1991-92_v14,n06_Imprint by Editor Imprint

I Friday, Jvly12,1991

Vol. 14 no. 6

Secimd ClasaP Registration Number NP6453 Kitchener, Ontario

Volunteer Tutors needed to provide one to one tutoring for adults and youth who want to improve their reading, writing and basic math skills. If interested, please call Core Literacy 743-6090.

Green Conkrence - Environmental conlerence, based on sustainable campuses, leeds volunteers for organization, accomnodations, fundraising, etc. Career I&ource Centre - Investigate how IOU can use and enhance your skills - be Dart of several projects currently in qrogress. Offwe Hours are: Monday 1:30 to 3100 p.m. ; Tuesday, 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. ; Wednesday 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. ; Thursday 12:OO to 3:00 p.m. ; Friday 1200 to I:00 !Z&&ed in volunteer opportunities, call ext. 2051 or drop by CC 150A. Doon Heritage Crossroads opens for summer season on Sunday, May 5 from IO:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This is a non-profit museum. For info contact Marcia J. Shortreed at 748- 1914 or Wendy Connetl at 748-1914.

Mom waded each term to assist with Conversational and Written English. Conact Sheryl Kennedy, IntematiQnal Student Mice, NH2080

ARRowClmtms cvudirn Authors Assoc - hdds meetings he first Monday of every month at the Kitchener Pu btic Library. For more info contact Lenore Latta 8241225 ; Susan Gibbons 7440900; Dale G. Parsons 742- 1495. Oq@cally w beef hamburgers and hotdogs will be served on buns produced from organically grown wheat in the Campus Centre only at the Wild Duck Cafe. “Skin on” french fries from organically grown potatoes cooked in low cholesterol shortening will also be available. (from FcaA Services).

The He&age Resources Centre at the. University of Waterloo is offering 4 oneweek summer programmes for children age 8 to 12. A combination of educational and physical activities focuses on local historic and natural themes. The 4 themesthis summer are: 1. Exploring the Grand - July 2 to 5 -cost $85. 2. Niagara Escarpment - July 8 to 12 cost $95. 3. Niagara Escarpment - July 15 to 19 cost $95. 4. Long Point Camp dut - Aug. 12 to 16 cost $140. For further information, please contact the Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo at 885 12 11, ext. 3066.

Growing up: The Undiscovered Generation and Our Future. The Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs 60th Conference at Geneva Park, Ontario, August 8-t 1, 1991. wilt examine the social, economic and ed;cational influences affecting youth today. Scholarships and student discounts are available. For information, contact Youth Committee Chairperson at (4 16) 266-7757. Want to rid your office or study shelf of those Canadian, US or foreign calendars? The Career Resource Centre occasionally has difficulty getting and keeping some calendars ; your donation could fill a gap. Please send any recent calendars to: Career Resource Centre, Needles Hall, room 1115.

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Is Princess LRia really Luke Skywalker’s sister? Is Darth Vader Lake’s father? Did Han Solo survive the carbon freezing? Will Yoda finish teaching Luke the ways of the

force?

UW offers Visitors Attractions - a travetllng Answers to these and other quesexhibit from the Canadian Museum of . tions will be conferred by those Nature entitled “From Crystals to Gems” at Gurus of knowledge (no, not Alex UW’s Biology-Earth Sciences Museum Tribe&) - The Tur&eys, on July 16. June 11 to August 6, Biology 1 Building rooms 370 and 371 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. . . with a little help from George Lucas weekdays. Weekend hours from June 15 and 20th Century Fox. That’s right, to July 14 are Saturday and Sunday 1 to 5 R&umoftheJediwillwrapupthe p.m. Ad,mission is free. summer of Cinema Gratis in the Great Hall at 9 pm If you have suggestions for films for the fall term, feel Off-Campus Housing Office - hours of free to leave them at The Turnkey operation - located on the roof of the Village I Complex is open from 8130 a.m. to Desk or with Turnkey Cynthia. 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday starting June Upcoming events at the Desk to 17 thrwgh to August 30, 1991. On watch for include another bike ID on weekends from 1O:OOa.m. to 3:OO p.m. on July 16 and 17 and a euchre toumaSaturdays, June 22 k August 24, 1991, merit - more info and registration inclusive. When the office is closed canbehadfromTbmkeySe~ accommodation lists may be obtained Now that summer has arrived, the from the Turnkey Desk at CC or the Turnkey Desk should be your first Security Office. stop for vacation phnhg. Stored within its vaults of printed info-Atbntiowbpi+gWti&wM?ckup useful tion are loads ofharjst guides, travel insights into the craft of writing. To make an appointment please call 743-0271, ext. 254, KPL Main, Heal& & s;rkty Department - Summer Hours - The HeaM 1& Safety Dept. wilt be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday during the months of May, June,:, July and August.

Career Vices will conduct workshops: to assist the 1992 graduating students to prepare for their job search and graduate interviews. Sign-up sheets will be avaitable in NH 1001 the week prior to the workshop. ’ ALL CLASSES IN NH1020 unless stated otherwise.

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recreation, carnptig canoeing boating and backpacking guides, not to mention the proud centrepiece: the maIjs, and road/city maps. There are also, upon polite request: festival, visitor, accommodation, art gaky, 1991 Rand McNally Road Atlas and Vacation Guide for North America. All of the preceding can be borrowed from the Desk with a mere stident card (your own preferably). Or for those finding themselves in stranger neighbourhoods than Scarborough, the Desk also has English-

Italian, -French, -Chinese, -German, and -Spanish dictionaries (no, not all rolled into one). Other suggestions from the Desk for an enjoyable summer: Turnkeys also loan out frisbees, ping pang sets, tennis balls, bicycle tools, and a plethora of boardgames (rulebooks and game instructions too - to keep a “peaceful” summer). So enjoy the road construction - I mean summer and do visit your friendly neighbourhood Turnk&y Desk, open 24 hours.

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Interview SMJls & - 2 hours - practice selling your skitls. Wednesday, July 17 ‘2:30 to 4:3O p.m. j& %rch - 1 hour - a look at creative and traditional methods of finding jobs, with an emphasis on the hidden job market of unadvertised positions, Tuesday, July 16 -1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

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b rlcohol causing problems in your life? ,et’stalk about it,..Happy Destiny Group bOpen Discussion. Come to Health and saf&y Building at UW Campus- Every Wday at 12130 p* m. Bring a lunch - brine i friend.

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Lucy’s successor named He is also in his 14th year of being a tudor in the student Villages, which he feels has been “a very positive experience.”

by Dave T~OIIWOII Imprint staff

Since

the retirement

of Dean of Students Ernie Lucy at the end of May, students have been without an official voice in the senior administration. That changed yesterday when Alan George, Vice President, Academic & Provost appointed Peter Hopkins to the position of Associate Provost, Student Affairs. Hopkins has been at the University of Waterloo since 1968, starting out in the athletics department. During the many years with that department, he has been primarily in charge of campus recreation programs, as well as coaching football and teaching. A little over a year ago, he was promoted to the Assistant Director of Facilities and Recreational Services.

Hopkins feels that his “dualistic role in student affairs” has given him a great deal of background and experience that will be valuable in his new position. Meeting

associations

with

student

groups

and

in the next few weeks is

the first item on Hopkins’agenda. He wants to consult with these groups to develop a strategy to “work towards improving the quality of life of students on this campus.” Alan George said that the decision was a hard one to make considering that, in his view, everyone who was interviewed was ‘highly qualified for the position.” He added that Hopkins is a “very competent person with a long record of working with people on campus.”

George said the decision to changti the position from Dean to Associate Provost stemmed from a committee report several years ago that recom mended the change. The committee felt that the title of Dean should be reserved for academic positions, whereas the responsibilities of ti job fell more under a staff or manage ment position. john Leddy, President of the Federation of Students, stated that the Federation was pleased with the decision, Having participated in the interviews, Leddy said they felt Hopkins was best suited for the position, and looks forward to working with him. Leddy has previously expressed concern about the change in the title of the position, since it has traditionally been a Dean position at Waterloo. He also was upset that it took so long to replace Ernie Lucy, even though the senior administration knew of Lucy’s retirement well in advance.

See Europe .and study Ken Harrower claims he was lied to by a Kiihener that sold him a second-hand SCO&L

The University ing a three-week

Photo by Joanne Sandrin

Worthwhile y Dave Thomzum nptint staff About two weeks ago, a physicallyhallenged Waterloo student was on is way home when his scooter sudenly stopped for no apparent m3im. Ken Haxrower bought the secondand scooter from a Kitchener store bout 10 months ago, having been Jld that it was only about a year Id. But after spending about $1,200 on rpairs, he says that he has disnered that the scooter was actually bout three years old at the time he ought it. Now it needs a new motor

gram this unification.

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that could’ cost up to a thousand dollars, which just isn’t worth it when a new scooter costs about $3,000. He is currendy investigating the po&bility of puxwiqg legal action, but is without a scooter in the meantime. The difference between a scooter and a wheelchair is that the former is meant for outdoor activity and the latter is essentially an indoor vehicle. This means that his ability to travel is restricted, and once the winter sets in,hewillbelimitedtotheindoors since his wheelchair cannot function in the winter climate. Federation of Students’ President John Leddy became aware of the problem and felt that students should do

some funto rectify the situation. He said that “the rest of us take a lot for granted/but don’t think about ople like Ken whase mobility is Iill’ ‘ted without a scooter. A car wash will be held on Saturday, July 20 to help raise funds for a new scooter for Harrower. Anyone who wi6hes to help with the event or has questions is askecl to call John wdy at the Fed,CHfice, 888-4042. During the Summerfest I& weekend there will be a box setup for voluntary contributions to the fund. Those Vito donate money will also be ebgible for a prize. As of press time, Ken had already raised over $700 dollars by himself toward the new scooter.

summer

European

Called’Towards 1992: The History and Politics of European Unification,” it consists of university lectures,

seminars, and discussions. It runs from Aug. 11 to Sept. 1 and is directed by UW faculty members and supplemented by sightseeing at historic sites and meetings with European academics, officials, students, and citizens, says Don Kasta of the Continuing Edwation department. ‘The program offers participants the opportunity

to learn about

the

political and economic background of the realignment of Europe that will occur in 1992 and of current issues associated with this development,” he says.

