returns. Other members of the executive contacted by Imprint declined comment. The GSA is a legal corporation and is autonomous from any part of the university. Craib feels that the Executive has abused the power that comes with this and lack of independence accountability. Though Craib did not become House Liaison Officer until September 1989, he has access to the confidential minutes of the meeting in which the GSA executive offered the then business man-

ager the lump sum payment to step down. Craib showed these minutes to Imprint and offered a paraphrase, though he could not release them. Joannette was Vice-President at the time, the President being Brad Kurtz. According to Craib, the executive had become dissatisfied with the performance of the business manager, calling him ‘luncooperafive and lazy,” and decided to offer him a $~2,000 lump sum and a $4,000 relocation payment. Normally with an expenditure of this size, the GSA must schedule the voting for a

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future meeting and notify graduate students about this vote. In this case, a member of the Board moved to waive notice of motion so that such notice would not need to be given. Then, the Board authorized the payment to the former employee. Craib further claims .that Joannette, after becoming President this March, usurped his authority by working on Grad House renovation plans without

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by JaHagey Imprint Staff Blood may be shed this weekend but not over the’alt’groups or the ‘Tool’: danger lies in academic circles. This weekend the University of Waterloo English Department is hosting their first “Rhetoric of Controversies in Literary Criticism” conference. And controversy will only be the half of it. Several heavy-weights in the world of criticism are speaking and presenting papers, starting Thursday night and ending Satat various urday afternoon locals on campus. Stanley Fish, Hillis Miller, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Louise Wetherbee-Phelps and other notable critics are scheduled to speak. Among subjects to be dis-’ cussed, and fought over, will be the future of literary criticism, cleavages in criticism, and concritical theory. temporary Deconstuctionist, semiotic,‘feminist, and analytical theorists will

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promises to be the most heated conference this year in literary history. Those

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interviews and an over-view c with speci: the conference, comment from its chief orgar izer, Prof. Murray McArt hur.

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The essential reasoning for the groups. Upon examination, he of the newsfelt that newsgroups within the x unsubscribing groups was outlined by Dr, Alan “alt.‘: hierarchy were not related George, UW provost, in an arti-. to the inst’ructional, research or cle from the May 9 edition of adminstrative needs of UW. As reported in the last issue of * He has been criticized in some Gazette entitled “UW pulls the Imprint (‘Newsgroups H“alt”ed,’ plug on computer chat.” In the circles for his two-week absence May 4, the “alt.” hierarchy of text of this article, Dr. George following the implementation of electronic newsgroups was describes the ,amount dof disk the order to unsubscribe. Wang removed from distribution on space used by newsgroups as the UW computer systems on . credits this to “unfortunate cirbeing “measured in gigabytes.” cumstances.‘* His plans were April 27. Some students have taken made before the decision to halt At the time that decision was issue with this claim, claiming the “alt.” subscription and could made, Johnny Wong, Associate that the actual amount of disk not be altered. Provost for Computer and Inforspace used is closer to 200 megmation Services was away and abytes - a fraction of George’s unavailable for comment until U.W.O. has been forced “gigabytes” claim. The truth of Monday, May 14. the matter is that both are right In the intervening time period, to look elsewhere for,alt. - the actual amount of newsmuch debate has gone on in ot he’r group postings which are online newsgroups online electronic newsgroups at any one time is in the rage of and such as “uw.general” the lower figure. However, the “uw,cgl.” Some of the postings to data is duplicated on each main One of the linked effects of this the newsgroups have accused computer system which leads to action is that the University of the decision-makers of censorthe “gigabytes” figure. ship and of restricting the free Western Ontario, who depends upon Waterloo for its newsgroup . flow of information. This duplication of data has feed, has been forced to look Dr. Wong emphasized that his lead to calls for a general open elsewhere. In light of the necesrole is to manage the use of the review of the newsgroups, along sary discussion of the newsuniversity’s computer facilities with the formulation of a set of as “economically and wisely” ag group issue, a meeting of the formal guidelines concerning Computer and Computing Servipossible. He has the responsibilPolnewsgroups and an accounting ces drafted a “Collections ity of meeting UW’s instrucof the actual dollar savings icy” which set out criteria for the tional, research and adminisaccrued from the removal of the examination and prioritization trative e computer resource “alt.” hierarchy. of newsgroup feeds. needs. There is no plan to act upon At present, there is no general Facing a 1.5 per cent budget any of these requests from stuUW policy regarding newsgroup cut, along with ‘increasing dents, however Dr. Wong invites feeds as a whole. Nor, according requests for resources, Dr. Wong concerned students to visit him to Dr. Wong, is there one being gave consideration to the resourpersonally to discuss the’issue. drafted, ces which are devoted to news-

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Craib’s knowledge, and by form ing a committee that overlappec into the functjon of the Houst Committee, of which Craib i: chair. Craib supplied Imprint witi GSA Bylaw 4 which states tha matters concerning renovation! and repairs to the Grad HOUSI fall completely within the jol description of the House Liaison Officer and the House Commit tee. This bylaw says that thi Officer is “charged with the gen era1 supervision of the opera tions and maintenance of thl House.” Section (e] says that thl Officer shall “make recommen dations to the Board, in collabo with the Hous ration Committee, concerning capita projects including furniture and facilities am equipment+ their maintenance.” Section (h says that the Officer shall “act a project manager for the Boarr for any repairs, alterations, 0 expansions of the House.” According to Craib, Joannet t was eager to begin an officl expansion as quickly as possi ble, and so struck an Officl Expansion Committee to oversei the planning of the renovations Joannette was reluctant to allov Craib to be on the committee despite the House Liaison Offic er’s responsibilities as speilet out in Bylaw 4. Even after allow ing Craib onto the committee Craib said, Joannette failed tc

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who wish can register for the remaining discussions at a cost of $15.00 a day, and catch some of the biggest egos in the business. Next issue will feature

. scoop by Paul Done Imprint staff As a part of their continuing effort to be an environmentally-conscious icexream stand, Scoops has decided that they will phase out use of the waxed cups in which they serve their frosty treats. Instead, customers will be asked to provide their own cups into which the ice cream can be

scooped. As part of their overall policy which has resulted the removal 01 over-packaged items like ice cream sandwiches, and involves the recycl-

ing of all packaging materials,Scoops wiU also be introducing wooder spoons to replace the plastic one? used at present. Resigning manager Bernie Herolc said that WPIRG was approached tr make a suggestion as to the directior Scoops should take concerning thf

use of cups. WPIRC’s answer wa: simple enough - no cups at all. Instead of the paper cups, Scoopswill be selling WFUG reuseable mugs with a special incentive: a large ice cream for the price of a small when you purchase a mug.

There will be a one month transition period before UW students must to those famibr waxy orange cups.

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4 Imprint, Friday, May 18,1990

NEWS

Craib plans petition Continued

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Officer and the Chair of the meeting. Bylaw 4 states that the Discrimination i. VP External “shall . , . express BehoviourlAclicm impartial judgements in matters and as Bylaw of dispute,” is uctionwhich deniesor hasthe effectof denying any Officer, shall “ensure him(her)self that all actions, decisions, and policies of the Corporation origin, creed,sex,age,mar&if slalus, sexwl orientalion, famtiy status, and its officers are in accord handicapor medicalcondition. (cf. Bill 7 “An Acr to Reviseand Extend with the Letters Patent or ByProtectionof Human Righa in OntwW, 1981,Part IL and the “Charter Laws, . . and to report any conof Righis”, SectiontI.B.) travention to the Board.” An original expansion plan Communicalion was presented to the GSA Board by then House Liaison Officer This refers to ar?),acl of communication -- e.g.: oral, w&&n, electronic, Ping Yan on Feb. 27, 1990 and ifrom UW Policy 3.3) non-verbal-- wilhin the parametersof item 1I.B.t. above. was split into three phases. Phase one involved a $44,000 washroom expansion that would by Peter Brown motes disrespect or intolerance and including’ expulsion from increase the floor. space by 196 Imprint staff for any person(s) based on” the university. square feet. This was necessary those same personal characterAs with most dispute-based to satisfy the requirements of the The definition of discriminaistics. The proposed policy policy mechanisms’ appeal to Grad House’s liquor license. tion here at UW will be greatly encourages those with com- the President of the University is Phase two was a 303 sq. feet broadened if a new Ethics Policy plaints to resolve them inforthe last resort of an unsatisfied office expansion costing passes unscathed. And UW mally, but also sets out a formal complainant. $68,343, and phase three proPresident Doug Wright can expel disputes procedure. In this, the The President’s Ad’ Hoc Composqd to add 360 sq. feet to the someone from the university for Ethics Committee, composed of a mittee to Review UW Policy 33 main lounge (dart room] for breaching these guidelines. faculty member, a staff member, on Ethical Behaviour was $81,000. Concerns about In a policy document drafted and a graduate student, makes formed in February 1989 to concramped office space led to this winter and modified in recommendations to the Vice sider possible amendments or Joannette’s scaled down project. April, the parameters of discrimPresident, Academic 8r Provost, alterations to said policy. One Craib has written a petition ination have been greatly on the disposition of the com- item on the committee’s mandate for Grad students to indicate widened from certain actions to plaint, including any remedies. included considering what their concern about the operacertain “(acts) of communiThe February draft requires the “additions and/or alterations” tion of the GSA. It calls on the cation. A draft of the Ethical VP Academic to -implement the might be made to the existing Senate and the UW administraBehaviour guidelines, dated Feb. suggested remedies’ while the ethics policy to deal with distion to “formally investigate the 20, 1990, defines discrimination April revision allows him or her criminatory behaviour. current structure and recomas “any action which denies or to not take action. A Second major area of examimend changes that will make the has the effect of denying any ser: Under Section III, titled nation of the committee was to GSA a fair and democratic instivices’ benefits, opportunities, “Remedies,” the policy places formulate a code of academic tution reporting to the Univerity and/or facilities provided by the ethical offences as defined by the ethics for UW faculty. The corn, Senate.” If ten percent of Grad University” on the basis of per- Ethics Committee under the mittee was also asked to look students call for a special gen- sonal characteristics. Academic Regulations & Stu- into the selection process for eral meeting to discuss any matDuring first reading on April dent Discipline policy as out- I members of the Ethics ters “of an urgent nature,” the I 16,X990, the Senate changed this lined in the Undergraduate Commit tee. Board must call such a meeting. passage, section II.B.l, to read: Calendar. Such offences would To become official university “Discrimination includes any act fall under Section 11.~ of these policy, the proposed changes of communication whether oral, “behaviour which regulations, must pass second reading at next Petitions are avaiiible outside written, electronic or noninterferes with the rights of Tuesday’s (May 22) Senate Imprint. verbal, and which lacks any other students to pursue their Meeting, and then be referred to redeeming artistic, intellectual studies,” Section IV prescribes the Board of Governors’ meeting or literary merit and which pro5. possible penalties ranging up to, --

Inform him of the meeting times. Without Craib’s knowledge, loannette commissioned an in architect, Pat Sutherland, Plant Operations to prepare a blueprint for renovating much of the Grad House’s second floor into three offices, two of which would have no ventilation and no heating and one of which would measure five feet by 14 feet, This blueprint was dated May 1, 1990. In a May 9 letter to Zraib, Sutherland gave a preliminary estimate of between t12,OOO and $18,000 for this temporary measure. Joannette originally scheduled a meeting of the Office Expansion Cdmmittee for May 2 at 4:30 pm and later re-scheduled this meeting to 3:00 pm on the same day without telling Craib. At the 3:00 pm meeting, the remaining members of the committee (Joannette, Vice’-President Annie Steinhauer, and Social & Athletic Director Jean Cloutier] approved the architect’s plan. At 4:30, Joannette met privately with Craib to inform him of the decision. At the next Board meeting on May 7, the Office Expansion Committee presented its report, along with the new renovation plan. The report listed Craib as being on the committee, but Craib claims that he was never consulted on the content of the report I During the meeting, Craib says, he spoke out against the plan and criticized Joannet t e and the committee. For this, he was censured a number of times by the Vice-President External, who was acting as the Bylaws

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college presidents who have decided that it’s vital to suppress speech in order to nurture learning and civility on campus have exposed their lack ofqualifications to hold their jobs. They - and the others on campuses who support them - are saying to the bigots: Wt! can’t cope with your speech. Your way of expression is far too powerful for us. We don’t know how to educate against it. Our only - in this place of higher learning - is toshut you up. We are too weak in resources and skills and creativity to do anything else. (Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, s/s/sol Discrimination includes any act ofcommunication whether oral, written, electronic, or non-verbal, and which lacks any redeeming artistic, intellectual, or literary merit and which promotes disrespect or YntoIerance for cfny person (s] based on race, ancestry, place of origin, coIour, ethnic origin, creed, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation+ family status, handicap or medical condition. (University of Waterloo Policy 33: Ethical Behaviour, II,B,I) - recommended new reading of policy under review. At the moment, campuses across l