Four major centres will be used: -

Bocholt

the

Cennan-

Dutch border, halfway between Amsterdam and Duesseldorf at the facilities of the prestigious local “Europe Institute.” - The medieval town of Canterbury, site of the centuries-old cathedral and 45 minutes from London. - Paris, with headquarters at a comfortable tourist hotel. - Brussels, the busy capital of Belgium and the European Community, headquarteres of NATO and Europe’s international city. The price for the program is $3,495 and includes return airfare from Wonto (or Montreal) to Brussels, accommodation based on double -pq

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Network news y Paul Done nprint staff

munity when decisions must be made about the use of resources which are committed to E-mail and news,‘*

Johnny

Associate Provost

Wang

Computing

and

Information

Sys-

In releasing their f&l report dated May 30), the Advisory Com&tee on Network News, chaired by

terns, presumably to this end, has issued a campus-wide call for written comments upon the report, which

h. Greg Bennett, came out solidly in avour of as much freedom as possble in the exchange of information

should

be submitted

August 15. The introduction

to him before

also addresses

ia electronic media, The impetus for the formation of he committee came from a series of Tents which transpired last spring. l’he office of the Associate Provost

the problem of online copyright breach: “the users of computing systems . . must be held responsible for

Computing and Information systems authorized the cancellation of the L&w newsgroup family without

.Wtierloo

:onsulting or informing the user :ommunity. In the aftermath a large mtest was organized - hence the

:onunittee. The report contains a strongly woried statement in the introduction, tich emphasizes the need for “the Jniversity (to) consult its user com-

their decisions to take .advantage the resources which the University maintains

of of

for the *general

use of its community. . . the University will not be held liable for breach of copyright . . .‘# The question

of p0tentialIy

conten-

tious or offensive material on the network is addressed in both the introduction and recommendations sections. The report recommends that UW operate upon, and publicize, the principle

that ‘c . . in sendiig

posting an article to a newsgroup, it is the user and not the University, who. assumes responsibility for its contents.“

In the introduction, the report questions the need for a committee to monitor newsgroups, stating that there are mechanisms already in place to deal with complaints and don’t need to be duplicated. Particularly, the report refers to the Ethics Committee, which deals with

complaints of harassment under UW Policy 33 on Ethical Behaviour. The report brings up a very practical point which negates the need for a cominittee - ‘. . . the current volume of 11 megabytes arriving at the University makes such monitoring impractical.” a Rqarding

the problem

of offen-

sive postings which originate offcampus, the committee recommends that a resource person be named to help users pursue complaints which cannot be resolved through UW’s mechanisms.

Student Alumni Asoc, R&dent Jeffrey Epetehand UN Pm@dent Doug Wdght plant the 1991 dam tree on Alumni Lane. ‘UW News Bureau Photo

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Prof assailed anonymously . ‘It is diflkult to take any action when no one is prepared TV stand behind their allegations,” said Wright.

Iwmvmaus,”

Lawrence, but the findings are still incomplete. The Women’s Issues Board is also concerned with the matter. ‘I have no doubt (the letter) was legitimate,” said Cannel Greene, Chair of the Board. “He’s infamous for his comments.” The Women’s Issues B&d has not been able to take any formal action concerning the letter&cause it was anonymous. Professor Lawrence said he does not feel anonymous letters deserve any attention or respect.

The author of the unsigned letter wrote thqt Iawence’s opinions on he issue were “ignorant and insensiive” and said that Lawrence was “‘a mist, opinionated, old man” University of Waterloo President Doug Wright said an unsigned letter s a complicated issue that is hard to ieal with.

‘?f a pelson won’t disclose their name, how can you take what they are saying as credible?” Lawrence said in an interview. He said he wouldn’t discuss the contents of the letter as the person is obviously not prepared to taIk to him Lawrence said he won’t allow himself to be labelled as a criminal or anti-

name,

about the allegations

he mid

bmerux

But not all students share the letter writer’s views. One student in thr ~1oo~sa.idthatIawrence is a very opinionated man and ha shows it, but that he dways just&et his comments.

Another said they have never been bothered by any of Lawrence? opinions, but couId see how some one may be. A former student of Lawrence they had never noticed any feminist or chauvinistic remarks didn’t recall anyone ever coming ward with any concerns. Lawrence received the tinguished Teaching Award this ing.

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feminist by someone who won’t come forward and prove thei alIe@ima ‘There are none so brave as tht

He added that inquiries are being made by people he did not wish to

TheopinionsexpressedbyaUW professor during one of his lectures have become a concern of variaus people on this campus. In May, an amnpous student sent copies of a letter to University President Doug Wright, Dr. H.RN. Eydt, the Women’s Issues Board, the ImprintEditor, and Professor RGR Lawrence concerning comments made by Lawrence during his May 16 MTHEL 100 lecture. Urine the Commercial and Business I& for Mathematics Students lechm, Lawrence used the issue of dateoracquaintancexapeasanexampie to illustrate the lqal points of his kczhlre.

Landlord-Tenant Affairs

saic anti ant for Dis spr

luma~~atoneofthelocaluniwtsiti~rrentinga~mirralargehouse:I moved in in January but there wepe other students that had signed a lease who had been living in the huuse sine September 1990. I am leaving at the end of Aptil since my exams are done, but/some of the tenan@ on the lease are saying that the lease they signed is got&fura pr and that they srpecr me to stay until the end of August ut that I should get somebody for my nwm for the summer months. I, would like tu coopemte but I did not make any direct commitments to the land&I by si&ning any documents to stay in the premises until the end of August, nordidlurallyw with thehead tenants thatlwouidstuy until theend ofAugust I told them when Imoved in ire January that I would be leaving at the end ofApril. can I lepve at the end of Apti1 or am Ifu&u stay to the end of August? I agree with you that you should not have to stay until the end of August, since I am assuming that you have made no commitment with the head tenants on the lease in your rental situation to stay until the end of August 1991. Since you have indicated that you have no direct dealings with the landlord, the head tenants on the lease are your landlords. The Landlord and Tenant Act still requires you to give written notice to the head tenants even though you told them that you were only willing to stay there for four months when you moved into the premises in January 1991. Unless you gave written notice prior to the end of February 1991, the head tenants could stilI request that you pay rent in May 1991. I would urge you to give a written Notice of Termination to the head tenants on the lease for the end of May 1991. You can still give this written Notice of Termination as long as the head tenants on the lease are notified in writing by the end of March 1991. You must give the written Notice of Termination since technically your tenancy is renewed on a month-tomonth basis with the heah tenants once-the fixed term of your tenancy agreement expires.

Question: Reedy I have been asked by my landlurd to vacate my premises since he The University of Waterloo, horn4 i indicated that the plumbing is so out of date that he neeo!~ vacant possession to of Canada’s firstprofessional Schm do all the nermaty repairs, I have been waiting for a long time for reasonable of Accountancy, has announced the repairs to be &ne, but Ido not think Ishould have to give up the possession of creation of the Ontario Charterer my premises. Accountants’ Chair in Accounting. The announcement was made bl Prof. Howard Armitage, director o the school at the recent annua general meeting of the Institute o Chartered Accountants of Ontaric Answer: Nanwd as first incumbnt of the chai I would suggest that you first look at the possible protection of the is uw Prof. WiIQam Scott. Residential Housing Protection Act as a possible defence to allow you to Armitage paid tribute to the CL stay in your premises. profession for the moral and finanti If there are more than four rental ‘units in your premises, the landlord support it has given to the schoo must obtain municipal approval for renovations and repairs as suggested in since its inception and in funding thi the landlord’s request prior to serving you with a Notice of Termination chair. Ron Gage, institute presideni under Section 107 under the Landlord and Tenant Act. If there are more congratt&.ed the school on it than four units in your building, the municipality may grant an exemption accomplishments in to allow renovations as suggested by your landlord, if the property which is accounq education and in the appointment o! the subject of the application is structurally unsound at the time of making Scott as the chair% first incumbent. the application and wouId continue to be structurally unsound if the Scott, a graduate of Carletor renovations proposed by the applicant are not carried out. University, received his MBA ant Also, the council may grant approval of the application if the applicant agrees to provide the tenants living in the building with the same number of PhD from the University of Chicago rental units in the same rental area in which you are living. Thus, the supply He has been a member of tht accounting faculty at UW since 1983 of affordable housing would not k affected by the request that you give and spent the 13 years prior to that ir vacant possession due to the intended renovations. With the strict the School of Business at Queen? requirements of municipality approval process under this Act, @ landlord may decide to try doing the work while you are still in posse&or~ The University in Kingston+ As well, Scot obtaining of a permit is not conclusive evidence of approval of the lanha? been a major contributor to tht recent development of UW’s Phr dlord’s actions under thii Act. program in accountancy. In 1989, ht If you live in a premises that does not have four or more units, you may still have the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act. The landlord was appointed editor of the joumal 0: would have to prove his intent to do renovation&&good f&#&d that all Contemporary Accounting Re search, a publication of the Canadiar permits required have been received by the local mtir&$aty, ie. plumbAcademic Accounting &so&ion ing permits. He was named a fellow of thg Also, there is the issue of whether vacant possession is required for the Institute of Chartered Accountants 01 intended renovations. If renovations could b& done while ten&s remain in possession or are temporarily displaced for a few hours or a day, the court Ontario in 1985. may decide that vacant possession is not required and that temporary Prof. Robin Banks, the former LM dean of arts, was also recognized a arrangements can be made to make it possible for the tenants to remain in the institute’s meeting for th6 the premises while the renovations are being done as suggested by the lanforesight and outstanding leadershi1 dlord in ypur building. Remember, the landlord must give you 120 days notice under Section 107 ,of the Landlord and Tenant Act. that he provided in the establishmen The provincial government brought ,j.n this r: legislation to stop or of the accountancy. The institute has about 24,00[ diminish the loss of rental housing supply in Ontio.The statutory protection procedures provided to tenants are based on a complaint procedure, members and 6,000 stud& and ti i.e. the tenants or individuals must contact the proper municipal officials if one of the best accountancy bodies the landlord for some reason does not foilow the procedures as set out in of iti kind in the world. Its ptogranu the Residential Housing Protection Act. Therefore, many tenants may include educatiofi; profe&onal, not know how to act to protect their interests under this Act. Therefore,. technical and ethics advisory sertenants should realize that if the landlord intends to demdish, convert, vices;practicekspwtionandatanrenovate, and/or repair premises of more. than ‘four unit9, municipal dards enforcement. Tqether with the appr0va.l is required. other provincial institutes of charTenants should contact the proper municipal officials if they have been tered accountants, it supports the served with Notices of Termination without the municipaI approval standard setting and other activities attached to the Notices of Termination served under the Landlord and of the Canadian Institute of *rTenant Act under Section 107. tered Accountants.

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WI dime divers Dave McDougall, Lisa Brice, Fred Kelly and John Leddy ndel be awarded at Sumt il.

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Experience the Gulf by Sandy Eix sped to Imprint David Bigelow, a recent mathematics PhD gaduate of the University of Waterlo&, will be at the university on July 17 to discuss his experiences with the Gulf Peace Team in the Middle East. The Gulf Peace Team is an iriternational, multicultural group working for peace in the Middlep and opposing any form ot arm aggression, It was responsible for the organization of a peace camp on the Saudi Arabian-Iraqi border before the Gulf War. The camp included 121 people from 19 different counties, including one Canadian - Muriel Sibley, a mother of five from Victoria, British Columbia. On January 27, the members of the peace camp were forcibly evacuated by Iraqi soldiers. The current work of the Gulf Peace Team includes providing medical aid to Iraqi and Kurdish victims of war, and rebuilding a huspita1 in Karballah, Iraq, which was destroyed by allied bombing. Dr. Sigelow joined the Gulf Peace Team on May 28 to participate in a six-

&v peace walk from Jerusalem to A&&n, Jordan. Par&pants in the walk included more than 40 people from such diverse places as* In&, Fmgland, Japan, Finland, and the United States, as well as Israelis and Palestinians. Along the way, they visited several towns in the occupied West Bank, and had the opportunityi to speak informally with residents the& The walk was-stopped twice by the Israeli military; and many members were arrested. Dr. Bigelow, 30, is a mathematics imtructo~ at Malaspina College in Nanaimo,

BC where

he has been

active in local peace and environmentaalinitiatives.ke

will discuss the role

of the Gulf Peace Team in the Middle East, and share some ,insights he gained on the recent ace walk. The informal talk will be r’ lustrated with a slide presentation, and questions will be wekome. Dr. Bigelow will be speaking in Physics 145 at 7 pm on Wednesday, July 17. This event is sponsored by Waterloo Public Interest Research Grou (WPIRG) and the UW House of De La tes. I

Photo by C.D. CcxdaS

by Paula Hendsbee red Buard of cummunications Slip into your beach clothes and headforthe Fed Hall patio July 19and 20 - Summerfest has returned. For those of you who missed out on Sum-’ merfest in June, now’s your chance to get wet and wild in the indoor swimming pool, and cool off with the outdoor patio and tent at Summerfest II.

The Summerfest Slime Dive, postponed from June due to rain, will top the list of events. Three $400 mountain bikes await the daring participants of Saturday night’s Slime Dive. Other events include d volleyball tourney Friday evening. and contests and prize giveaways both nights. According to Federation of Students’ Dave McDougall, this is the first time the annual Sununerfest

to twt 3 weekends. ‘The event was extremely successful in June, so we decided to take another stab at it,” he explains. Not to mention the fact that the mountain bikes went unclaimed in June when the Jello dive was rained out For more information and for Summerfest II tickets, visit your Federation of Students in CC 235 or call 88&4042. celebration

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fireside chat I breathed an honest sigh of relief this week as our impassioned plea for response to this newspaper was met with a relative flood of letters - a flood compared to the number of tetters we have received per issue this summer. The first, from KM Shapiro (page 71, was a veritable post mortem of the last issue, so I thought it only fair that I address the most important question posed by the letter writer. For all of your information, our very own Intelligent Humour creator, Chris Williams, is @king a vacation in some exclusive location, but will resume submission of his twisted, brilliant work in September. And negotiations are underway with all of the relevant counsel concerning the publishing of a II-i book. Stay tU!Nd! 1 appreciate Shapiro’s comments aboul various aspects of the news and forum sections, despite the labelling of me as an Objectivist (with a capital “0“). Reading Ayn Rand by flashlight under my sheets? Well, not exactly. In fact, I’ve got her visage tacked on a darl board (not really, but it’s an option). While I love comments about aspects of the paper as it stands, I would always welcome sugg8stbm about future content. When we publish a feature about how mainy Iraqi civilians the Ameriwn armed forces have murdered or how bad an idea Meech Lake was, we like to believe that sober-minded students will be interested in these topics and that, certainly, the average will approve of our discussion of these same topics. Representatives of student governments, like the Federation of Studen&’ executive, are going through the same kind of quest for consensus, specifically about what sorts of issues can be considered “student” ones, especially with respect to lobbying. 60th the Ontario and Canadian Federation of Students hav8 had ta consider policy motions as wide-ranging as sanctions against South Africa, the use 01 force in the Persian Gulf, and abortion. 8ul what do these issues haveto do with students? What proximity to us do they share with underfunding, quality of education, and dat8 rape? Not to mention adequacy of student life facilities? These are questions ‘that can only be answered by the sponsors of the Federation, the etectorate. If you are a full-time student, paying Fed fees, that’s you. With your Fed fee, you pay for the right to express your opinion to John Leddy, Lisa B&e, and Steve Millard 8nd ask them to represent those views to larger lobbying groups. What does this mean about Imprint,then, you ask. We full-time students all pay fout bucks per term to this student newspaper doesn’t that entitle us to the same sort of inpul into this publication? Yes, it does, Imprintexists as a forum for you folks out there, so you can find out whal other students think about various topics. But a necessary condition for this to happen is that you must be able to see university as more than just classes, exams, and assignments. It is also an education of another kind, an exposure to other ways of thinking and other expressions of reality . . . . This is realty starting to sound like a chat I’H be hting with the fresh population in about six rrveeccS. But remember: this is a lesson that we can all learn about this ivory anct unreafistic rHorId in which we reside.

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The hfferertce between this forum and other commissions, such as the Citizen’s bum, was that those involved took the national unity debate away from the legal and constitution&qectsandaddressedthedaily concerns of Canadians. And instead of merely

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But who was chosen to lead the group discusstin? An American I can’t argue against the e3cplise that Harvard law professor RogerFisherhasinregards toconfktresolution methods, but I can’t heip but be wary of M Ammnning a show on Canadian national identity. With the Forum being closely monitoti by a team of Maclean’s editors and reporters, there was never any doubt that the pages and pagesdedkatedtothekrumwouldbeposithe. I diddt however expectalm~t the entire issue to be dedkated to profiles of those involved, reports, photos, an essay on CMtAjct resolution a pro(ile of Roger Fisher and even complete excerpts of discussions held over the weekend.

After such extensive coverage on a Fkun 1 had never heard about until the results were made public, I anxiously awaited Madean’s coverage of the Citizen’s Forum on Canada% Future. I expected juicy stories about one of the most expensive inqu&s in Canada’s history. I hoped for facts behind stories I had heard about overspending and feuding commissioners. And I m there would for sure be a story ab&t how Spicer fell appnoximattely 65O#Xl people short of his one m.iIIion target number of people to involve. Instead, there was a single story that regqitated much of what the newspapers ran And what a scoop the papers hack “Canada in Crisis” read the June 28 Toronto Star. And no one knew about it until that day!

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Feedback feedbag TO the editor, Last issue, you asked whether the lack of letters to the editor indicated that you were doing such a great job that no one had any complaints. This may in fact be the case. However, I have a few comments that may or may not be worthy of publication. I’ve noticed the complete lack of the Intelligent

Humor

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recently. Why? That strip is an integral part of the Imprint, and certainly one of the more enjoyable. 111admit there are those who don’t like it, but there is also a substantial number of us who very much enjoy Chris William’s work. I’ve called for an Intelligent Humor book before, actually. Come to think of it, that’s still a good idea. If we can’t get our bi-weekly fix, at le&t let us see the old-bnes again! _ Some of the newer colu6ms are good,

though; especially the Turnkey and Fed columns. It’s pleasant to see some news-like items in the paper. Last week’s Fireside Chat also happened to strike a chord. Usually I don’t like this column at alI - Peter Brown is far too much of an Objectivist for my taste - but it’s good to see he still has some patriotism. Bravo, Peter! And bravo Jack Lefcourt, for a cartoon that sums up how a lot of Canadians feel after a year of particularly grueling internal squabbles. There are a lot of people in other countries that would gladly switch positions with Llsin fact, the tremendous number of

immigrants trying to get into this country should point this out. If the country is in such troubIe, why do so many people still want to come here? Mynoduesp, in his (?) article, “Drugs: some legz& some not/ suggests legalizing marijuana and other drugs. However, one thing he fails to consider is the health risk involved with any mind-altering drug. In order to be a mind-altering drug, it must have a detrimental effect on the body. (This is not to mention little things like persons attempting to float gently out of fifth-floor windows.) This would increase health-care costs. There do exist people who would use drugs if they were legal but not ifthey were illegaI. There do exist pew ple who obey the law; I happen to be one of them. The current ubiquity of! alcohol and nicotine in our society should not be used as a justification for releasing other drugs to the general populace. It is tragic that some people still don’t believe it’s possible to have a good time without drinking. The results of what Mynoduesp suggesk iGould bealargeclassof people who think the same way about mariiuana, or cocaine, or worse. “Nicotine is as addictive as cocaine or heroin, yet it is grossly overtaxed and becoming mob of a tab&It causes untold deaths pi> year, but governments are afraid at the thought of making it illegaI/ says Mynoduesp. No findings I have seen support his first statement. The others, though, are thought-provoking. Personally, I’m very impressed by the current level of taxation on cigarettes. It would be a very poor move politically to ban them outright (and would immediately create a lot of criminals!), but if we can get people to stop from the economic pressure, let’s! The pulp and paper idea is interesting hemp paper would be interesting to write on - but people would very quickly start smoking their newspapers, and this would caused a I