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North America are undergoing a backlash against the essential idea of freedom of expression. Rapidly, new guidelines defining the limits of free speech and freedom of expression are being emplaced under the guise of “ethics” or “discrimination” codes. We at Waterloo are not exempt from this reactionary impulse. Recently, the UW Executive Senate Committee has been in the process of reading and emplacing a revised version of the policy quoted above. What is justification for instilling the UW Et hits Commit tee, vice-president academic, president with the right of final arbiter and judge on redeeming artistic, intellectual, and literary merit? Committee recognizes that there ure risks involved in attaching conditions to academic freedom, and that these risks must be diligently guarded against, but it rejects the point of view that this outweighs all other considerations, In taking this position, the Committee feels its views ore not only justified, but consistent with views currently held in our society.(Rcport of thr! President’s Ad Hoc Committee to review UW Policy 33 on Ethical Rehaviour, final,)

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Hatred, especially hatred which manifests itself in the form of discrimination - the target of the ethical guidelines - is generally not a subtle display. Even when buried in the guise of bad journalism or bad research, hatred and . intolerance reeks with a vile stench. The subtle, insidious, worrisome hatred will slip throu,gh any set of ethical guidelines which stop short of draconian authoritarianism, The only valid avenue to rebut this hatred and render it impotent is debate - the open debate which is supposed to be a natural part of university life. Our moral tradition lends moral justification to the suppressed, the oppressed. The urge to gag dissent is a sign of fear and weakness - a sign of unwillingness to step into the ring of debate. The gag does nothing but lend false moral weight to the spreaders of hatred and the practicers of discrimination. There is a grave danger involved in the emplacement of ethical guidelines ’ which institute judgement upon the subjective grounds of artistic, intellcctudl and literary merit’. The danger that the guidelines may be abused is made

more pressing by the fact that the power to judge and execute this policy will reside within the hands of a small group of people - the Ethics Committee, the vice-president (academic) and the president of the university. A vague, encompassing definition of discrimination as has been proposed not only suppresses discriminatory material, but it also creates the potential for the self-suppression of nondiscriminatory material by those on campus, simply for fear of complaint or protest. We at Imprint are gravely concerned about the recommendations which have been made by tho President’s Ad Hot: Committee and wotild like to see an issue as important and far-reaching as the university’s Ethics Policy dealt with in an open, public fr#rum. Only through this type of proceedings can a fair and representative Et hits Policy be drafted, The Senate will be meeting 7:30 pm, this coming Tuesday, May 22 in the Senate board room on the third floor of Needles Hall. If you are bothered and concerned about the repercussions of the proposed changes to the IJW Policy on Ethical Behaviour, we at Imprint encourage you to attendthe meeting.

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WPlRGSet Are you worried that no one is doing anything about the indiscriminate dumping of toxic waste? That no one is doing anything about the extermination of the people of East Timor? That the earth is dying and no one seems to care? You should be worried. The forces that carry out acts against this planet and its people are powerful. You should also be angry, for much of the destruction that goes on, does so with the help of your ignorance, gullibility and worst of all, your trust; a trust that is being exploited and betrayed as consent. Think about your rights as a tenant, or your rights as an individual to breathe clean air and drink safe water, These rights are not separable from other global issues, such as the poisoning of our lakes by acid rain, or the acts being committed in our name, with our tax dolIars, against the poor in developing countries. Agencies such as the World Bank, the IMF and the subsidized military industries of the West are surviving increasingly on exports to impoverished nations. WPIRC, the Waterloo Public Intereat

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work on a wide variety of environmental and social justice issues. By gathering information on such concerns, students have learned the skills &valved in public interest research and have contributed to publications including “Acid Rain:the Silent Crisis,” “Chemical’ Nightmare:the Unnecessary Legacy of Toxic Waste,” “The Social Impacts of Computerizat ion,” “A Worker’s Guide to Solvent Hazards,” and the “K-W Tenant’s Guide.” WPIRG volunteer work groups offer students an opportunityto- select+ organize, tind evaluate issties, activities and goals in their pursuit of social change and ecological sanity. Activities. often based uDon the research efforts of the groub members themselves, regularlytake the form of speaking events, film screenings, debates, displays and other educational programs. WPIRG staff and valunteers rovide a valuable source of knowle Bge and information for students working on - essays and assignments and for community members interested in various

issues. Our resource chntrk contains a multitude of books, periodicals- and psper8 on autijects ranging from Latin

America and ground water to disarmament and energy conservation. Our vertical files contain thousands of newspaper clippings and pamphlets on matters such as occupational health and safety, forestry, native rights and nuclear power. A seven member board of directors made up of students elected from across campus, gives WPIRG its financial and organizational direction: A refundable student fee, collected each term, provides WPIRG’s programming and salary expenses, while project grants and community donat ions provide other needed funding. If you would like to channel your indignation over the state of the world toward a plan of action, or if you want to avoid the sinking sense of despair that arises from apathy and indifference visit the WPIRG office and get involved. We’re located in the General Servfces Complex [smokestack building], room 123, and are open Man-Thurs Q-5, and Friday by appointment. VVPIRG’s volunteer oriento4ion session is Wednesday. Ma 23 in CSC iZ3 at MO. Come and fin cyout hw you can get active.

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To the editor, Fall: 1988: I wrote a work term report for credit, but due to the sensitivity of the topic, I had to leave it with my manager for approval: he intended to clear the report for marking by my undergraduate -department, however on a “Confidential” basis. Winter 1989: Back on campus, I checked with my department that the report had been received. Surprisingly, it wasn‘t there. I called my manager to explain the situation, and he informed me it had been sent by courier a few days earlier. Surmising it had been lost in transit: he sent another one, Assuredly, the second report arrived, but because of lost time, it was declared a late report to be marked the following. term. I grudgingly accepted this (it was only a few days late, and I wasn’t directly at fault,) f also informed the department to possibly expect a second, identical report that I wished to have returned ASAP, Spring 1989: Upon examination of my marks, I realized I had already received credit for the work term report [what a bonus.) I phoned the department, and sure enough, it harl been marked (Febru-

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not inequality. To the editor, I I went to the Wiegand Lectures this year expecting at least to be educated somewhat about values. The first speech was given by Dr. Ursula Franklin, “What to do after one has taken a dim view?” Dr. Franklin did pose some interesting questions concerning technology and values. However, if she had further researched the issues, she may have come to different conclusions, Concerning the use radar guns and detectors of fuzz busters by police, the latter are not very vital to enforcement. Police officers occasionally turn off their radar guns and thus fuzz busters would be useless then. Also, why did police switch to radar? I suspect that radar traps are cheaper than cruisers riding the highways and more politically acceptable. In many parts of her speech, she confused economics with what many “economists” study. Economics should be the study of how accepted individual values are reconciled with the reality of limited resources. No human activity can be accomplished instantaneously and everywhere perfectly. Her question of who should decide how large an advertisement should be, is a moral issue, not an economic one. If you accept a private-property system as your ethical standard, the costs of production will be borne by those who benefit or their benefactors, The cost of disposal should be borne by those who freely bought or accepted the

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ary 1989 in fact.] I had them send the report back, but they still couldn’t find the second one. They said I shouldn’t worry since I already had received credit (“Very Good” by the way.) I was still a little peeved. Fine and dandy. Spring 1990: a few weeks ago, I received a package from the department. Lo and behold: it was the second report (no longer “Confidential” since the information had become outdated.) It had been marked in lune 1989 by a different professor (only “Satisfactory” this time.) Perhaps I was being anally retentive, but I decided to check it out. The department’s files showed credit for the first report, but nothing for the second. I had a marking sheet for the second report, but I was missing the all-important “Work Report Receipt”, so the department couldn’t find out what had happened. Fine and dandy. My reasoning for this apparent mishandling of a “Confidential” report? Maybe my co-r)p marking fee was enough to pay for two readings but only one credit. CO-OP OTAY! I’m still under 400 words, so: Good move on renaming THE RIDGID TOOL to merely THE TOOL. Nope, nothing phallic there. Ever try saying “member” or ‘“winner” different1 ways? Bonus maneuver dudes. Bill Kung EE grunt student ad. If it is junk mail that has been sent, the addressee could see to it that only authorized mail is sent to him. Of course, some ad companies would object to a free market in the disposal of junk! The benefits of production phould be given to those who took the initiative and risk. If you do not accept this, you are more than welcome to set up a command or mixed market within a free market. If adult individuals want to voluntarily give up their economic rights to their collective, they are more than welcome to do so. However, they have no right to violate the rights of other’s, Those who would are elitists - even if elected. Dr, Franklin’s use of municipal building codes and New York state bridges was exemplary. These clearly show how democracies can be manipulated by elite special-interests, As for discrimination, an employer is free to pay a certain group less. If there is industry-wide action of paying some people less than they are worth, I would take advantage of it. ( This does not mean inequality, After all, some women may indeed have more valuable skills and should be paid more than most men. 1 The first thing I would do is incorporate with investors to offer to pay women what they are worth. Of course, the Ontario government would see to it that this would not happen. This is the current situation with nurses-most of them women. It should not be surprising to see feminist policies that are harmful to some women. Tam Koaiol

Rigid fallacies (phalluses?) To the editor, This letter is in response to the letter entitled “The right to be ri(d)gid” from the May 4th, 1990 Imprint. I agree with Mr. Becker “that sexism is an intolerable thing” and that “its major cause is ignorance.” Ignorance can work both ways as it may be the case here, A calm correction of the factsisinorder: theRidgidToolis made by the Ridge (not Ridgid] Tool Company of Ohio, the company ‘is located in the city of Elyria, Ohio (not Ridgeway, as Mr. Becker indicates.] The Ridge Tool Company is well known in the Urrited Statesas well as in Canada for its advertising involving beautiful women, their line of tools and exotic locations. Oft times, the tool disd play is very small giving emphasis to other aspects of the advertisement. Unfortunately there are some who find nothing wrong with this type of advertising or; worse, actually promote this advertising. In order to prevent ourselves from contributing to the problem of sexist advertising, the name change will aid in finding a solution. The university has faced a similar fiasco regarding advertisements for a certain basketball tournament, The

posters offended many groups on Fampus and the resultant effect saw the poster being withdrawn. Again the problem was addressed and a solution was found. To maintain a progressive attitude, as well as placate those who saw a problem, a solution was sought to continue the use of The Tool as the official mascot of the Waterloo Engineers. It is up to every individual engineer to stand up and support their mascot for that is the. purpose of such an object. An object that all Waterloo Engineering Students may hold in common whether they graduated from the university 20 years ago or plan to graduate 20 years from now. The decision to change the name (as minor as it as] was not a reflex action, it was based on the careful thought of an engineering society (of which all engineering students are a part of] faced with the public outrage surrounding the -massacre at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and the actions of a deranged lunatic. This decision was a small step in accompli’shing the greater goal of furthering the image of the engineering student as a responsible professional. As well, it illustrates the professionalism and progressiveness of young adults preparing for a career in engineering, not the spreading of ignorance through misinformation. Sean Murphy ZB Me& Eng.

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Galleries bidding over Van Gogh and Monet; Sluggish pigs nawing the carcasses, long dead and worshiped. . The splash of red on blue: Undiscovered blood, straightened and flush for the grave. Bureaucrats masturbating before the Voice of Fire: Liquid snow spurted into the artist’s blue vein, swollen with escapism. Plump patrons haggling for the rotting slabs, ignoring the butcher’s bloody smock: Tuxedoed fowls clucking, and sucking the marrow from the dry white bones. Rooms of art in the National Galley draped with government love; Cold, hanging meat caressed in the abattoir. Contented, we lie back before our televisions, needing nothing more; Fat Romans crackling on a barbarian fire. ‘“No society goes far without fostering it’s arts;” “Thursday the Gallery purcbsed the ‘Voice Of Fire’ while the government cut back its funding to the Canadian artistic community.”

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“Planet under siege”, -says Suzuki for granted. One of these truths. was that “through science we The way manage nature.” science approaches nature is to attempt to isolate and analyze many small portions of nature, and then attempt to aggregate this information, putting the pieces back’ together similar to a jigsaw puzzle. Dr. Suzuki refuted this type of analysis, saying that our ignorance of nature is too vast for humans to be able to manage it. An added criticism of science’s role in nature was that scientists can only study what the people funding them want

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“The planet today is under siege” was the message delivered by Dr. David Suzuki at,the Humanities Theatre last Tuesday, May 8. Suzuki was on campus to accept the Wiegand Award- for Canadian Excellence and give an address on the environmental crisis he believes the planet is facing. The award is given to Canadian citizens or permanent residents who “have made significant contributions to an understanding of the human dimensions of science and technology” and is administered by the university’s Centre for Science, Technology, and Values (CSTV). Suzuki stated that the money he received ($2500.00) would go toward a rainforest foundation that his wife started

famine “War, . or plague?” them to study.

Women have traditionally been left out of the power strucgro’wth was another sacred truth ture and Suzuki believes that the that he criticized by lashing out “nurturing (and) -co-operating” against economists’ narrow perspective of the female is view of the big picture. As an important in defining a new example, he stated that the perspective. Exxon oil spill in Alaska, while The youth of the world can be being one of the biggest environa powerful force in transforming mental crises ever, was seen by their parents’ perspective since economists as an economic they are becoming more conbenefit for Alaska due to Exxon cerned with their future. Suzuki spending two billion dollars on believes that if parents love their the clean-up. children, they will express this While economics is based on love by changing their habits. the assumption that the supply . Native peoples have been the of natural resources are infinite most oppressed and can teach us and exploiting them has no some lessons about how to immediate economic conseimprove- our relationship with quence, Dr. Suzuki pointed out the p!anet, said Suzuki. that the idea of a society having a Before leaving for a question steady incremental growth and .answer period with the press, Dr. Suzuki left the indefinitely is ludicrous and audience with a quote by Ed Wilmerely an aberration in,history. The question that remains is son: “In order to deal with the environmental crisis we have to whether the industrialized come to know our kin.” world .will change their habits The equating

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’ To begin the address, he discussed the time twenty-one years ago when photos of this planet from space were first taken, allowing humans to see that the earth is a single system containing what was previously viewed as many separate entities too far apart for most of us to envision as a whole. Peppering the audience with a barrage of statistics and extrapolations of existing situations, Suzuki expressed concern that governments were doing nothing when so many signs of catastrophe were present, and that “Prudence says we should do everything possible to m,inimize

Vwillingly or will “war, famine, or plague set the limits.” In summary, Suzuki told the audience that some realistic government action would have to be taken within this decade to buy enough time to find some long-term solutions. He also stated that the real hope lies with the disenfranchised groups in the world, mentioning primarily the Third World, women, youth, as well as elders and natives. These groups have different perspectives that should be respected and are vital in bringing about social change.

David Suzuki the consequences.” He advocated the audience to keep in mind the phrase “think globally, act locally,” stressing that keeping the big picture in mirid was essential to prolonging the life of the planet. He believes that one of the major causes of our environmental crisis is that industrialized nations, while consuming eighty percent of the world’s resources only constitute twenty percent of the world’s population. Ultimately, how the industrialized nations deal with the third world will determine the fate of the

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It’: a rare experience when a quiet, persistent voice c,an be heard above the industrial drone of today’s society. When that voice calls for a saner, healthier world, we have tried to tune it out. We are fortunate that Dr. Ursula Franklin has been patient enough to continue speaking her unpopular truths long enough for us stop and to listen. UW, through the Centre for Society, Technology and Values, recognized Dr. Franklin’s wisdom by awarding her the first ever Wiegand Award of Canadian Excellence in 1989. She had to delay giving her address until this year. In the meantime, she gained widespread recognition for. her insightful Massey Lectures on “The Real World of Technology”. Dr. Franklin has developed an nontraditional perspective on technology. As professor emeritus of U of T in metallurgy, she has a practical sense of technology’s applications. As a woman in a male-dominated field, she is aware of its exclusivity and male bias. And as a Quaker-pacifist, she has a moral sense of technology’s implications. From this perspective, Dr. Franklin is able to challenge some of the assumptions we make. In her introduction she reminded us that “male” was the accepted norm before feminism began challenging that assumption. Similarly, she feels that society has been wrongfully operating on the assumption that technology is a neutral force.

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Her lecture touched on how technology affects the original values held by society. As one example, she cited how ultraaccurate clocking devices have focused ourattentionon the winning time in sports, when the difference between first and second place is measured in hundredths of seconds. The grace and skill of the athlete is devalued and secondary elements such as type of running shoe of track become critical. Technology can also reflect the biases of a society. Referring

to the design of bridges in New York state, Dr. Franklin demonstrated how racism was silently perpetuated using technology when it would have been unacceptable to be explicitly racist. When the great majority of blacks were dependent on public transit, the network of bridges were designed so that buses could not pass through them to the beaches. This effectively restricted the beaches, to those wealthy enough to own cars, namely whites. Similarly, the design of houses and appliances

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by David Thomson Imprint Staff The Soviet Union’s “National Question” was the theme of 0 three-day international conference.held at St. Jeromes College in early May, About 85 academics from the U.S.S.R., the United States, Canada, and ,Germany attended the conference to discuss how the future of the U.S.S.R. is, and will be, affected by ethnic and religious nationalism. The conference covered as Marxismsuch topics regional economic Leninism’ development, and recent developments in the Baltic Republics. The highlight of the confer-w ence was the presence of Eduardas Vilkas and Igor Grazin, two members of the the Supreme

failed to accommodate the needs of women until women began entering the design field and eliminating the bias themselves. Technology has infiltrated our according to Dr, language, Franklin. We draw on the military industry when we use such terms as “strategy,” “target market ,” and “deadline” among others. These are so deeply imbedded and pervasive in our language that it is difficult to see the connection at first. Now aware of the implied violence of such words, Dr. Franklin has

consciously edited them from her vocabulary, choosing instead to use truly neutra1 terms. Dr. Franklin’s talk emphasized the great need to question the perceived impartiality of technology. The recently created Centre for Society, Technology and Values received her full support in its aim to study the effect each has on the other. Surely Dr. Franklin’s wisdom and insight will guide the inquiry into what has already become a growing area of concern.

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Soviet, the Soviet Union’s parliament. Vilkas is a leading Lithuanian economist and Grazin is an Estonian constitutional scholar. Both men linked the success of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and glasnost to the recognition as states of the three Baltic republics, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. Gorbachev’s goals will only appear more credible when they achieve Vilkas and independence, Grazin said. The Baltic states*are only three of the U.S.S.R.% 15 republics, many of which were occupied by the Sovie\ts during World War II and incorporated into the Soviet Unidn at the end of the war. The co&try is a multi-national one

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as a result of the ethnic and religious differences that are now manifesting themselves in declaratjons of independence. “At the time of drastic social changes, for academic people it sometimes looks like a great feast,” said Valery Tishkov, Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He believes that academics will play a large part in future events as nationalists disappointed with the Soviet way of life fight for independence. Mr. Tishkov also suggested that 90 percent of the country’s problems might be resolved if a more decentralized federation could be built+ allowing miore local autonomy.

The consensus that was arrived at was that the Baltic Republics, the southern Transcaucas territories, and the central Asian region would eventually become independent, leaving a pre-revolutionary Empire consisting of Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia. The conference was sponsored by the UW-WLU Centre for Soviet Studies and organized by its director Prof, john Jaworski of UW’s Political Science department. The Centre was formed approximately a year ago with the objectives of raising awareness and exchanging information about the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. It focuses on a different theme each year, and next year’s topic will be concerning the Soviet Union and Europe.

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Highschoolers protest repressive regime by jason Rochon Imprint staff “Freedom ... break the chains of Apartheid,” said their banner. On April 25, some 68 high school students roasted in the sun as they marched from the corner of King and Weber streets to Speaker’s Corner. The teenagers were protesting against the repressive Apartheid system in South Africa, a country that exemutesmore people than any other except Iraq. Passing motqrists honked and waved their support for the marchers, who chanted such SIO;ans like “Hey-hey, ho-ho, the racism has got to go” and “One *ace, human race.” The students vzrere a diverse group, some lreppy, others, a “flower child” ook. Grades nine to thirteen were represented by the mostly ‘em ale crowd. With the exception of one woman who ran before the group,onlookers reacted posiively to the march. Alena )atrak, owner/operator of Mr. Z’s Doughnuts on King Street, nvited the * marchers in and Iranted them a 50 percent dis:ount. Patrak says that she’s all ‘or freedom of speech and freelam of choice. When the group ‘inally did meet the police, officer W. Stevens asked only hat they kept to one side, so as lot to impede foot traffic. When the marchers arrived at speaker’s Corner, they set up a imall public address system and legan to spread their message. The keynote speaker, Leshy >aynter, urged the crowd to resst complacency. Paynter beferred to the black South Afri:an leader Nelson Mandela as only being released into a bigger orison. Members of the Social Justice Action Committee had the crowd sing “0 Canada”. They stopped singing several times to explore low the anthem’s words could

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be related to Apartheid issues and racism against Canada’s native people. After a groupsinging of “We Are the World”, there was an announcement about boycotting the Royal Ontario Museum, ‘the R.O.M. having an exhibit they feel portrays a racist image of South Africa, Many of the marching students had already encountered a different form of discrimination. ‘Their school had barred them from the protest. Although Eastwood Collegiate Institute’s Vice Principal, Mr Bovaire, gave permission for his students to attend the march, the administration of Waterloo Collegiate Institute forbade its students to participate in the march without prior parental consent. Jen DiCresce, a Saint David’s student who helped publicize the event, said that the KitchenerWaterloo Record placed a great deal of emphasis on whether or not the students had permission to attend the march. DiCresce feels that the protest provided important social awareness education, adding “I think that the school system failed to render that education,” The march was conceived and organized by Jackie Grieb, who began planning the march in January. She has also organized an Amnesty International group at Saint David’s high school and volunteers her time to the Global Centre’s youth Community group. Grieb says that she is opposed to the South African practices of “land appropriation and racial segregation.” She had three main reasons for organizing the march: to increase awareness of the situation in South Affica; to ask the government for tighter sanctio,ns against that nation; and to remember those “who have died for the cause,” like anti-Apartheid martyr Steven Biko. Also instrumental in running the event were Sumbo Ashabo and Alix Booth.~

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by Stephen Fischer Imprint staff April 22 to 28 was National Volunteer Week. Canadians from all across the country paid tribute to the millions of volunteers who make such a difference in the daily lives of their fellow citizens. The motto this year is “volunfeers are your neighbors.’ Volunteers touch every aspect of our society. They teach people to. read and write, help immigrants adapt to their new surroundings, set up food banks, coach hockey teams, and provide disaster relief. The boards of directors of Canada’s 60000 registered charities are filled by volunteers. . According to Statistics Canada, 13 million Canadians are regularly involved in volunteer work. This suggests that the spirit of generosity, sharing and giving of oneself is stiI1 very much alive in Canada. The dollar value of these activities is estimated at $2.5 billion in services each year.

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In Kitchener-Waterloo alone, 30000 meals were served to isolated senior citizens in their homes last year. Many of the elderly would otherwise be forced into nursing homes. Another 5000 people volunteer to keep neighbourhoods safe. Even Oktoberfest would be shelved if not for its 1500 volunteers. Mayor Brian Turnbull kicked off Waterloo’s recognition week at the Brick Brewery. He congratulated the almost 50000 people in the community who help “turn dreams into reality.” He suggested that Canada’s standard of living would be "zo%-30% lower without volunteers.” Reva Cooper is Executive Director of VoIunteer Placement Services in Waterloo region. She recruits and refers volunteers to the 200 or so local organizations. She has seen more than 2500 new volunteers since 1984. Cooper is insists that “volunteering absolutely vital” to health’, education and recreation in the region.

Sue Coulter is the president of the board of directors of the Volunteer Placement Service and acting director of Anselma House. Coulter insists that without volunteers Anselma House’s ability to care for victims of abuse would be seriously compromised. Among the many volunteers who were roasted and toasted this week was Jamie McIntosh, a local teacher. He volunteers two days a week at the Rotary Children’s Centre. For anyone interested in volunteering their time, McIntosh says the experience is “fantastic.” McIntosh ‘says he has received “more positive feedback than in five years of teaching in high school.” \ Penny McVicar of the Rotary Centre would like to thank all of the University of Waterloo students that bring great “enthusiasm to the job.” Anyone interested in giving of their time can contact the Volunteer Placement Centre at 7428610.