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top of eveming else. Sandy AtiaI always has interesting things to say in Paranoia, but this week’s version seems a little more relaxed than previous ones have. However, his final assertion seems at odds with the rest of his article. Perhaps we can and musf shield people forever. Remember, the average IQ is 100. For the foreseeable future, and possibly much longer, the human race is certainly going to need to be shielded from ikeIf. In a utopia, peaple will take re ponsibii~ whenever it’s required. However, as Mynodeusp suggested, pmple wcmki much rather retreat to an unreality than stay around and accept the bad things in real life. Jay Shorten’s study of the political future of the country is fascinating. I would like to

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thank him for taking the time to perform this study, although it has taken him away from his regular, poetical pursuits. Phillip Chee used a lot of long words, but hey were all spelled correctly. The pair of articles about the “Glass Teat” of television were excellent. This week’s instalment carried no byline, but the piece was well written. 1 enjoyed the mention of “Days and

Nights

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shows. It’s a shame to think that it failed because it had no laugh track! Says something about the North American public, unfor-

tunately, as does the cancellation good show, “Max Headroom.” The record

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by Phillip Chee Imprint staff Nature is not a concept. People have sought to define, contain, dominate, or Gab&e the trees, rocks, sand, and animals for millennia. But when you stand. out in the forest and suspend the de&e for meaningfulness, maybe you can know Being without an existential nausea. Yet, I wonder if this is only because we moderns can do this without the shackles of fear; the gift of accumulated knowing over a thousand centuries. And I wonder if I can call nature, home. Home in what sense? Conventional wisdom sees nature in the image of the. boreal forest, while the Lakota-Sioux saw the free-ranging plains where they danced with wolves, as home. The Old Testament tribes of Israel looked for the Garden city amidst the desert. The perennial quest has taken us beyond geography and back, to finding a place, even simply to be. God didn’t kick Us out, we walked out ourselves. Darwin too, was a’ product of his environment, but I think he articulated a universal truth. Natie is a story, the story of naturaI evolution, the text of life itself. I do below because I have co-evolved with my surroundings, whether it be the experiential emptiness of the city, the abstractions of the ecological literature, or the writings of Ricoeur’s followers, as I sit on the park bench, between the embers and the stars. I can even imagine the tree as my link There is no way I can feel an as organic wholeness witi a computer terminal, no matter how useful it is. The book is a tangible product of our feelings, thoughts, and ideas. But paradoxically, there is a limit. When all the trees are gone and no more books are pressed, does that mean we have reached the end . . . Nature is death actuaI&d by life; and we are nature. That is, life emanates from the decay of life and life wilI dissolve into the substrate that allows this to happen It is all an endless cycIe, existing in a mukbensional reality that is more than a world of objects. It &cornpam the realm of dream and waking and the connection between those two st8ta We can never reduce every bit of reality to discrete things; for ~~mustbesome~~~o~~onthatb~~~~‘andthat istheelusive mystery

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After a fall term without rightful place. Thank you. And how come there are never any upcoming events? Would this column fit on the second page with other important things? Okay. Hope you can use some of that, anyway. ?w Shapiro 3A Math

Raving Yahoo To the editor, Don’t tell me, you were so concerned about not getting any negative responses to Imprint material that you had such crap as the “Sounds 0’ Summer” review printed to get some raving Yahoos such as myself to fill your editorial pages? Well, it worked. I’m e&aged that Bernard Kearney (may I call him Bernie?) has the audacity to think that thousands of KitchenerWaterloo residents itnd students would attend such a p&&c gathering for Iack of something better to do! Bernie not oniy ridicule the event but insuIk the people of the area that attended and enjoyed the event Who is he to say how people should enjoy thems$ves. Not everyone is a “boogaIooer.” The FestivaI itself is La way for KitchenerWaterloo to bring ik residents and studenk together in a community atmosphere. Relaxation and/or excitement can be found; each to their own. However one looks at it, there is no other entertainment package of this sort that can be found $3.00. In fact, many events are free. Only BandsheII evenk had an admission charge (note: with “in-out” privileges). As a +ectator/participator/participatorI enjoyed myself immensely. I started my Saturday by attending a free concert by The Rhinos (a homegrown band) as part of the Oval activities, The poor acoustics of Seagram’s gymnasium were of little consequence as the band pLayed a fantastic set to a crowded (yet comfortable) house, At Waterloo Arena, I caught the last part of Lucky 7 who had the place rocking! In fact, The Skydiggers and The Pursuit of Happiness also gave great performances, Parts of the audience were sitting on blankets on the floor, some people were ambling around the arena, some were sitting on the upper benches rocking in their seats, but most of the crowd was dancing and having a great time! If I remember correctly, the encores were requested by the audience, not the announcer (what a dreadful thought!). Sunday’s events drew greater crowds as there was ne’er a cloud in sight. People did tend to lounge around, catch the rays, drink beer and play frisbee while enjoying soine of Canada’s great talent. Who am I to think that that is one of the best ways to spend a beautiful day? Bernie notes that throngs of people stuck around for Bootsauce. Does that not tell him something? Maybe he does not understand that people did so because they were enjoying themselves and found that Bootsauce was well worth sticking around for? (ps - they were, but don? tell Bernie. We don’t want to embarrass him for his lack Of go06 taste.) As I’d mentioned earlier, not all events were at the BandsheIl. The free Oval concerts were well woTfh chsking out. ThrOughOut the weekend, many groups includii The Rhinos, Strange Days, The Hot Tam&s, and The Good Brothers graced the stage. Many hundreds of people gathered for these events and were not disappointed! Allinall,IthinktheSoundsofSummerFes-

tival was a great success. I found the events very well organized, the mowds in abutidance and the spirik high! Everybody I have

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the Festival said they had a great time. It’s a shame Bernie’s pessimism ruined any chance for a good time he might have had. So who does Bernie think he is anyway, a journalist? I fear not! He reads like a professional whiner with anattitude in the gutter. Lf he thinks that people would actually enjoy reading an article like that, he’s got another thinriming. Sony! - a s@ial note for Bernie: Lighti up! You wili enjoy life so much more! Cindy

To the editor,

An article appeared in your last issue (Paranoia by Sandy Atwal) concerning gun controL It once again analyzed the issue from the ptrspective of crime and murder rates, albeit in an unusual and innovative style. Unfortunately, as usual the author along with almust every other gun control activist misinterprets the purpose of ‘The right to bear arms” within the American constitution Which I might add is most interestingly missing from the Canadian Charter of Bights. The purpose of this “civil liberty” is not to allow criminals free access to all the weapons they desire, nor is it designed to allow John Doe in the NRA to slaughter deer on the weekend with his M-14. The fundamental purpose of this aspect of the constitution is to guarantee to the American people that they will never have to endure any form of tyranny! Now the definitionof tyranny may be in (question, but the intent of the founding fathers of the United States was quite clear. They guaranteed the freedom of the American people to bear arms, that in time of necessity, they would be able to change (and revolt against if their -f-rY) government. Now many people currently believe that revolution in a modem, westernized country like Canada or the United States is a far fetched idea. Yet many modem industrialized societies have fallen under the sway of tyranny and have since revolted (I sight Eastern Europe as an example). We are not immune to their problems. So let us remember that we are given the option to bear arms, not as a right of fancy to be toyed with or dismissed, but as a sacred responsibility to uphold the principles of democracy. The very principles that allow a newspaper such as this to be printed.

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Stereotyped Engineers To the editor, As members of the Engineering Student %ciety at the University of Waterloo, we would like to address a comment made by a member of the K-W community at the Canada Day festivities at UMr. After spending three hours running the mini-Olympics for the children at the Canada Day celebrations, a Few engineering students were having a fun gameoftugofwar.Apasserby,uponleaming we were engineering students, commented “Oh, have you been drinking?’ Over the past few years, the Engineering Soci~ has- made a concerted effort to improve its image. The Engineering Society raises over $20,000 per year for local charities at such events as the annual Bus Push for Big Sisters, Shinerama, Plant Sales and Talent Shows. We feel that being involved in Canada Dav, as well as the other charitable events, is a &itive reflection on our society. UnforZunatelv, some members of our cOmmunity persist-in stereotyping all engineering students. Approximately fifty engineering students volunteered their time and effort to help make Canada Day a fun and successful event for everyone. We deserve more credit for our efforts than suggested by the gentleman’s comment.

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The Women’s Issues Board is in the process of preparing a proposal to the government regarding funding for safety improvement on CampUS.