Fable of Mable by J-Hawv Imprint Staff Recent controversy has arisen concerning The Bombshelter and an unwed expectant mother who is living there with her young. While the Feds have announced support for the mother hen patrons have mixed feelings towards the arrangement. Known only as “Mable,” a large mother duck has taken up residence in a large cement plAanter on the patio’of the infamous studeot pub where she is hatching five brown-flecked eggs. It is not known if the eggs are hers and no drake has been seen in her

vicinity since she began her nesting. “She’s bf:en there since the end trf April,” said assist ;jnt tnanager Larry Vaughn. “At first she was afraid of people but now she eats right out of their hands.” Vaughn also revealed that Mahle has gained quite a reputation during her stay. Mable periodically disappears for days at a time, leaving her brood unattended. At staff parties she is always the last one left. Vaughn summed up his experiences with Mable: “She’s crazy!” Vaughn also told of Mable’s -desperate condition. “She started out with nine eggs but then she ate some and now she’s got five.” Ignoring charges from somt! patrons that Mable may be an unfit mother because .of her being single+ having no source of income, being mentally unstable and keeping late hours, the Federation has pledged their assistance. “We’ll provide for her needs, what ever they may be,” Kim Speers, vice-president of niversitv affairs, &id Tuesday.

c---“We need to look out for the underprivileged and needy in the university community, regilrdless.” The opinions n’n the duck IIf those who frequent the pub are widespread. While one student thought it was “great that someone was allowed to bring iheir kids tcl the ‘Shelter,” others ‘thought it “weird” and that tht! hen sh&ld be “institutionalized,” The administation is waiting for a complete report from its “Mable” commit tee before they will comment. Currently, Mable seems happy with plenty of bread and water while the Bombshelter staff ‘plans to build a ramp for the expected ducklings.

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Recycling Club by Julia Farquhar Imprint Staff Waterloo Recycling on Campus, more affectionately known as WATROC, is one of Waterloo’s newest campus clubs. After meeting informally throughout the fall term, the group formed an official campus club at the end of last term. WATROC was first formed in October 1989, when WPIRG representatives contacted student societies, university residences, and church colleges to encourage them to start their own recycling activities and to co-ordinate their efforts with other groups on campus. The club’s mandate is to coordinate a comprehensive, campus-wide recycling program for student societies, church colleges, and student residences. The group also provides general education about the whys and hows of recycling, and offers strategy and guidance for new groups starting up their own recycling programs. Former co-chairperson Jonathan Solomon calls WATROC “a group that wants to become nbsolete fast.” WATROC feels that one of its major roles is to push university administrat icm to form its own recycling program because students should not have to be responsible for this kind of waste management. Currently, WATHOC, not uniadministration, c0 versity ordinates two recycling runs each week, so tha,t individual groups do not have to handle sorting and hauling recyclable material by themselves. During a recycling run, WATROC volunteers srlrt the tin, glass,

newspaper, mixed paper, plastic, and cardboard collected at recycling stations across campus and haul the recyclable material to the university’s Grounds department, whkre a groundskeeper transports it to Laidlaw Waste Systems Lt d, This service will soon need to expand to three runs per week, WATROC anticipates. Together with university groundskeepers, they currently handle an estimated four to five tons of recyclable material each month, and this pile is growing larger practically every day. Certain buildings on campus generate huge amounts of garbage daily and do not recycle any of it. The Davis Centre and Fed Hall are two of the biggest offenders, and WATROC hopes to start up recycling programs at both buildings. Although WATROC deals primarily with recycling, the group stresses that reducing and reusing resources should precede recycling. The group heads an innovative fine paper recycling operation, which actually allows you to reuse paper. Volunteers sort through the fine paper collected in bins across campus, and bind sheets with “clear” sides into pads of paper. WATROC paper pads are on sale at student-run‘coffee shops for a mere quarter each. If your student society or residence is not actively recycling, or if you are interested in taking part in recycling on campus, WATROC welcomes volunteers who will help sort recyclable materials and help on recycling runs. WATROC meetings take place each Thursday at 6 pm, in EL. 109.

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English department gets new doctorate by Peter Brown Imprint etaff This spring; UW’s English department capped off a decade of exploding enrollment with a newly-approved and longawaited PhD program in literary and rhetorical studies. Three years of hard work by chairman Gordon Slethaug and other department faculty have paid off, with the province approving the first doctorate program in English in 20 years. The Ontario government instituted a moratorium on doctorate programs in the Humanities in 1970, and finally lifted it in 1985. What sets this program apart from other English PhD curricula in the province and the country is how it tries link the fields of literature, critical theory, rhetoric, and professional writing. “This integrative quality is at the heart of the progra’m,” says Slethaug, “and all students will have some acquaintance with professional writing and critical theory.” Each student will have an area of specialization, from Renaissance, American, or eighteenth century literature to an aspect of critical theory such as feminism. “Then there are certain kinds of bridging courses that link language, literature, and critical theory,” says Slethaug.

The Centre for Professional Writing will play an important role in the curriculum. Students who enter the Rhetoric and Professional Writing programs, either undergraduate or graduate, will be able to test their ideas in a very practical way through the Centre, which will allow students to research such areas as usability testing, marketing, advertising, and semiotics.

just now started their studies. Eight more are being admitted for the fall 1990 term. All- of the English department’s teaching faculty will be involved in this integrated, interdisciplinary approach, Slethaug indicated. “It’s a comprehensive PhD program linking critical theory, rhetorical theory, and professional writing.. The program exists to link theory with practice, to get people to

There are bridging courses that link language and critical theory literature The English Department will be hiring more faculty to support the new program if their application for government corridor funding is approved. This decision is expected soon. The only other Canadian university with a rhetoric program is UBC, but that program is not integrated as Waterloo’s will be. Carnegie-Mellon offers a program slanted very much toward computers and technology. Slethaug hopes that the program can increase its enrollment to 40 students over the next few years:Five students have been in a “holding pattern” for the past year, meaning that they would have entered the program had it been approved earlier, and have

think - about the relationships that exist between the functions and uses of language.” The English Masters program was originally designed, to accommodate 75 to 80 students, but its enrollment now stands at 100. The English department as a whole has experienced a huge growth in the past 13 years. Since 1977, its Masters program has doubled in enrollment while national enrollmefit in English graduate programs has increased by only eight percent and provincial levels have remained stagnant. UW’s undergraduate English enrollment has tripled alongside Canada’s 97 percent and Ontario’s 147 percent jumps in the same period.

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rients at each sitting. This unusual regimen reduced their total blooud cholesterol counts by 8.5%, says Tenkins. He adds that the m&t - dangerous forms of the fat - low-dinsity lipoprotein and apolipoprotein, dropped by more than 12%. other researchers have found that the risk of having a heart attack drops two per-cent for every one percent drop in cholesterol. High levels of cholesterol appear to cause problems by cidgging up arteries, decreasing or even blocking the flow of blood. It’s not clear whether lowcholesterol diets can reverse this process. Studies testing the notion have failed to answer the question one way or the other. Many scientists now believe that how much cholesterol one’s body makes is more important than how much one eats, .The U of T study supports this view. The volunteers took in the same amount of cholesterol each day whether they were eating three meals or 17. Yet only the IT-meal diet made any

by John Eberlee Reprinted from Canadian Science News Eating light snacks every waking hour may be better than the traditional three meals a day, according to University of Toronto researchers. In a recent study, Professor David Jenkins and his colleagues found the risk of heart disease was dramatically reduced among men who took in 2500 calories a day, but as 17 snacks rather than as breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Seven male volunteers tried both diets for two week periods, reported Jenkins. During the continuous eating phase, the subjects ate the same amount of meats, grains, milk products, fruits and vegetables each day as they did on the normal threemeal schedule. They also got the same amount of exe&&e. Although the snacks weren’t identical, the volunteers took in roughly equivalent amounts of fats, proteins, sugars, dietary fibre and other essential nut-

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Village food 17 ’ times a day? Seventeen snacks a day might seem an impossible price to pay for good health. After all, people in a busy work environment often have trouble fitting lunch into their schedules. However, Jenkins maintains frequent snacks can be as good for a business as they are for an individual. “This has already been looked at in Czechoslovakia,” he says. “Before the war, a shoe manufacturer had his workers take regular snack breaks and found both their productivity and concentration increased.” Despite this precedent, the scientists hope to find a more socially acceptable way of bringing down cholesterol levels. Currently, they are seeking grants to study the health benefits of snacking, but on fewer snacks. This initial study was dnne on men for convenience, Jenkins explains. To include women ean having to control would for di r”ferences in cholesterol metabolism between men and women, as well as differences between pre and p.ztmenopausal women. Further studies should include both men and women with high cholesterol levels, he says. Jenkins’ original study was financed by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

by Pippa 8. Wysong Reprinted from Canadian Science News A technique that squeezes up to 33% of the oil out of peanuts but allows the nuts to keep their shape has been developed by an Agriculture Canada researcher. Peanut lovers will be able to satisfy their nutty craving and avoid unwanted calories. About 70% of the calories in peanuts are in the oil. The process, called supercritical extraction, uses highpressure carbon dioxide gas to remove oil from the nuts. “The idea is to keep the shape and integrity of the kernel intact so the product can be used as a lowcalorie, snacking product,” says Dr. Chand Passey, a research scientist with Agriculture Canada in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. Passey says one of the big advantages of the process is that it results in not just one, but two marketable products: lowcalorie nuts and high-quality peanut oil. Current methods to extract the oil involve crushing the peanuts. Once they are crushed and most of the oil removed, the fine meal remaining is “not worth anything except for use as animal feed,” Passey says. Using conventional met hods, “if you start with $1000 worth of peanuts, you end up with about $1200 worth of product: oil plus the meal,” he says. By using the new supercritical extraction method on $1000 worth of peanuts, “the return would be over $2000.” As well, “the solvent that we are using, the super-critical carbon dioxide, is very safe.” It doesn’t hurt the environment and will not affect human health, he adds. Atmospheric pressure at sea level is 101.3 kilopascals (kPa),

but to get - .. the oil oui of the nuts, the carbon dioxide gas must be put under a pressure of 41,200 to 48,100 kPa. Such pressures occur at a depth of three to four kilometres in the ocean, says Passey. At pressures like this, ‘7 he gas acttially flows like a liquid,” P.assey sa.ys. “You can see through it like a liquid and it is -as dense as water.” It is gases in this state which are referred to as “super-critical fluids.” However, super-critical fluids still behave like a gas, in that they will fill any volume to which they have access, he says. For example, if a glass is halffilled with water, the water simply sits in the bottom half of the glass. But a gas or a supercritical fluid would expand to fill the whole glass. In Passey’s process, nuts are placed in a vessel with carbon dioxide. The pressure is increased until the gas becomes a super-critical fluid. Under the high pressures, the oil in the nuts starts to ooze out. ‘*There is a tendency for the oil to dissolve it self in the super-critical fluid,” Passey says. The carbon dioxide fluid is then removed and placed in another vessel, where the pressure is decreased. Any nut oil that is contained in the fluid is separated out and the nuts sitting in the first vessel are ready for consumption. Treated peanuts are “crisi)er and crunchier than regular peanuts,” says Passey. Because the oil has been removed, they are a little whiter, too-but that can be changed by dry-roasting. The technique can also be used to remove caffeine from coffee beans and cholesterol from egg produtcs. Agrjculture Canada has applied for a patent for the prowess.

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Cuban scientists are learning how to turn sugar by-products into valuable pharmaceuticals, with help from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa. Drug compounds extracted from sugar- byproducts, now treated as wastes, could save the Cuban gnvernment millions of dollars in imported drugs. They would also give the country a significant new industry. “This technology is being developed for Cuba, but it could also be applied in any country where sugar cane is being produced,” says Dr. James Putney, of the chemistry department at UBC. With sugar beets now providing the sugar used in many countries, the sugar cane industry in Cuba and other developing countries is in bad shape. The Soviet Union has been paying premium prices to Cuba for sugar in order to’shore up the industry. “The entire economy of the country is dependent on better >utilization of their major industry,” says Putney. After sugar cane juice is removed from the cane, it undereoes further orocessinE to derive I

sugar. One by-product is an oil which contains eight p?r cent by weight of phytostesolsprecursors in the production of steroids. Steroid drugs include birth control pills, cortisone, the inhaler drugs used by asthmatics, and prednisone (used in cancer treatments), besides the much-publicized steroids illicitly used by athletes. Scientists in the chemistry department at UBC were in a particularly good position to assist the Cubans in developing this technology. For several years they have been studying the feasibility of extracting similar products from “tall oil,” a byproduct of the forest industry.