On JUry 7, a safety audit of the campus was conducted to assess areas of concern. The audit was advertised in the Imprint and through posters but unfortunately-we had a small turnout of volunteers. Personal safety is an issue affecting everyone and the only way to heighten our sense of securitv on camDus is to have inwt from those whi use it. Namely the students and staff of UW. The Women’s Issues Board would like to hear from anyone who has specific suggestions or concerns regarding vulnerable areas on campus. Any input in safety improvement would be greatly appreciated. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the volunteers who took the time to come out. The Women’s Issues Board can be reached at ext. 6305 or at the Fed office, CC 235. CameI Greene, KimCreed wolneIt’s I-

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.The future *continued from page ti The newspapers didn’t have to worry much about covering the report. For $1.7 million, the commission supplied every Canadian daily, and several weeklies with a four-page supplement complete with colorful and emotional quotes from peopIe across Canada and photos of vocal students and thoughtful seniors that was all neatly polished and sum.ma&ed by members of the commission The Citizen’s Forum reported for example, that the Senate needs some fundamental reforms, that people dislikeand don’t trust the

Prime Minister and that the country faces an economic crisis (and it only cost approximately $24 million to discover this!) So the Citizen’s Forum told us what is wrong in Canada and the Maclean’s Forum told us how interest groups, individual companies, provincial councils and groups of average citizens can work to solve these problems, Which brings us back to the tiresome que+ tion of: when is the federal government going to take action regarding the future of its pee ple? . lizamPiIstl

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by Ishay Friedman special to Imprint 1 : % North American media, in recent years, has reported extensively on the lack of mathematical and technical knowledge of large segments of the population. However, according to Larry Smith, a lecturer in UW’s Department of Economics, a problem which is potentially just as serious, though rarely discussed, is the problem of economic ignorance. Many people think of economics as an arcane subject in which greying professors use strange diagrams and sophisticated-sounding names to discuss all kinds of strange concepts. However, few disciplines are as relevant to most of the important modem issues as economics is. Smith, who is an economic consultant for both the public and private sectors, has taught economics at UW since 1981. He has also been the cOairector of the Shad Valley pro which brings 45 or so engram, trepreneurially-minded high school students who are very strong in technicaI subjects to UW every summer. of fundamental concern to Smith is the fact that the Canadian population is ignorant of some basic economic facts. Thus, they can be easily swayed by every sophisticatedsounding argument in the media, no matter how absurd it is. For example, according to the host credible international economic source, the &ganization of Economic Cooperation and Develop ment (OECD) based in Paris, Canada has the second highest per capita standard of living in the world, next to the United States. Thus, a lot of arguments based on the premise that Canada must emulate the economic policies of such economic powerhouses as Germany

and Japan are simply flawed. Also, the increase in standard of living of Canadians in the past 30 or so years is second in the industrial world, only to Japan The current recession notwithstanding, the economy in this country is in very strong shape. Smith is disconcerted to see many Canadians being unduly pessimistic regarding the future of the economy. L&e a selffulfilling prophey, this unfounded pessimism may itself hurt the economy in the long run since a pessimistic population will not undertake risky entrepreneurial ventures, which are the basis of economic growth. For example, many Canadians do not perceive Canada as being “internationally competitive” (the new buzzword). Few of us know that Canada exports a higher percentage of its Gross National Product (GNP) than does the United States or Japan If Canadian goods weren’t competitive with those of other countries, Canada would not be able to export so much. (After all, how often do you purposely buy inferior products?) The competitiveness argument should be on how to remain competitive in the future, rather than on how to bsome so. Although there are factors which may be detrimental to long-term Canadian prosperity (such as political instability with respect to Quebec and a workforce which lacks skills), Canada is nowhere near being in dire straits economically. The moral of the story is: next time you tind a newspaper or magazine raging about one of the various socalled “economic crises” (free trade, shopping in the States, government debt, etc.), look for the facts behind the news, and more often than not, you will find that the situation is not nearly as bad as it is being made out to be.

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consin, where he specialized in speech processing. While the system works admirably in the lab, Deng and Erler are quick to note that it is far from a marketable product, There are “a lot

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Dr. ti Deng talks to his computer - not the mutterings of most users behind the keyboard or mouse, but the clear words of

of pieces that would first,” they agree.

someone who thinks the machine can understand. And it can, although even the smartest computer today can’t begin to approach humans in the ability to recognize speech. Machines deal only with a limited number of words that must be clearly pronounced and follow fairly set speech patterns. What’s needed, and what Deng is helping to develop, is a computer that will respond to normal talking more or less the way humans

Their work is almost unique

person in Tokyo to telephone an Englishspeaking person in Toronto and converse freely, with computerized translation in between so each could understand the other. That day is far off, but Deng - a University

of Waterloo professor of electrical and computer engineering 7 is working on a key part of the problem along with a team of graduate students. During the past two years, they have made considerable progress, and now have a system that permits the computer to understand a limited number of English words with 98 per cent accuracy+ The system is even capable of teaching itself to recognize new words. “Getting

a computer

to speak is no longer

much of the problem,” says Deng. ‘We already have reading machines that do this fairly well. But getting computers to recognize speech - to understand’ what you say when you speak to them - is far more difficult. ‘That’s because it’s so complicated. We really don’t know how our brain translates the sound waves that reach our ears into words we can understand. In doing so, the human brain has to take into consideration the fact that there are vast differences in individual voices. We aIso have different ways of saying the same word - we shout it, whisper it. We pronounce words in a variety of ways. “Further, acoustics of sound differ considerably in different contexts. Also, we generally speak in environments where there is considerable background noise. “So, it’s hard to come up with a model that handles all the possible variations. People seldom think about how we actually recognize speech, We do it and it isn’t a problem, but we don’t know how.” Deng saysthat essentially the UW research involves developing algorithms which can form the basis for computer software. Much of his research is done in a Davis Centre lab equipped with large amounts of computer memory, plus a machine that turns voices and other sounds into bright colours flowing across a video screen. The machine, a DSP Sono-Graph, displays a picture of the human voice whenever someone speaks into a microphone. The blip on the screen corresponds to the sound vibrations from the speaker’s lips In addition, the SoneGraph analyses the frequency content of the wave blip on the screen, using a Fourier transform method. This niduces a second picture which shows for any given the it? quency distribution sound. The frequency content of each sound is examined closely: the more energy contained in the sound, the brighter the colours in the pidure. The second illustration makes it possible for the computer to decide what the word is. It can accurately distinguish, for instance, among “key,” “bee,“ and “tee.” Because there can be a variety of shapes or wave-pictures on the Sono-Graph screen for any given word (a simple word such as “boo” can be made to look very different depending on whether it is whispered or shouted, spoken by an adult or child, and so on.) the computer has a hard time sifting through the vast amounts of data represented by conver-

in Canada -

he only other research groups they are aware of in the same area are at McGill University, Montreal, and the National Research Council in Ottawa. “We know

of people in linguistics

who are

doing some related things,” says Deng, “but they have a different approach. They are not trying to build a system the way we are,

do. Japanese researchers have been working for many years to achieve this, perhaps by the mid ’90s. Japan has poured huge amounts of money into its “fifth generation” computer project, with predictions of a day when it would be possible for a Japanese-speaking

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“Single words look quite differently on the screen,” says Kevin Erler, a PhD student who has worked closely with Deng for the past two years. ‘“There are a lot of variables.” “What we have tried to do, therefore, is find a way to permit the computer to recognize a common

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- “Can you 6nagine how easy it would be to use such a system for sending internal memos ‘within a company? The po&ibilities for virtually every aspect of our lives is simply staggering.” l3eng came to UW two years ago after three years with IN&-Telecommunications in Montreal. Before that he earned a PhD at Wis-

While they credit their success so far to their statistical approach, they suspect that from now on the “neuro-network” model will matter more. “Right now we plan to refine our model and test our assumptions,” Deng says. “Eventually we may an&e at a more%o$histicated understanding as to how the brain enables us to undelstand what we hear. When we know more about that, we will surely be able to provide better input into our speech recognition system.”

of ways; then we make use of some

sophisticated statistical methods to identify a common meaningful pattern.” Deng takes up the explanation: ‘Webuild our work, in part, on what is called a hidden h4arkov model. This was developed by mathematicians in the late ’60s. Others have since come to use it for all kinds of purposes, and in our work we find it highly effective, though it was not originally intended to be used for speech recognition. ‘What our system does is try to recognize a common thread - create a template - which will permit the computer to recognize a word whenever it is repeated. This seems more or less what the human mind does when someone talks to us.” This statistical approach is complemented by a second, “neuro-network” approach, which means trying to simulate, on a computer, how the human brain deals with speech. ‘We have software that causes the computer to act much as human brain cells seem to act,” Deng says. ‘We’ve had to make some strong assumptions about brain cells; then we built an algorithm accordingly. “Our model has many nodes representing many brain cells, each @.h many connections. We train the model by letting it “learn” strong the connection the connections -how has to be between one cell or node and another.” While speech-operated machines promise all sorts of breathtaking technological innovations in the future, the UW researchers stress that their primary interests are in fundamental problems. “we are tackling problems of general interest,” Deng explains. ‘We began by accumulating existing technology, to see if we could create something better. We have now succeeded in coming up withsome sophisticated refinements. And our

many

though they may well make important contributions to any new system, But it is surely up to people such as ourselves to do the mathematics and engineering that will actually permit a computer that understands human speech to some onto the market.”