Now, there are three Cuban scientists at UK, learning the for phytosterol technology production. Putney explains that Cuba has everything it needs now to go into phytosterol production: a biotechnology reserach industry and a government-controlled pharmaceutical industry which could take the Canadian technology and scale it up to commercial operation. “All the sugar-growing countries now have the opportunity to get rid of the practice of buying steroid compounds with riollars they don’t have, and make these products for the’ir nwn use, p’erhaps even selling them to other countries in the future,” says Putney.

Whether it comes from trees or from sugar cane, the phytosterol is treated with bacteria in a multi-step fermentation process which eventually produces a single compound from which hundreds of steroid drugs can then be made. Putney ha& been working with scientists at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Havana for several years under a small CUSO grant to help Cuba start up a biotechnology industry. A few years ago, he suggested to the IDRC that phytosterol production_ from sugar cane was a possibility.

Putney is also anxious to see the Canadian forest industry get into phytosterol production from tall oil. At the present time, tall oil is used to produce paint comp,ounds, but the fraction cnntaining phytosterols is either burned as fuel, or turned inlo asphalt, “With tall oil selling for about $100 per tonnft, and the steroid compound that could be made from it selling at $160/kg ($160,000 per tonne), it doesnit require economic genius to see that the Canadian forest industry is missing out on a major opportunity.”

Mennonite by Gaby Bright Special to the Imprint May HHZ, Conrad Grebel College and UW’s own literary journal The New Quarterly held an impressive conference on Mennonite writers in Canada. In cunjunction with the conference The New Quarterly published a special double issue celebrating Mennonite writers. Guest editor Hildi Froese Tiessen, professor of English and Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel, says “There are at present probably feur literary subjects receiving as much attention internationally as what we Canadians have tended to call ethnic literature. Among the minority-culture literary communities in Canada, few, it could be argued, are at present more productive - or more vis-

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ible as a literary community 4 then the Mennonitesl This soon became obvious with important Canadian writers like Rudy Weibe, Di Brandt, Patrick Friesen, and Magdalene Redekop in attendance. Yet s,uch cultural recognition was not always the case. In private conversation, Andreas Schroeder could hardly contain his enthusiasm, saying “There’s never been anything like ‘this before” and further suggesting that a 1950s or ’60s conference of Mennonite writers would have consisted of three or four people meeting in a phone booth. The notion of Mennonite writer as an oxymoron was sugges ted several times throughout the conference. As Schroeder explained, in the Mennonite community “writers are liars, like the title of Hildi’s book

nd Rascals “, When, as a der announced his the church he

them would define in religious, others in ethnic terms, and many in both,” says Froese Tiessen. One of the-main themes emerging from the cg:nference recognized these tiritershs voices

ante consider themselves, at least in the broadest sense, Mennonite - a designation some of

grou;ds. She further identified similarities in structure of the short story and low German oral

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writes in Canada. It’s a polyphonic voice.”

Privileged to have a few brief words with one of Canada’s leading post modern writers at the New Quarterly’s literary conference last weekend, here’s what Imprint learned from the man from the prairie. When asked where things were heading for literature

N(lt shying from politics he is no fan of free trade. “I’m very skeptical when the big guy makes a deal with the small one. I’ve never seen’a small guy ,win. Economics are very complicated, so I fail to see hbw someone can approach it with such a simple answer.”

tradition: plain language, humour, suspense. The oral quality of Mennonite writing was evident at this conference in structure and subject matter, Magdalene Redekop and her @ter Elizabeth Falk write in response to each others work, a cooperative question and an&q style, comparing their differitig perspectives of family life. Much of Patrick Friesen’s poetry also evolved from fatiily history as well .as jokes and anecdotes. Andreas Schroeder wrote in dialogue form and dialect. In discussion, Rudy Weibe suggested that in the contemporary Canadian literary scene many. oral traditions are shifting towards literature. Low German is just slow getting there, This oral tradition is the new direction in Canadian literature.

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era. While other ‘gene&ions of writers h&e cad. previous ridged styles of narrative to rebel and experiment against, today there are no norms. Everything is open to the writer, land this kind of freedom is paralyzing sametimes.” “There are also fewer places that publish unknown authors. .I would advise what b.p. did. Start your own small magazines and handouts. Today’s desk top publishing is just the thing for

that.” “It’s a& hard to know how to survive as an artist. You have to ciime to terms with a writer’s life before you c.an really succeed. It used to be you could go into journalism and then it was writersin-residence positions but both of these have petered out. Free lance writing is employing a lotof writers now, but how soqn till it becomes saturated?‘,’ AS for the future, “I’m excited about the narrative forms corn-

ing out of the Pacific rim countries. Hong Kohg, the PhilipThe pines, even Australia. electronic medium has spe,ed every thing up and brought these new voices closer. Ease of travel has helped too, I would hardjy have dreamed to write about a foreign land, but now . . . people can go to the far East and write about experiences first hand. Today we have an information overload.”

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Kroetsch believes it is moving toward decentralization. “Toronto is no longer the centre for publishing. There are lots of small, competent presses out west which ire putting out very good material. Writers no longer need to make the pilgrimage to Toronto, they can usually stay where they are.” “One advance we’re seeing in the story is thegrowth of the dialogue story. I think multiculturalism has had a lot to do with this. New approaches towards narrative are affectinE the

“I got started on Chaucer. I enjoyed the humour. It has always been central to my work to have humoue. I also liked the way he used ordinary life as writing materiab That is something else I find central”. “Who I really admired, though, was (Joseph) Conrad. Of contemporary writers I read as peers Wiebe, Ondonjate, Bowery but I’m also interested in a lot of the newer writers.” As for advice to young writers, “It’s difficult today. First they ex’ist in the post-post modern

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‘Boffo Brahms! _. Brahms’ Birthday Monday, May 7,1990 The Music Room, 57 Young St. W.

by Mavis Dixon Imprint Staff

Going to a concert at the KW Chamber Music Society’s Music

Room feels like crashing a private party of music aficionados. -Inspite of ‘Dr. Jan Narvesson’s efforts, The Music Room has remained one of Waterloo’s best

kept secrets. With an audience capacity, of 80, The Music Room will never lose its informal intimacy. It’s unpretentious perfection as a chamber music venue continues to attract International celebrities and equally talented upand-comers. A case in point is the KWCMS Piano Quartet who performed for the 177th anniversary of Johannes Brahms’ birthday. The youthful ensemble of KW musicians performed Brahms’ Piano Trio in B& op.6 and Piano Quartet in c-, op.60. The trio was first sketched when Brahms was in his twenties and at the height of &his ardour for Clara Schumann. He dramatically revised the trio 35 years later, shortening and cIarifying it but it remains a moving work. Pianist Syd BulmanFleming tightened up his playing dramatically over the course of the performance, effectively revealing some of the rhythmic intricacies characteristic of Brahms’ writing. Virginia Chen Wells’ rich tone made the most of the thematic material particularly the longer lyrical theme that fills the Adagio with passion. In that same movement, the cello is given a beautiful theme in g- that Chris Sharpe could have infused with stronger emotion without sacrifing his wonderful pitch. Filled with Sttrrm w-d cfrnng, the Quartet in c- again reflects the despair Brahms felt over the

frustrated love that- was so influential on his music in his twenties. Again, revisions later in life transformed this piece into a model of balance and conciseness. The beautiful second melody of the Allegro no troppo was deftly handled by the quartet as it passed back and forth amoung the voices civer four variations. It reappears in fragments throughout the remainder of the piece, a opint that was clearly brought out by Bulman-Fleming. Vio.list Margaret Metcalfe joined the group to complete the quartet. Although seemingty nr)t as strong as the original trio, the viola was a welcome addition. The enhanced sound made a significant difference to the third movement (Andante) in which the players seemed to open their hearts to what is essentially a love song. Dissappointingly, the quartet did not honour us with an encore. I suppose after two hours in rather cramped seating, most of the audience members were happy to leave, knowing that their party would resume soon enough with the next KWCMS Music Room Concert. Interested music lovers can find out who is appearing at Thf? Music Room by checking oncampus bulletin boards. Sere-, nab string Trio with James Mason ORoboe will be appearing May 27. Tickets are available at Humanities Box Office, WordsWorth Books and at the . door.

Ian, oh. Ian It was on this very date (May 181, one deacde ago, that IanCurtis, lead vocalist for seminal postpunk Manchester band Joy Division, hanged himself in’ his basement, in a fit of depression over his failing marriage and ailing health. It is believed that before he died Curtis laid a Vodun curse on his bandmates condemning them to a lifetime of pla.ying soulless

insipid synthesizer music. However his scheme backfired when New Order grew tn attract more teenage girl fans than would ever have stood for Curtis neuroses. Above, Curtis is pictured rehearsing his final leap of faith, and inset--is an artist’s conception of what Curtis m&hi loclk like today, had he lived.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter of a literature student’s sense of professional.obligation. Imagine my relief, not to mention the dismay felt by scholars who find a certain romance in words like “problematization” and who delight in the impenetrable, to find that Vineland is actually Pynchon’s most accessible novel since Lot 49.

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 385 pages $23.95

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I once heard an English professor of mine make paraIlels between the careers of Thomas Pynchon and James Joyce, contending that Pynchon’may be to postmodern American literature what Joyce was to modernist British literature. The first three books of each bear out a similar pattern:. a short book, fairly modest in scope, that was highly readable (The Crying of Lot 49 and Dubliners respectively]; a more ambitious and complex, but still accessible novel (V and A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man): a magnum opus, a great, sprawling, intimidating, impossibly convoluted yet intricately and masterfully structured, oft-started and rarely finished work of probably insane genius (Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow). The conjecture was that the fourth Thomas Pynchon novel would be his Finnegan’s Wake. The speculation was a fascinating one, and one that seemed befitting of literature’s second most famous recluse, and most of us prepared ourselves for the worst: wasting weeks or months of utterly uncomprehending reading of erudite gibberish out

But of course, we’re speaking in relative terms here. The plot takes an almost linear tack for the first hundred pages or so, and the prose is actually more reminiscent of someone like Don DeLillo or Martin Amis than a literary crackpot. VineIand is the saga of middle-aged’ erstwhile acidjpothead Zoyd Wheeler, who could just as easily have stepped out of a Frank Zappa song as live in the Pacific northwest setting of Pynchon’s novel. Early on, we see a mental landscape every bit as burnt out as poor, beleaguered Mother Earth, apparently a new concern of Pynchon’s, Momentarily at least, alarm bells go off:- this book is about something in addition to being easy to follow. Brand names and registered trademarks litter the pages of Vine/and like pop cans at the side of the road; Pat Sajak is already [the novel takes place in the formerly ominous 1984) an integral part of everyday consciousness; Hector Zuniga, an old nemesis of Zoyd’s, terrorizes Zoyd after escaping from Tubaldetox, sort of a methodone clinic for Tubefreeks suffering from the advanced stages of television addiction. It’s hardly a new idea, but Pynchon sees American

harmless, clear sheet of candy. We also get to meet Zoyd’s wise-beyond-her-years teenage daughter, Prairie, and follow her and her parent’s nightmare of a boyfriend, Isaiah, as his band, Billy Barf and The Vomitones, stumbles through Italian favourites at the wedding of shady character Ralph Wayvone’s son. This is the last point at which Vineland really made sense to me. t It’s not unusual for novels, such as Ulysses, to have a difficult, but ultimately circular, self-resolving plots, but Pynchon’s plots are more tangential. New characters are introduced on virtually every page, and main characters suddenly drop from sight as if Pynchon forgets their existence’ wrapped up as he is on recounting the apocryphal histories of the unlikely assortment of eccentrics which appear from out of the Oregon mist like a particularly confusing, non sequitur-riddled episode of Twin Peaks. Sounds like a nightmare, but Vineland lends credence to the theory that perhaps Pynchon really is an insane genius: it all works. Of course, it can be next to impossible to reorient yourself in the story if you’ve had the book closed for a day or more, and you may, like me, cease to care about the progression of the plot at all. Pynchon’s writing is simpIy entertaining and bracing: hip and jingoistic, but not obnoxious; energetic and witty, and still genial. This one I might actually finish.