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Although there was a translator along with us on the trip, there was never a language barrier in our group. This was a credit to the invigorating experiences we shared with each other in this remote region. In a few days, we had already formed strong bonds of attachment. We passed along dark, quiet channels surrounded by the stark walls of mountains, swamps where we had to push our way through mud, winding white-water rivers, an open bay where we battled an approaching storm, and the ancient Natsawgan trails that wound through the hills where we portaged our canoes. I tried to maintain a daily journal and take as many photographs as possible, but once we Logan paddling, I found my sense of time and purpose quickly became distorted. The weeklong trip canoeing camping, and hiking in the bush sometimes felt as long as a month or as short as an afternoon. And nothing beyond the canoe or the tent seemed to matter anymore. The constant chum of paddling the canoe made me realize I had muscles where I didn’t even know any existed. Dig@ng the paddle down dragging it across the length of the boat and then forward over water and plunging down again Over and over, powering the canoe along with your partner m be a great feeling for those of us who spend most of our time sitting in lecture halls or offices. After a long day of paddling, you can enjoy just about anything for dinner once you set up camp. Our food was simple but sati&ying. An average meal consisted of lentil soup with carrots, onions, and instant beef gravy asa sauce for~~~potato.Anbfur~allyouneed to do is dip your plastic cup into Temagami’s fkmous crystal clear lake water. After the breath-taking forest-scape of trees and calm water, I returned to Waterloo to see the familiax concrete and steel apartments and sprawling industrial strip malls. Instead of wildlife and the sound of a canoe paddle in the still water, I saw asphalt streets and the ‘exhaust of a steady stream of cars hurrying to their destinations, my own includecL There was a sense of elation to be homeward bound, but also one of deep regret one environment is clean, quiet, and natural and the other busy, noisy, and artificial, Yet even one week in the bush was enough to rejuvenate an otherwise jaded and cynical urbanite. I plan to return to Ternagami this summer. Once is never enough. Temagami out-trips cost between $250 to $500 Cdn. for four days to one week including transportation, food, and outfitting. If you would like to explore Ontario’s rich history and geography, contact Rick Whitteker at the Temagami Wilderness Centre, (705) 56% 3733, for further details.

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It will be over two months before we see the Waterloo Warrior basketball team sweating it out on the PAC hardwood in preparation for the 1991-92 season. But you can rest assured that over the summer months, the team’s stars and prospects aren’t sitting around watching the grass grow. CIAU rookie of the year Sean VanKoughnett and Stetson University transfer product Al Urosevic are two of Waterloo’s star players mrrently involved in some pretty intense international-calibree hoops action. VanKoughnett has been selected to play for Canada’s junior national team for a third straight year. The coaches narrowed down the team roster to 15 players two weeks after tryouts began in Toronto in early *Ye On Monday, Canada’s final 12-’ man roster was announced and the three alternates were sent home. This past weekend, VanKoughnett was worried that because of an abundance of talent on the squad, he might be selected only as a bench player, low on the ladder of 12, or perhaps even being sent home, But much to his amazement, the 67” forward was named to the starting five. And if ever there was a time to be named a starter, it would be this year. The junior national team will be participating in the World Junior Basketball Championships, which tie place only once every four years. Making the starting five for Canada in time for the event was a goal that VanK~~ghmtt set out for himself when

he first tried out with the team in 1989. There are 16 teams participating in the tournament. They will be split into four pools for the opening round. Canada has been drawn into a fairly tough pool, up against Italy, Uruguay, and Angola (one of two African teams in the tournament). CaMda’S second-round opponents will depend upon their win/loss record. After the spring tryouts and many weeks of practice, the team went down to play a couple of exhibition games in Pittsburgh. During one practice, VanKoughnett collided with a teammate and the result was a badly swollen knee. Luckily, the injury not as bad as first thought - happened just before a lo-day break. The knee returned almost to normal for when practices started up again in Edmonton. On June 25, Canada began a sixgame stint over seven nights against Long Beach State. In one close game, VanKoughneti gave his side a onepoint win with a waning seconds shot from three-point range. Next week, Canada will participate in a Pre-World Tournament in I.&bridge against YUgOShVia, USSR and Japan three teams that are in other pools at the World Junior Championships. Yugoslavia and USSR are two of the favorites in the event. Urosevic, meanwhile, survived final cuts to make the roster for Canada’s Pan-Am team. The 6’3” shootig guard is the only rookie on the 120man squad. The players left for Sheffield, England on Wednesday night where they will compete at the World University

Games’ from July 1524. There, Canada is ranked 4th overall in the &team tournament. Their opening round pool opponents are Korea, Hungary, and Spain. When Urosevic and his teammates return from Sheffield, they will have a three-day break before hopping on another plane to Cuba for the PanAm Games. That event will take place from August 3-19. Urosevic is the team’s aggressive three-point specialist, He will play off-guard and be used mainly on the perimeter attack. “At such a competitive level as this, you’ve got to score and produce in order to play,” said Urosevic in a recent phone interview. “Right now I am sky-high to be selected and just honoured to represent the country.” Pan-Am team tryouts began in St. Catharines, Ontario over three weeks ago with 27 players in attendance. After making the first round of cuts, Canada travelled to Florida for a WBL exhibition tour. The team slaughtered a western New York alIstar squad and then got a taste of their own medicine in three games against semi-pro teams Dayton, Nashville, and Tampa. Those three teams are in a farm system for pros. Urosevic, a Kitchener native, transferred to UW from the NCAA Division 1 Stetson University team in Florida last year, and now after the mandatory one year inactive period, Urosevic can begin playing for the Waterloo Warriors in September. Neither player will speculate on the upcOming varsity season, but One thing is sure; these two aggressive shooters will certainly be lighting up some high numbers on the scoreboard.

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Wet Goats From Hell Again in ar exciting “A” league final. Down bj one at the half, the Hogsmen used E six-point run in the second period tc out-distance their opposition 63-54. In “B” league division 1 action, wventh-seeded HOOP Bandits defeated Home Shopping Network (5) 47-30. Drew DavidsOn led all Korers with 16 points. Dark and White Meat won the division 2 final in a nail-biter 38-34 over the Windsor Ninja Turtles. Farley Caesar was Instrumental in the win, leading his team on defknce while adding 12 points. In division 3 action, Too Shari defeated St. Paul’s 31-27. Too Shod gotoff toa&kstartwitha7&urr and led 17-6 at the half.* .St. Paul% .

seed SOUL Ate defeat CSA 37-22 Punkaj Aroroz and NiIesh Kotari each scored eight points in a winning cause.

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r Game (ASG) is in the mzss of ruining baseball, and one ntral quasi-myth/quasi-reality is at e heart of it: that the ASG is “the

inning the weekend just priorto the AS&As for Canseco, though he acts like an arrogant goof, he is leading the Major Leagues in home-runs. The fans vote in the starters; the managers of both All-Star teams round off the squads. Now, most players have bonuses in their contracts that stipulate monetary rewards - usually hefty - for being selected. Thus, practically every player on&e SkyDome field Tuesday night made many thousands of dollars because the fans voted them in.’ They received money for being popular* On top of that, if a player is in a position for contract talks, the issue of his ASG appearance is sure to be raised. Yet, unlike the League Championship Series, or the World Series, a player does not necessarily deserve to be on the 6eld for an ASG. Thus, in

averyrealway,thefansinfiuencethe game in a manner that they shouldn’t. I propose no solution to the fan

vote probl~ but it is not the mo& pressing isme. The fan vote - sponsored by USA Today - is simply used to convince the m24ssesthatthe game is for the fans, when it r&y is

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emy out:-Fred McGriff, Noian - Jose CanyaQ and - . incredibly . _d. . _ seco were left oti tne American League team, even though the ancient Ryan had thrown a no-hitter this spring, and lost one in the ninth

not. It belongs to Lab&b Blue, the Fuji Blimp, Nike, the city of Toronto, SkyDome, Coke, and so on. All of the above stand to gain a lot from the game, whereas the fan derives little. Thatthe game is a huge marketing scam is obvious and needs no

& a half explanation or discussion, and indeed, it’s being pirated is not unique* Far from it: where two or more people draw together in the name of an organized event, a marketer shall be in their midst. But regardless of how cliched and whiney it soutis, the fans are consumers and - as the word implies -are being consumed. Even the so-called “Fan Eest,” held for a few days before the game, had an admission price, an event that was little more than ,a huge advert for Coke. Everysinglebas&allgameisbeing hijacked by corporate blood-suckers; this seems to be inevitable and dictated by the tenets of capitalism. But most ball games mean something at least in terms of basebaIL They are real games with real strategies whereinthepurposeisnottogetas many players in t& game as possible in order to placate the fans, but to win The fans get something in return for watching a regular season or postseason game. The AlI Star Game once served a purpose. In an age before television - and corporate piracy - it was the only chance for fans to see all the names they had heard and read about. This function has ceased to be, and the ASG itself should as well. The ASG has become a parody of baseball, a non-game. And its value is measured in dollars; just ask the Toronto Chamber of Commerce.

’ Juliari Cope!

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This witl sound like hyperbole but it is not: Julian Cope is a lunatic, a madman, a terminal flake. While Cope’s current LP m Suicide may have displayed some lingerjng vestiges of sanity, they were forever dis$led by h&Performance at RPM last week. Cope’s 90-minute-plus stage show routinely sent eyebrows crawling up foreheads, and. jaws crashing onto chests. Luckily, crazy people m vev entertaining. Julian’s antics saved the evening from being just another round of alternative pop music. Instead, it was a veritable rock ‘n’ roll Ci.KUS. The big top really got going about 15 minutes into the show, with the performance of a Teardrop E’xplodes oldie, “Sleeping Gas.” HEAR Julian roar like a great veldt lion! SEE Julian prance and flit around the stage at a mile a minute! (It was as if a baboon were possessed by the spirit of Lherace.) FEEL Julian’s sweaty body atop your head and shoulders, as he doestheinfamousCROwDCRAwL! ‘l’hecrowd, of course, responded in kind: growing him, high-fiving him, egging him on When Juliin hkd up his shorts at the backand waggled his pasty white butt, his adoring fans displayed awe, wonder - and yes, even a little fear. But there was more to the concert than mere visual lunacy. Cope’s ludicrous stage presence didn’t dampen the undeniable power of the music he offered. His three-man band was tight, controlled and often brilliant Besides Julianand the drummer, there were two multiinstnrmentalists who swapped guitars, bass guitars, double-necked guitars, keyboards, and guitars throughout the show. They were also he@d out by a generous sampling of backing tapes, which, for example, provided the keyboard and horn parts for “Beautiful Love.” Let’s hear it for the Magic l?iano.