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society as a completely desensitized dystopia where television, advertising, and the popular media as a whole have rendered the collective American cerebrum to a filmy grey, pulpy mass of a watery consistency. Even perform insanity lecting checks, jumping

poor Zoyd; who has to a public display of in order to continue colhis mental disability has to coordinate his through the windnw nf

a local tavern-while wearing a dress and brandishing a chainsaw with television camera crews to give them enough advance notice to ensure they’ll cover the event. Even the once sacred realms of insanity and individualism have been coqmodified and turned into cheap, titillating spectacle, Zoyd is further chagrined and humiliated to learn that the window he jumps through is not even made of real glass, but a

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Public Eye Brian Fa wcet t 3arperXollins 256 pages

by Paul Done Imprint staff By coining the deceptively pastoral and comforting term, ‘Global Village” in his groundbreaking media studies of the sixties, Marshall McLuhan did a great disservice to the field he helped found. Makes it sound so warm and cozy . . . downright Ftlzzy doesn’t it? In fact, the expansion of media output and the invisible web of electronic connections has been a major factor in producing the rapid dehumanization of the environment in which we live. ‘Rapid transfer of electronic information is necessary in order to increase the efficiency and influence of multi-national economics. The dissemination of American television and printed itnages produce the materialistic urge within the populations of non-capitalistic nations. Urge to democracy ? Only if democracy translates in to western consumer goods. The overwhelming crush of data which characterizes the electronic age makes it ever more difficult to compose a useful picture of the planet upon which we live. Useful data is lost within

subjective process, different people will usually produce differing interpretations, but the process is important in itself to move toward an understanding of the problem. The dual narrative format induces the same sensation of auto-critique as the artifices of French New Wave cinema. The necessary jumps between narrative streams and backwards page-flipping ensure the reader’s constant awareness of the fiction of the medium (as opposed to the habit of numbness which is induced by the medium of fiction). Unlike most postmodern analysis which expresses sympathy for the ideas of corporate conspi-

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the glut of detritus. Basic causeeffect and motivational explanations of world patterns are obscured by smokescreens of PR, spin-doctoring and barefaced deceit. Within this world, the gap between human interpretations of events and their reality increases daily. The world is become dehumanized ever more

in a dark room, using only a pencil-beam flashlight. Fawcett uses a dual narrative structure which spilt each page into an upper and a lower section. The upper text recounts a series of random events, like the flashlight, illuminating random facets of our state, in which the protagonists Public Eye and the Akron Design Centre. Respectiveiy, they are the guardian of the public interest and a supracorporate entity which distills the worst in corporate and gpvernmental behaviour. The lower text is the “confext ualizat ion” of the pieces (if information gleaned in the first process. Assembling the fragments of data into a c.omprehensible structure is essentially a

rapidly. The structures and institutions which we have created grow ever more incomprehensible to the individual. The only immortal entities on this planet are corporations: their creation under corporate defines them as unendable by time. Within Public Eye, Brian Faw-

racy or societal decay normally comes off as either a shrill, hysterical disciple of doom or an inveterate cynic. To Fawcett’s credit, he comes off as neither, he balances a finedly-honed sense of impending doom with a sly sense of humour. The world is in a dire state. We are rapidly becoming ever m(lre distanced from the conglomeration of instilutions which form human society. The forces which motivate action in this world are ever more distant from the masses of people from whom they claim to draw their power. PtrhLc Eye is perhaps too sofl, as ex-hippies are wont to be, hut anything which makes an attempt to clarify the direness of the human state is worth a read.

More books: crime, comix, crap The Bourne Ultimatum I Robert Ludlum * Random House 609 pages

by David Thomson Imprint staff Ludlum’s latest doorstop is a little over 600 pages and is the third adventure/spy book about Jason Bourne, who was part of an iflegal assassination squad funded by the CIA in Vietnam. He was recruited by the CIA after Vietnam to track down and

Vietnam. However, as is usually the case, the book is not the ultimate reading experience that the jacket-writer would have you believe. Having read numerous other spy/adventure novels, I have become annoyed at apathetic authors who, instead of writing their hero out of a situation, simply have him “sense” a presence or “instinctively” turn around and knock out the bad guys. Although this is a perennial problem in writings of this genre, it seems to be overly noticeable in this book. One might expect a top-rank assassin to be able to have these type of instincts, but “suspending one’s disbelief’ has its ,limits.

kill another assassin, known as The other major flaw that Carlos the Jackal. really surprised -me was LudIn The Ultimatum, thirteen lum’s apparent inability or book-years later, both the killers unwillingness to make the charare over fifty, and Carlos (the acters sound like normal people+ ‘bad’ assassin) has learned he is - rather than putting quotation dying. Carlos wants to be known marks around selected bits of in the underworld as the best in text. I concede that he does a his profession when he dies, but good job of phonetic translating as long as Jason Bourne (the when he decides we wili meet *good’ assassin) is still alive, people with accents, but\ overall, there will be doubt. Jason alsa most of the English-speaking realizes that he will always have characters employ the same synto be looking behind his back tax as the text, which is until

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Voila the plot! The story revolves around these two people trying to out-think the other, in an attempt to set an ambush and kill him, From this, the usual myriad of sub-plots and subsub-plots spin off, one of them being that mbny top-level U.S. figureheads were involved in the illegal operation back in

A Chill Rain in January L.R. Wright Macmillan of Canada 273 pages

by Stacey Lobin

I’m in a reading rut, All I ever read are mystery and detective stories. The only mystery and detective stories I read are by P.D. lames, Ruth Rendell, and Martha Grimes. Do you detect a trend? All female, all entertaining, all devastatr ingly good. When I saw this new novel (her seventh) by Canadian writer LX. Wright, I thought to myself “Come on, live a little - take a risk on reading a new author. Look, she’s even won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best mystery novel, The Suspect (her fourth). And hey, critics even utter her name in the same breath as your favourites.

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Even with its aforementioned flaws, I did like the book overall, but not as much as the first book, The Bourne Identify. Although one could easily read this novel by itself and not lose a lot of the characters’ relevant histories, I would suggest that you pick up The Bourne Identity first and work through to this volume.

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i an improbabIe mixture of paranoid ywn&sters, inane einimds, and insane storyhes, called Woom County.” Like aU things Brilliant, however,2 wasshort-livti (does this explain the centurimM mediocrity of”Peanuts”and”Mary W&P’); last summer,Breathed dec&d toendthe strip and continue with a weekly colourcomic,featuringdifferent (but

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Come on, take a chance.” I-‘u _ So I did. Bad mistake. Wright can write well, and it’s refreshing to read a Canadian novel. It’s great to read about Vancouver and Calgary (although I’ve never been to either) and thrilling to havea Mounlieas the bloodhound, a very d6wn to earth, humane detective, It’s wonderful to have an immediate, common bond with him. Wright also handles her charactefization very well - although not as well as she could. The dialogue is a bit stilted, too. And she’s not very good at generating suspenseful climates. And the plot. I think the worst thing about this book is the plot. You can see everything coming miles, and miles away. Every now and then Wright introduces a new twist, but out of all the possible consequences of the new element, the one, that you guess will happen does happen. Eventually, you begin to wonder what the next insane wrench in the works will be, and you’re right In the end, the book is a chore to read. You know exactly how it’s going to end, but since you’ve read so far, you feel that you might as well finish it,.. well, there’s no need to disappoint yourself. just avoid reading it in the first place.

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anymore. It’s weary, it’s listless, it’s alrno9t, hut not quite, dead. HOW sad. . However, there are still many dud&s and gig@ to be had in HIPPY Tmils: Opus (that short, verhose penguin) gets his nose liposuctioned, with disasm results; Bill theCatgetsabr&traq4ant-you’ll never guess WIWW brain; bbud

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the father???; and Steve DalIas is unlucky in love, with nasty consequences. The strip whds down . . . the charactersscramble for jobs and say tjwh gcwdhyes. 1 know, it’s only a comic strip, but there’s stiIl a sorrowfulpoigMncyabautitall.*..dang,I21 missthething.Ho+vsad.

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Chris’ words, they “blew ‘im off the stage” (sorry, Fiddlehead),

lots and lots 6’ people. And like R.E.M., the Aeroplanes have achieved a balance between artiness and rock ‘n’ roll: this is perhaps the secret of their success.

Anyway+ if there is a God in Heaven, Swagger looks to be the record that will bring the Aeroplanes the attention they deserve. Rolling out of the speakers with an insistent, expressive guitar riff, “Jacket Hangs” - the opening cut on Swagger - is an instantly arresting way to begin an album. Happily, the rest of the LP duly lives up to this standard, only occasionally slumping into mere listenability. Stacked up on one side are the purely thrilling rockers: “Anti-Pretty,” “Jacket Hangs, ” “Love Come Round.” Stacked up on the other are the wistful, lilting {though never boring) balladsi “World View Blue, *’ “What It Is,” “Careful Boy.” The slow stuff ranges from dreamy [“Weightless”) to creepy (“Cat-Scan Hist’rv”). It’s difficult to really describe the Blue Aeroplans’ sound. Many many guitars, but they’re all lightweight enough that it never seems like overkill. Folky melodies that still have a kick. Arty lyrics, half-sung, half-spoken in Gerard Langley’; earnest style:

by Derek Weiier Imprint staff The Blue Aeroplanes, a manymembered British band that’s been quietly making records for years now, But remain somewhat underhyped. while you may not hear much about ‘em, the hype you do hear is of the top-grade variety. The new LP Swagger has been scfundky acclaimed in the British music tabloids, and Imprint’s very own Chris Wodskou saw them open for the Jazz Butcher in the U.K. last summer. In

If you ve read about the Blue Aer& planes at all, you know that this band has been compared to R.E.M. an awful lot. Indeed, it’s a comparison they’ve encouraged themselves; they’ve described Swagger as their version of Document, and they opened for R.E.M. on their U.K. tour last spring. (If the British music press is to be believed, the Aero-planes came very close to stealing the show from Stipe, Buck, et a2 a few nights.) .If the comparison is valid, it’s because The Blue Aeroplanes, like R&M., have% discovered a sound that is distinctive and fresh, not quite like any other, but still has the potential to be adored by contenting themselves seveial thousand cop masterpieces, ready to

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by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff The annals of rock and roll are filled with party classics and straight goodtime rock stings that bombard our collective consc

The Chills fit their ability to he chills. Such past rod’ [simpIy one of the zs ever). “Wet Blanket”, _ -hill Blu& and “House With red Rooms” could bring any to its knees in seconds: this is a ry private, personal music, but one that shares an intimacy with its listeners that few bands can rival. With I Submarine I _. 1 Bells, F.The Chills-c enter the domestic torum atter years OI

W”Famili&it~ easoned with r hooks that raise -- -. ing echelons of the one above the merely t on “I Soar” and 2 and Deliquesce”, The Chills “deep into their mossy wells of ation and turn out something lutely stunning: the sound of moody atmospherics unsettling,, embedded in the tantalizingly familiar. Usually, music so seductively perfect distracts me almost completely from caring at all about the lyrics, but The Chills’ songs are wholes the way few bands’ are. The elegiac title track, which sounds suspiciously like “Good Night” from The Beatles’ white album, and the brooding “Don’t Be- Memory”, the token

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have a spirit of desolation that speaks through the arresting music and the striking clarity and lucidity of the lyrics, Phillips has never been one for excessive, flashy wordplay, and he’s never been the least bit abashed about putting his dirty laundry and most intimate secrets on public display, but he’s not one to. shout about it, either,

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All in all, a wonderful album, Swagger offers new wonder and insight .with every listen. Can you say that about Mudhoney or Louder Than Love?

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by Rhonda Riche by Trevor Blair Imprint staff Cave has played many roles in his many years as a gloomy gothgod: in the Birthday Party he was the violent bard, screaming for vengeance at the traumas of alcohol. With the Bad Seeds he’s con@olled his stagger and over the last few LPs managed to drift -I ?-I- LL- ---lLyrically, “The Ship Song” isn’t as impressive as, say, “The Mercy Seat” where Nicholas wove physical and spirtual damnation into a glorious doubleentendre of conviction, With “The Ship Song”, Nick is an explorer, navigating the emo-

by Derek Wailer Lmprint staff File this one under guilty pleasures. I’ve been looking forward to this album for a year, ever since I heard the tune “Never,” that’s turned up as the leadoff track for Side Two. Those crazy bongoes in the background, plus that ringing, anthemic, oh so ootoo-ish guitar line, had me ii opping even though - given the dopiness of the lyrics - 1[ real1 should have known better. “S il ine On” - a very early House of Love song also whetted my appetite for this, their second LP+ Same pattern: the power of the music compensated for the banality of the words. Then, not long ago, PolyCram released a four-song EP featuring the. first domestic single from the album, “I Don’t Know Why I Love You.” It’s a truly magnificent summer _ pop song that

should. be blaring from car radios ‘cross the land, and would be if there truly was a God. Also featured on the EP was a toofaithful cover of the Velvet Underground’s “I Can’t Stand It”. Phs a couple tunes that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers LP. Which brings us to “Beatles and the Stones”, the latest UK single from the album. And a horrid affair it is: musically limpwristed, lyrically lunkheaded. [“The Beatles and the Stones, they made it O.K. to he alone . . . “ Jesus.) That’s it for the record’s most notable moments, then. The rest of The House of Love just sort of fades into the background. Most of the tunes are either acollstic folk-tinged ballads, or else British guitar rock that’s become so popular af late, Much of the material here in the latter style is eminentby listenable, but not quite as exciting or captivating by Stacsy Lobin as some of the competition, like Imprint staff the Stone Roses. All in all, not a very unforgetIt’s like this.,. table LP. But it does have a trio of All this morning I was on the great solid, enjoyable singles: “Shine On,” “ I Don’t Know Why I I phone to these big corporate dudes. I’d ask for the department Love You,” and “Never,” Plus I wanted, and then the receptionyou get “Beatles and the Stones,” which will always be worth a ists would put me on hold. I’d sit there, listening to incredibly guffaw.

Time helps put things into erspective. I don’t like the MonKee’s TV show, but I did when I was six, I get the subtle innuendoes in Warner Brothers’ cartoon’s ndw [by the way did you, tional geography of love. catch the Cartoon All-stars sail your ships around me, come against drugs? Bugs Bunny sayburn your bridges down.. , We’ll ing.no to drugs just like Nancy make a little history baby, everReagan! Sheesh). I don’t even ytime you come around. I* “ The ‘think Paul Done is .a goof anymore. After the first couple of spins .- qlure soorn1ng. of Mudhoney’s efionymoue LP, I It‘s really not as much fun as was almost convinced that it was stinky. I loved their tune “The Mercy Seat” or “Deanna”, but as with most of his body of “Touch Me, I’m Sick” so much that I put it on my top ten of 1989, work, the same holds true for even though it was released in “The Ship Song”: some of Cave’s 1988. I saw them live and was softest moments are also his impressed by the sheer power of strongest. the songs that would comprise Mudhoney. So when the same songs failed to hit me over the head with the same wallop as their live versions, 1 was a mite disappointed. But now, a month later, I have realized that although it’s not as instantly likable as SuperfuzzBigmuff, it works as an album, not just a collectioil of songs. ’ Mudhoney has a Sonics versus boring renditions of songs like Creedence Clearwater Revival “Back in the USSR,” “Girl from kind of feel to it. The Sonics are Ipanema,” and “Farmer Tan.” If clearly winning on tracks like there’s one thing 1 don’t iike, it’s “You Cot It” and “This Gift,” but MUZAK. And that’s what The C.C.R. have the upper hand by Christians are all. about. the swampy closing trio of “By I’m not lying. Take away the Her Own Hand,” “When Tomwords, and all that’s left is a morrow Hits,” and “Dead Love.” bland mixture of tepid melodies It’s also evocative of the TV and soulless rhythm. All right, show TwinPeaks, which is set in there’s one song, “Community of the same‘ state that Mudhoney Spirit” that kind of kicks, but hails from [and I don’t just mean that’s it, The rest is a big, middle the same geographic state of the road AM pop radio bore. It either) I even has a pretentious, neoSo now that I’ve had some time psychedelic artsy cover - it’sa to reconsider, Mudhaney is a “Like, wow, let’s all dress alike great album, once I put it on my and pose in front of an LSD turnt’able, I must listen through swirly backdrop while making every song from beginning to obscure gestures” kind of thing. I end. While we’re on the subject, hate it. And anyway, it’s been vegetables are pretty good, in done before, fact, they’re great.

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by Trevor Blair Imprint staff After the Stranglers ninth album Dreamtime, released in ‘87, the band seemed in a fairly respectable position: they were one of the few groups remaining from the days of punk, they’d mastered the pop format and had earned themselves the title of one of England’s most successful singles bands. Since then they’ve puttered around, releasing a live album, a Kinks cover, a compilation and, more recently, a remake of their first singte “Grip”. Finally their next LP proper is out and egad!

There’s been talk lately that Stanley Jordan is nothing but a coaster. Sure, maybe his days as jazz innovator are over, maybe it’s 1990. Their 10th platter, suitin this day and age of “world ably titled%“at first seems like beat” and raw energy Jordan’s a collection of unreleased B- polished, precise guitar style sides. After a few listens, the might seem passe. Still, there is a album’s carefree merits begin to quiet power to this album, a dark show; it does however pale next edge, an intellectual anger. to the sublime Dreamtime and Cornucopia is, in part, an should haveti probably been anthology of Afro-American called Sleepwalking or some- popular music. Side one kicks off thing effortless like that, A with the legendary John Colgroup name-change to The trane’s “Impressions,” side two Snugglers wouldn’t be out of with perhaps the best political place either. pop song of all time, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On.” Over They wander through Ques- I the course of the LP, Jordan samtion Mark and the Mysterians’ ples liberally from every thing “96 Tears” as they do through most of the first side, Not until Special mention for the Side Two do we hear the “Lucy in album’s closing track “Never To the Sky- Benifit of Mr. Kite” Look Back”, its uzzling beauty ripoffs and really start having (“I had,a black s R irt but I wasn’t fun. We must remember that these one”] sums up a coming of age and then some for guys now guys are pretty old. Appropriately fo sounds like a bunch of referred to as Punkasauraus Rex. old guys enjoying life, having The Stranglers would like to paid off their houses and give you the big warm hug that is attained a reasonable standard their 10th record. They say “hey, of living. They refer to the punk buy this” and they mean it , . . years as “very funny, very, very maaan. funny.”

Cornucopia shows Stanley Jordan’s music not only growins out of its usual jazz confines, bul also soaring I. to to new height2 emotionally,

from blues to funk. The title track, however, is pure jazz, featuring a sinous solo charged with an urgency that cannot be described. -

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The Gift Shop and Bookstore will be open Saturday, May 26 llam to 4pm called ban&. Songs such as “The Excuse Polka, ” “The Budget Song” and’ “The Meech Lake Accordion” indicate some dissatisfaction with the current Conservative government and are surprisingly amusing, Some songs are either just plain filler, or could be interpreted as an expression of the sense of confusion, heIpIessness, and hopelessness that Canadians feel about the government,

by Dew Thomson Imprhht Staff The Sufferin’ Catfish are, well, interesting, to use the cop-out word of the year, These Catfish aren’t suffering too badly, which surprised me. I suppose another word to describe them would be unique. Their music does not fall into any of the vague mainstream categories that I am aware of land someone will undoubtedly correct me if I am wrong]. about, attacking The lyrics jum things that annoy t 1 e songwriters, such

aa Mulrcmey, acid rain, end talevisIon evangelists. They are similar to the lyrics I--- of many - speed/thrash metal mo-

One of the best songs is entitled “Hockey Night In Canada“ and is sung to the HNIC theme song. An example of the lyrics: I’m gonna I’m gonna

spear Savard knock down Neeley I’m gonna do some high-sticking

clnd butt-ending tonight ecetera, More tffurt wus put into the lyrioa than the music, which ueuany consists of an acoustic guitar and/or a harmonica, and occasional use of a keyboard. Interestin duo, but not my

idea af music, I do fi ave to give them. credit for the humor cantent of the recording, if nothins elea, aqd that’s where the ratinn comes”froml

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ier who carried it in for the major. Chartier was also given the Ray Owens Memorial Award as Waterloo star of the game.

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i@ O&C 20 vs Windsor Waterloo ,i&&6n its fourth straight game in a +?$~ 21-16 triumph over thethe Windsor JFsncerS and clinched fourth ‘&d final OUAA West playoff spot in the process. Each team got a major on their first posses,,s.ionto knot the game at seven. .i“‘Flay stayed fairly eyen to the half, with Waterloo having a IT14edge. UW mqjors were scored by Hayden Vialva ahd Brian Raynor. In th;e $econd\,h If, the Warriors just held ontq t e lead and Tchir kicked anotbe field goal to win it. Lenart tq i w for 12 first downs, completing\13 pf 21 pass attempts.

‘Since Knight set foot on the UW campus in February of 1988, everything that he has touched, turned to gold. His knowledge of the game and seemingly magical inspiration fueled the Warriors to their recent success. Here is a recap of last year’s Cinderella season.

Waterloo’s first major of 1989 at a:28 of the fourth quarter, to add to a 25 yard field goal by Tchir. But, unfortunately the passing expertise of Western pivot Chris Gaffney was .too Much for the Warrior secondary.

Sept. 16 at Tohnto: Normally the strongest unit in the Waterloo crew is the defensive line. Unfortunately that was not the case as the Toronto Varsity Sept. 2vs Lsurier:Both Waterloo Blues marched through gaping and the Golden Hawks had just holes in the Warridr line en route finished tough training camps to a 24-7 thumping at Varsity and -capped them off with a i Stadium.

..I: Sept?ao at York: l%e embarass-‘ ing 33’game losing streak of the Warriors fin-lly cam> to a close with a 32-g tr uncing of the Yeomen in North ‘ark. The halftime score stood bt g-3 for UW. Defence and sit Aal teams won it for them. Warerloo’s ground attack was led b,r .Richard Chen

Paul Kjlby, and Blair Greenly ke t UW’s hopes alive. The highlig R t tif Laurier’s offence was a remarkable 46 yard field goal into the wind. But the winning play for Waterloo came midway through the third quarter. From the Golden Hawks 24 yard line, Lenart passed the ball up the middle fairly deep to Tom Chart-

Ott, 27 at Western Since Waterloo finished in fourth place, they had to take on the division champion Mustangs in one of two semi final matchups. The dream season for the Warriors came to an abrupt end as Western trounced the Cinderella crew, 49-7, before a crowd of 6500 at J.W. Little Stadium in London. As the long shot underdog, the Warriors had nothing to lose. Western

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ier Cup and, with it, the national championship. Lenart ended his fine five yeJar career at Waterloo by scoring the team’s only major. He brought his squad to within scoring distance and then hopped’over his own linemen for the touchdalwn.

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Hockey is dead The views and opinions expressed in this coJumn are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Imprint as a whole. by Rich Nichol Imprint staff After reading a recent newspaper article about changes in the style of hockey over the past 20 years, 1 decided to write an opinion piece of my own on the same topic. When the decade of the 80's drew to a close just a few short months ago, it took with it many great people and things that were in our lives. Among the dead were Roy Orbison, drive-in theatres, LP’s, and hockey. Yes, that’s right. Hockey. And the cause of death you ask? Well, any hockey fan who has been aware of the changes in the style of the game over the past ten years will know that the death was due to an increase in needless interference, mainly hooking and clutching. What is happening is that slower, less talented players, or tired skaters near the end of their shifts are hooking the puck carrier in the waist or tying him up with their arms. They usually don’t haul the puck carrier down, creating a penalty, but harass him enough to hinder his progression with the puck. This slows the game interference

down drastically. Consequently, I can no longer sit and watch an entire 60 minutes of hockey on the television without losing interest. If you look at footage of hockey games from t*he 60’s and 70’s, it makes the 80's ones look like they are in slow motion. Oh how I miss the games of the seventies when players like Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Phil Esposito and Frank Mahovolich would skate nearly the entire length of the ice and score. For a player to do that today, he must

hooking and &tching of the puck carrier slows the game down drastically skate with two opponents hooked onto him resembling tow chains, then veer around defencemen that use their sticks like machetes. That brings up another point that is related to stick work high sticking. From looking back at the old style of play, I noticed that players us&d to carry their sticks along the ice. Today, players are skating around with their sticks high in the air. And the N.H.L. executives wonder why there are an increasing number of stick incidents resulting in

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head injuries. And you don’t have to be big to use your stick for interference. Take sweet little innocent Theron Fleury for example. He had the second highest total for nigh sticking infractions in the 1989-90 NHL regular season. Then when the playoffs roll around, the interference is escalated while the referees become more and-more lenient. The pace slows down even more, tempers flair, and all hell breaks loose. More and more, players are stretching the limit of the amount of interference that they are allowed to apply before a penalty is called. Accusing fingers cJn be pointed at: 1) the referees for their increased leniency in the past decade and 21 the changing attitudes of the players themselves. Gentlemanly players like Bobby Orr, Stan Mikita, and lean Beliveau are no longer the normal, but the extrenie. The only solution would be to implement some sort of rule that requires players to keep sticks below the knees. Otherwise, this stick play leads to cheap shots, high elbows in the corners, show boating goals, and more fights, fines, and injuries. It is getting to the point where games are no longer won by skill, but by intimidation (usually through interference]. And that is not entertaining hockey. It is slow aggravating mind games.