Well, you know how it is when you to get everyone together. You make a few calls, you arrange a time and a place to meet. Easy? Not quite. One is late at work, one has a few phone calls to make, one really wants to eat before Leaving someone shows up from out of town and almost ruins everyone’s plans. The reason I am telling you all of this is that by the time we got everyone together at Lee’s, we had missed the firstband, Straightjacket Fits. Sorry. are try&g

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The song selection showcased the new project w Stricide, but also provided a fairly decent overview of Cope’s career. Besides ‘crowdpleasers like “SPacehopper” and ‘World Shut Your Mouth,” Cope turned in cuts from rare, semibootleg releases like Sk@Zingtm and Droolian. In fact, the only L;p to be completely ignored was ’88s My Nutim Undetgmmd. Cope’s voice was in fine form throughout, undimmed by his years of chemical excess. His lyrics could often be daffy - who woulda thought - but were rarely banal or insipid. Cope’s lyrica concerns were as varied as his musical styles. With

This review, unfortunately, must come to a rather abrupt end, because there is really not a whole lot more to tell you about. Their encore set, “Swashbuckler” (or “Swoshbuckler” as it says on the set-list.. . you be the and the purely judge), “Over,” delightful ‘There She Goes,” their high-rotation indie-pop hii singIe. Despite its popularity, it is very much an epitome of pure Pop sound. I defy anvone to tell me that their toes &&nz

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So, for all of you who missed the show - don’t make the same mistake twice.

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The band rose to and showcased Cope’s remarkable strengths as a so@&. The constant stylehopping was a testament to Cope’s talent, and the band was never less than convin~.‘They could create moments of perfect pure pop, like ‘IJnisex Cathedral,” and then switch to straightforward guitar rock (“Out of my Mind,” “SunsPots”) or Mancunian dance grooves (“Head,” “‘I&t Easy Rider”).

do not know who the La’s are, you’re missing out (but you can check the last issue of Imprint for reviews of their album.) They started their set with some high-powered infectious pop: “Son Song,” and of a Gun, ” “Freedom “Clean Prophet.” They followed with several cuts from their album and then some; all their songs are a wonderful combination of jangle guitars, exuberant tempos, and sweet, sweet melodies. The band (four of them) are all very cute boys, to boot.

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‘~rskin,” he was explicitly poIitiCal, dedicating the tune to “the Thatcher bitch.” ‘l?risteen” was a more personal love/hate kind of thing. “Bill Drummond Sakl” was even more personal: a swipe at his former manager. And to top it all off, there was the comic-book fantasy of the encore, ‘Reynard the FOX.”

‘Reynard” mirrored the concert as a whole: melodr,mtic, in many ways ridiculous, yet undeniably effective and genuinely unnerving. However, the claustrophobia the song generated did suffer a bit from this year’s installment of Stupid Microphone Tricks. Julian simulating hurikin’ with the mic just once might have been a pretty cool idea, but by the fifth or sixth time it pretty much lost any effect it might have had. Overall, though, it was as entertaining a show as you’re ever likely to see. Aside from being more purelyhn than anything else around, the show also comes with a solid foundation of quality songwriting and performance. Should you ever have the chance, do not hesitate to catch the Julian Cope Peggy Suicide Revue.

Tragically Hip!

word is that you’re missing your chance to see a Canadian legend in action.

by TmXemedy TInprint staff If you haven’t had a chance to see the Tragically Hip this summer, well.. . I’m sure you can still manage to get ri ed off by a scalper at the Ontario P &pce Forum in August, but if not, the

The IIip’s lead vocalist, Gordon Downie, confirmed the band’s status at their first of three shows at Toronto’s Concert Hall last week when he referred to himself and fellow band members -as Piece Trudeau Of course, no one can say exactly what Dotie meant by that (part of the fun of seeing the Hip perform is trying to figure out exactly what Downie means, if anything), but the Hip’s name is fast becoming as well known as Trudeau’s in Canada and other Parts of the world.

The Tragically Hip have drawn a large following of faithful fans over the Past few years thanks mostly to their magnetic (thanks in turn to Downie’s maniacal) performances on stage. Their show at the Concert Hall was much mdre lethargic than what fans have come to expect from the Kingston boys, but it was easy to forgive them. If you were there, you now bow

what it feels Iike to be a sar-

dine in hell. Was it hot? Downie’s jeans were completely soaked before the end of the night and not because anyone spilled anything on them. When the Concert Hall is filled to capacity, it

could be more “Concert Oven”’ Sauna.” (It’s the suffering from

aptly calld the the or even the “Concert place to be if you’re water retention and

want to sweat off a few pounds!)

But the evenktg’s biggest dip pointment was the opening act, Flies on Fire. This is a band that can’t yet stand on its own It can’t even stand on Hip’s support. The lead vocalist strutted on stage in a bad imitation of Mick Jagger, and his Jimmy Hendrix

T-shirt drew almost as much applause from the crowd as his exit (even 1 cheered then). Flies on Fire’s greatest merit was their ability to bang their heads and ah24ke their shaggy hear around - in synchronicity! The band’s most talented member? He who could chew gum, smoke a cigarette, and play guitir all at the same time. Imagine that! Such talent is hard to find these days. In fact, it’s almost as rare as a Jimmy Hendrix T-shirt!

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This is,our kind of town chfidren, a boy and a girl. Of course, the oldest child of each family, AM Baggley as the freshly scrubbed Emily Webb and Andrew Dolha as the handsome but flaky George Gibbs, are best friends and, upon puberty, fall in love.

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Early twentieth century American plays usually do not provide the same opportunity for directorial license as do those of Shakespeare, the meat of Stratford’s fare. In the case of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, this is a l3d thing. Of course, the detail of the narrative precludes shifting it from one era to another as is so often done with the Hamlets of this world. As the director’s influence is less felt, so it is that the actors’ performances take on so much more importance.

The main actor in this play, of course, is Douglas Rain playing the Stage Manager, a character who shows us through the town of Grover’s Comers, New Hampshire, organizes the other characters’ demonstrations of the details of their daily lives, and grants us permission to leave at the intermissions. Rain reflects his 27 years of Stratford experience with a witty, wistful portrayal of the conductor of this _ morality play. The Stage Manager Performs two main functions: to provide us with enough landscape without elaborate sets or props and to point out and describe the details to us. And details ‘are the important things in this Play* Rain leads us through three stager oflifeinthreeactsinthissmalltO~, from the years 1901 to 1913, concerttrating on two families: the Gibbs and the Webbs, Dr. Gibbs is one of the respetted medical men of the town, and Editor Webb (a Part close to my heart for obvious reasons) edits the town pape*: There is a reassuring symmetry in these families: Mrs. Gibbs and Mm. Webb are both hardworking housewives who each have two

The daily rituals in any small town are stressed in the first act, starting in the early morning - foe Crowell (Geoffrey Bnunlik) delivering the morning paper and Howie Newsome (Roger Honeywell) the milk. Through the homespun, documentary-style treatment of these regular happenings given by the Stage Manager, we come to appreciate their simplicity and their, well, regularity. These things do not seem to be part of a boring routine; the teenaged first love is as fresh as our forgetful memories depict + childhood to be. Expressing your first love over an ice cream soda is a cliche, certainly, but never seems like such with the Stage Manager stepping into the play to perform a masterful mime of manufacturing this treat at the town drug store. Following the stages of life, the second centres around Emily and George’s wedding and the third Emily’s death in childbirth. Though the most awkward and ham-fisted of the three stanzas, this last one about deathtiestogetherandamplifiesallof the salient themes in the play. It seems that the spirits of the town deceased reside in the cemetery; after Emily’s committal to the ground, she becomes aware of these entities and comes to talk to her moth&n4aw, Mrs. Gibbs. .

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like a Dickensian ghost of C~&IXMS some time, the Stage Manager~t&d+elastre~~t of e~~&eming another day, just so that she could redy appreciate the details of fleeting life. The ghostsurge her to chose art unimportant day, but she cheats a bit and selects her 12th bbthd2lJL

In fairly predictable horror, she discove= that her fady members act the same way they did the first time: not appci&lg the life around them and merely rushing along toward death.

We are left with a sombre but refreshed feeling. The message is clear: appreciate every moment and detail of life. But the message is clouded by the realization that most of us do not do this. As Emily asks of Mrs. Gibbsin the graveyard at the top of the hill, “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it - every, every minute?” As Robin Williams urged us in Dead Poets &c&y, so Wilder advised decades before: pay attention,

.Watch for more rewews of Stratford

plays in future issues!

Chirpy chirpy cheer, by Stacey Lobin wetaff I got a chance to interkiew Birdland, a rock’n’roll with a dash of thrashbandfromEnglandwhenthey zipped through Toronto earlier last week Never heard of them? I’m not surprised. They’re popular on the indie charts in Britain, but relatively unheard of here. However, it’s early days yet to wonder if they’re going to make it or break it in the States and Canada. So I met Simon (bass) and Kale (drums)inalittlediveinTO,theo~y place in the city where you can get just a bowl of sauteed mushrooms, which Simon adores. Yikes. Like all hard-working bands, they were tired, they were irritable, and they were pretty incoherent, so please excuse the rambling. I decided to get the interview ott to a good start by immediately annoying them. Birdland is notorious for creating havoc on stage; their first date in the States, a little showcase gig, ended two minutes after it started when they smashed all their instruments.