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6Cycling among new. ret courses Ret activities, you have a second chance to show your ‘Pqrticipation’ spirit as the 1990 Canada Fitweek approaches. Step into Canada’s Fitweek sporting your running shoes on Sneaker Day (May’25). Next Friday morning Cana&ans from Victoria to Halifax will lace up their shoes, whether they are wearing suits, skirts, or shorts, to promote physical activity for a healthier lifestyle. Fitweek runs from May 25 till June 3. Show your spirit and get involved. Reminder: The gym will be closed from May 22 -26 for Spring Convocation. Congrat ulations to all our past Campus Ret enthusiasts who are graduating.

Campus Ret by Susan. Lehane Imprint staff

After many hours of organizing, sign making, line ups, form filling, payments, and computer inputting, Campus Recreation registration is finally completed. Over 13~10 applications have been processed so far, and the numbers keep increasing as late ,registration continues throughiout this week. Hundreds of people are anticipating passing away their spare time this summer learning the games of squash and tennis, doing aerobics, performing tai chi, ballroom dancing, jiving, playing and numerous other golf, activities. I If you missed out on Campus

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The class would begin with stretching, while the instructor gives an informal talk on a topic such as safety oi; bike gear. This is also a period for discussions, questions and answers, and planning the bike route. The

heme of the ride is to bike :ogether with no one getting left Dehind. and to finish together. On days of bad wea;her, we may have a discussion, a workship on bike maintenance and repair, train indoors, or watch films. The classes will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 4:45 - ,695 PM. This allows enough time for a shower and a meal before a night class. Students living in iesidence just need to request a late supper, and cyclists pushed for time can take b shorter route or return earlier. The cost is $35 for 21 sessions over a period of 8 weeks, starting May 14, It is not too late to ioin, so reschedule those afternoon labs and contact the Campus Ret office to see what is available.

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cycle your blues away. What other sport allows you to travel across beautiful country sides, the ability to talk to someone and start some new friendships, and the opportunity to cover long distances? Well here is you? chance to get fit by cycling. A cycling for fitness course was not included in the Spring Campus Ret book when it was published, but now there are two enthusiastic instructors willing t9 lead the course. The course is for beginner and intermediate riders, men and women. It is not really suited for racer’s training. This course is for people who would just like to improve their cardiovascular fitness, or to give them confidence to enter their first bike race (perhaps the ring road classic), or get

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‘World Cup S.occer first round picks by Rich Nichol Imprint staff _

1st Italy 2nd U.S.A. 3rd Czechoslovakia 4th Alistria Italy, the host team of World Cup ‘90, has been drawn into a suspiciously easy division. It should be an easy cakewalk to first place for Team Italy in round one. The Yankees and the Czechs will have a tough fight over second place while the powerless Austrian crew should be a distant fourth.

1st Argentina ’ 2nd U.S.S.R. 3rd Romania 4th Cameroon This group is tough, even, and one of the two strongest divisions in the tournament. The cohesiveness of the Argentina roster has been enviable in the last two World Cups and this time will be no different. But thev are uu against a much improved aid ubrising U.S.S.R.

squad that is looking to upset. Romania and Cameroon will just fall short of the limelight, but the experience of the Rumanian team will give it the edge over CQmeroon.

1st -Brazil 2nd Scot land 3rd Costa Rica 4th Sweden Look for this division to split up into two pairs. Brazil and Scotland should easily annihilate the other two, but declare all out war against each other to decide first place. Keep an eye on the spidery front line of the ‘Costa Rican squad.

1st West Germany 2nd Colombia 3rd UAE 4th Yugoslavia Argentina the defending champion in World Cup play has lost a b&of firepower up front, but has compensated with some tough hal.fbacks and fullbacks. ‘The boys from the easy side of the wall should clinch the division without incident. The rest of the division is a toss up. The

(quickness of the Colombia players should give them sect)nd place. Yugoslavia will be curser! from day 1. .I .:*: .: ,. p::.

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1st England 2nd Ireland 3rd Netherlarids 4th Egypt A strong group F will see some of the most cant roversy, blood, and violence. But enough about the fans. England and the Net herlands are each other’s nightmares. Meanwhile, Ireland has a strong cllance of becoming the best of the British Isles, Since that Moses dude left a few years back, soccer iust hasn’t been the same along the Nile. K-W’s Finest Eyewear Boutique

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“Come and be a part of the Caribbean Students Association (GSA) every Tuesday at 5:30 pm in CC135. A number of interesting events are scheduled for this term. See you there!” Jazz Choir - The UW Jazz Choir meets every Tuesday at IO:00 pm in Siegfried Hall. New membersare always welcome. For more information contact David Fisher at 884-6565. See you there.

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GLOW (Gays and Lesbians of Waterloo) operates a coffee house every Wednesday in room 1 IO of the Campus Centre at the University of Waterloo from 9:00 to 1 I:00 pm. All are welcome. Call 884GLOW for more info. Feminist Discussion Group. Meets every Wednesday from 7:OO to 9:00 pm at Global Community Centre. Topic and group vary weekly so that all women are welcome anytime. For more info. call ext. 3457 or 578-3456. Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship -bible study. CC 1IO at 7:30 pm. All are welcome. For more information, call 88457.12,

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c Gary Moving - man with small cube van and appliance cart available weeknights, weekends - $30./hr. in Kitchener-Waterloo; out-of-town extra - Gary, 746-7160. Translation Services - call Chantal 884-l 970 ext.: 2398 or 885-1211 - French). ext.: 2249. (English Two men with half-ton, to do light moving or garbage removal, also have machines to do office cleaning. $20.00/hr. Phone 749-l 437. in mathematics and physics available for tutoring. 885-0109.

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C.A.R. Cycle Repairs. Serving U of W for 3 years. 5 minutes from campus. Repairs to all makes & models. Call for appointment. 746-5978.

Plan ahead ! For two women. <Two bedrooms, small study, eat-in kitchen, bath, sundeck, laundry and lounge with cotour Tm Limited parking. $295. per person includes utilities and cable. Available August 1st. 745-8770 or 885-2908. Newly furnished bed-sitting room in five women house. Two baths, 2 kitchens, laundry and cofour cable N. $275. inludes utilities and cable. Velas Residences for Women. 8852908 or 745-8770. May - August 1990, room for sublet, Haz8l Street. Furnished including bed, desk, sink, cupboards, parking. Share washroom and kitchen. Private, quiet and $ negotiable. Call Debbie collect (613) 727-9469.

New epartment, 6 bedroom, 2 baths, FOR SAL;E Yamaha CDX-520, CD player with remote. Great features including over 1 year warranty remaining. Worth $410. only 5275. Call Steve 7465439. Hifly Race Windsurfer - 6.5 m2 Niel Pride sail, Niel Pride harness, great board beginner to advanced, SSOO., call Tiger 746-5439. 1982 Honda J!k Moped - PA 50, excellent condition, reasonable price, located on campus. 884-l 176.

Great Car - 1987 Nissan Sentra Zdoor coupe, black, automatic, sunroof, 67,000 km., excellnt condition, must e seen. Call Heather 725-0559. 750 Norton Commando black, showroom condition, safetied. shop manual included. $2,100. Brantord 753-6648. Car Speaker: KICKER (I!) singlecabinet. Power full in fastbacks, hatchbacks, trucks. Details available. $400. or best offer. Call Jordan 7250578.

TYPIWQ Professional Word Processing by experienced secretary. Letter quality print, spellcheck. On campus pick-up, delivery. Call Sharon 656-3387, 3S Years experience; .95 d.s.p. $1.25 d.s.p. Word typewritten; Processor. Erb and Westmount area. Call 743-3342. Word Proceesing. Fast, accurate, Letter quality, dependable. Competitive rates. Same day service often available. Call Betty, 886-6361. Improve Your Grade I Top quality typing; grammar and spelling errors corrected, sentence structure smoothed. Westmount at University. 885-5952. Fa&prof&sional word processing by University Grad (English}. Grammar, spelling, corrections available. Laser 686-3857. Suzanne, ‘printer. l

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Experienced Typist will type anything. Reasonable rates. Fast efficient service. Westmount-Erb area. Call 886-7153.

Join the Warriors Ba,nd! Practice every Thurs. at 530 in the PAC, room 2012 (Blue North). New and old members welcome. We can provide instruments.

FASS Writer’sMeetings - Come be a part of the crew who write that crazy yearly show. Everyone welcome {we mean it!) 7:30 MC 5158.

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House of Debates meets in Physics 313 at 5:00 pm. New members will be welcomed ecstatically. Come out and argue with us!

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2 kitchens, laundry, parking and spacious. Sedt. 1st, $1,5OO/mo. 40 Euclid Avenue, 747- 1217. Sept. lgt, first class 2 bedrooms apartment, self-contained and very large, completely furnished with excellent furniture, very quiet and clean, balconies, intercom security system, on bus route $240 to $320 each. Depends on number of students. Utilities included, labndry facilities, parking, walking distance to both universities, 344 Regina St. N. behind MacDonald’s on Columbia, phone 885-0843 anytime.

Bagds!The Waterloo Jewish Students Association/Hillel presents a weekly Baget Brunch every Thursday from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm in the Campus Centre. Check with Turnkey for the room number. Womyn’s Group - meets in CC 135 (usually) at 8:30 pm. Come out and enjoy movie nights, educational evenings, dances, road trips and casual discussions. For weekly events call 884GLOW or listen to 94.5 FM, Thursdays from 6-8 pm.

Chinese Christian fellowship meetings every Friday at 7:00 pm at WLU’ Seminary Bldg. Rm 201. Contact Mike Liu at 747-4065 for rides. Do you &ink you have a drinking problem? Perhaps AlcohoHcs Anonymous can help* Weekly meetings open to the public held in the Health & Safety Building - Meeting Room (ask receptionist) on Fridays at 12:30 pm or call 742-6183. EVERY SUNDAY

The Student Christians Movement meets to discuss issues of injustice. The SCM is an ecumenical group that challenges people to live out their faith in Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship evenaction. For more information call 725- ing service. 7:00 pm at 163 Uiversity Ave. W. (MSA) Apt. 321. All are welcome. For 0125. more information call 884-57 12.

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W&e looking for people who want to earn extra money in their spare time on Wednesday evenings or Thursday mornings delivering the Waterloo Chronicle in areas around the University. Please call 886-2830, 9:oO a.m, to 590 p.m. I

PERSONALS For i Good Time - call Rhythm Rob’s Disc Jockey Services, cdltect (416) 546-5538.

Cardiovascular Reactivity Study All students who have participated, please call Barb at 885-l 211 et. 6786 ~ASAP to arrange your second or third retest session. I_

Therapies where their graduate - level training at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute will be given credit as part of the Lesley- Masters rogram. To complete their Masters degree, students spend two summers at Lesley College for 2 five week wriods. If you would like to receive further information aboul this joint effort, please contact our office and a staff person will be pleased to talk to you. 216 St. Clair West Avenue, tet.: 9246221.

My Dear Piglet -What are you getting me for my birthday? Only 17 days away ! Better be something good, my dude. Tell everyone else to’ get me something, too.’

The Toronto Art Therapy Institute and the Institute for Arts and Human - Students in first or . Devetopment at the Lesfey College second year between 18 and 25 years Graduate School in Cambridge Mass. old are invited to participate in a have completed arrangements for a Cardiovascular Reactivity study. No co-operative program of studies Exercising Required I Call Barb or leading to a masters degree in the John at 885-1211 ext. 6789. expressive arts therapies. Students New Grads, don’t forget the alumni and graduates of the Toronto Art Referral Service in ydur search for Therapy Institute 2 year diploma your first job. Application forms may program, are eligible to apply to the be picked- up in -Needles Hall Room Lestey College Masters degree 10ot. program in the Expressive Art

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HELP WAWTtD CFNY-FM Toroatb. We’re looking for a person who wants 8 ch8llenging and rewarding career in sales. The person we would like to talk with WilJ be looking for a care& with unlimited growth potential, will be willing to learn, will have no re$ervations about hard work and creative challenge. This person must be a recent university or college graduate, perferrerbly in the business field. we Ml give you an opportunity to earn what you think you’re worth. For an opportunity to join an exceptional sales team and represent station CFNY-FM as a sales representative. cat1 Cliff Cohen - 365-2153, Thursday May 17th or Friday May 18th Between 2-5 p.m. only. We are an eqtial opportunity employer.

Wanted to Borrow - for Spring term. Two recentish ! editions of Ferry’s Chemical Engineercng handbook. Willing to pay. Call Steve or Tig, 7465439. Wanted - someone ‘with a car who wants to go windsurfing on those 20 knot plus days (and wants company). Call Tiger 746-5439

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