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“It really irritates me when people think we’re uncontrollable because that’s just how we play - it’s not what we’re like in real life. We like to move around on stage. I can’t stand bands who just stand around and don’t do anything for the crowd/ Simon said. “But that’s just the kind of music they play,‘Xale interrupted. “A band like Japan, for instance, didn’t have to do a whole lot. The crowd was still pretty excited. Anyway, you just can’t pogo to Ghosts’.” “We just do what the music tells US to do,” Simon continued. “?I mean, it’s like smashing your finger in the door - you get mad and you want to hit something. If you’re on stage and

something happens like your amp goes, the only thing you can do is run your guitar through the amp. It’s a violence thing, really, but ours is a good violence, a positive violence, not negative. It gives a positive energy to the crowd I mean, people come to see Birdland to see a rock show. Birdland’s not Nelson.” I guess while they were doing a spot on MuchMusic, they had the glorious opportunity to meet pop tarts Nelson Truly, the only thing in common between the two groups is their blondie hair. I decided to annoy them further, and asked them what they thought about the criticisms of their music: that they sound like late 7Os Ramones. ‘They say that abut every band snapped Simon defen~cv!+f sively. ‘They say that your Songs aren’t very good, but that they’re a very good imitation of something else. They used to say that the Doors’ LA Woman was a badly written album, but that it was a great blues albwn, That’s crap.” (This is what I meant about them being incoherent) “Sure, we may sound like other things, but everyone’s influenced by someone. We’re four guys in a band, who write their own songs and play their own instruments and produce the sound we want to. We’re not like Nelson,” Kale said with a distasteful twist of his lips, “who go into a studio and are told what to play and how to play it, and whose sound is overproduced There’s no merit in thaL” Simon’s mushrooms arrived by this point, and we wondered at his unusual taste. Kale told us about Simon’s other love, faggots, which are big, greasy meatballs that are comprised of the end bits of mystery meats, He indicated something about the size of two Ms. Yikes. In the meantime, I happened to notice

Kale’s legs. It’s not like I was looking under the table on purpose or anything, but. . . never mind. The thing is, his ankles are almost as skinny and f=q$e as mine. Birdlegs, more like, Anyway, I asked about plans for their new album. Kale answered, ‘we’ve got about six songs written for the next album, but we don’t have a very clear concept of what we want it to be. But it’s going to be a better one than this one.” &et5 hope SO - ed) Simon added ‘Yes. We’re pretty tired of this one, because we’ve been playing these songs over and over for the past three years. But there’s always people who will say that our first album is the best” ‘7 hope not,” Kale said. “It’s like U2 fans who bought Boy and loved it, then bought the next album and diddt realize that the one song, “Gloria,” was better than anything on Boy. Our next album is going t0 sound like our song “Exit” on this album. We’re not going to be like those Manchester bands with onesyllable names who keep turning out the same music.” So is Birdland the next big thing after Manchester? ‘q hope not,” Kale laughed, ‘because everyone will sound like us and we won’t sell any records.” Simon pushed away his empty bowl. We shivered. ‘The whole Manchester scene is so closely related to fashion We don’t have that same sort of link to anything otherwise everyone would be smashing their g&ars. We hope people don’t come to the concert and expect to see a freak show. I mean, we don’t sit in OUT hotel and plan these things out.” “We hope peo@e will be stimulated,” Kale finished. So we just chatted for a while about movies YlMn’t Terminator 2 coat $86 billion?“) and records and sunburns, but that’s not really relevant They made their way back to City TV, to deal with Erica’s grilling. I hoped they wouldn’t come to blows with Nelson

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Two chicks + one car 2 one great movje - Thelma, the movie takes place all within the span of four or five days, after their getaway weekend goes awry and the two find themselves trapped in a snowball effect of trouble as they

dense - but lovable

cruise

the countryside

57 T-bird What do you get when two bored women take off for a girl’s weekend at the cabin and things don’t go quite as planned? An action-packed, breathtaking and absolutely hilarious movie called ;ntulma and

The audience can’t help but love them both, and together they make an amazing combination, with both Sarandon and Davis’s powerful perform&es creating an amazing screen presence. Their characters truly capture the human spirit, showing two young women who finally discover what it is really tie to let loose and live! One of the most refreshing things about the film is its portrayal of women gone wild, doing all the down and dirty things that men have been

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Set in the southwestern Untied States, the film shows the always unpredictable and very funny adventures of waitress gone wild (Susan Sarandon) and bored housewife transformed (Geena Davis) burning a hilarious trail of crime across the diesel- and dust-filled states of Texas and New Mexico. With Sarandon as kuise, the big sister figure and brains of the pair, and Davis as the hilarious, naive, and

doing for years. It’s a kind of modernday, female version of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and judging by the audiences reaction in the theatre, they loved it! The plot is unpredictable, action-packed, and extremely funny, although Ridley still sneaks .in a few sentimental scenes as

well, giving the movie the perfect balance.. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, the film also has a terrific soundtrack and breathtaking scenery, including some fantastic shots of the desert and the Grand Canyon, which make the film even more enjoyable for the audience. Some critics have given Thelma and Guise a very poor rating, accusing the film of seeting bad role models for females and being nothing more than a vicious attack against

men in general, but I couldn’t agree more strongly. Thelma

shows women doing all the nasty things that thousands of other men have been getting away with for decades in the movies, and have been regarded as heroes for. Louise

Where shall I begin? Rambo, Steven Segal, Clint E&wood, Arnold Schwartzeneggar, Charles Bronson, and others have been brutally murdering, bfowing-up, demolishing, and destroying everything and anything that gets in their way for years and they are literally worshipped in North American society. So how come when two women get a little rowdy in a movie for a charige, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and condemti the film? Get real, people. The double standard ispasseandIthinkitisaboutti.methat movies showed women getting a piece of the action. As far as the alleged “men bashing” in the film, the only men who were targeted in the

Titan~ic titanium.tussle vision of a far future of seige from computerized warriors, and a near future of nuclear holocaust, are vivid

Thminator 2: Judpent Lky l&c&d by James Cameron

and disturbing.

Terminator II weaves

examinations of tech&ear, parental roles, and nuclear immolation into two-hoursplus of gripping and slick entertainment. Strangely enough, not since fames Cameron’s Aljew has a mainstream movie so gripped and held for its duration. Once Cameron establishes his themes, they stomp through the movie with aI1 the subtlety of a Mike Tyson uppercut.

by PauI Done rxnprintstaff In retrospect, James Cameron’s apocalyptic vision, as expressed first in 1984’s T~nutur, was nothing short of visionary. In substituting a Silicon menace for the Red menace which was so much a part of western consciousness for the past forty years, Cameron tapped into the fear and anxiety which accompanies the unimpeded s read of technology. Given the co % pse of much of the perceived Soviet threat, along with the ever-eqnding software net which defines much of out modem cu.IturaI existence, the ideas of Ti minator have 0nIy incred in saIience. The second inst&nent of the Terminato~ has assumed commercial dimensionS equivalent in scale to star Arnold Sch-enegger’s bulging prqmtions. Thankfully, the $88 million do&us worth of spectacle hang upon an art&tic skeleton of sufficient substance to make Tenninafor I. J-t Duy much more than a vapid deathstravaganza. In the midst of the &rtoonish violence, the bleak

The characterizations offer some well-thought out surprises; Arnold has become humanized, as a robotic sentinel sent back to protect the future human leader (John Connor, played by Edward Furlong) against the attacks of an even more formidable robotic assassin than he. bda Hamilton, as Sarah Connor, the target in the original movie, has become a gun-toting pumped-up survivalist. The moviti’s outset also fmds her institutio~lized because of her vision of the horri& nuclear immolation which awaits humankind.

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Open Doors is an arid little Italian study on capital punishment, set in Sicily in 1937, during the reign of Fascism. It begins intensely enough, with three murders, committed all in the same day by Tommaso ScaIia (EMio Fantastichini). We don’t know much about Tommaso, Fxcept that he has been fired from the Fascist Confederation of Professionals and Artists and that he is nervous killing the man who &d him. Amelia, who co-wrote the screenplay based on honardo Sciascids novel, pulIs a fast one at the end with a final-hour insight by one of of the jurors (played by Renato Cavntieri);but

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tor, and even of teacher, as the young Connor learns that power demands self-control.

This isn’t the first time

that James Cameron has played with conventional parental models by assigning human traits to the inhuman. The mother alien in Aliens presented us with an uncaring (and some claimed racist, xenophobic) image of a mass-productive mother. This image was contrasted to the onechild wasp mother image in Sigourney Weaver. For sheer adrenaline-charged action, Terminator II is nearly a new record must unparalleled have been set for the amount of ordinance fired in a non-military movie scenario. The special effects, particularly the liquid Terminator T1000, are first-rate (even though the effect was bcmowed from Cameron’s last film, Abyss).

Thelma and Lou& is a definite must-see film, and is already predicq ted by many critics to be one of the years top10 movies. I wouldn’t be ai all surprised if Sarandon and Davis both received Oscar nominations for their powerful performances. Just one final question though - what the hell happened in Texas???

in T II

Linda Hamilton’s is easily the most compelling and interesting character in the film. She has been completely transformed from the whimpering victim of the first movie, to a gun: toting hellion. She’s a s&thing mass of desperation and fanaticism. The character of Sarah Connor is also the vessel through which the primary themes are expressed: the fear of nuclear war, and the idea that “there is no -fate except what we make.” Instead of the fatalist content to be dragged about by Michael Biehn, she is fiercely determined to controt her destiny. One of the elements which gives the Tminatur concept such resonance is the fear and resentment of technology which ethos in modem society. Even though Arnold has been humanized, the prime villain of the movie is still robotic. In fact, Robert Patrick’s T-1000 model does not even have the external flesh membrane - Be Terminator’s all metal this time.

Though less imposing than Arnold’s bulky presence, Robert Patrick is admirably icy as the new Terminator. One can only wonder if Cameronisawarethat,becausetheT1000 spends much of the movie disguised as a cop, people might believe that he is by implication calling police killers?

film got exactly what they deserved No questions asked. Besides, if I was to get into all the women-bashing attitudes portrayed in fihns today, I would need a couple of more days. Whether the film interests you or not, you simply must see it, if for nothing else than to see its zowi&icker ending. I have never seen anything quite like it, and it is guaranteed to leave you speechless, a little sad, bul still feeling very satisfied. Without a doubt, you’ll leave the theatre with a smile on your face and feel@ exhilarated, not to mention feeling very sure that you got your $8 worth.

Unlike most sequels, Ewninutorh does not leave the door open fat more - it obliterates the influence d the future upon the past - even obliterating the future it posits at the outset. It leaves human beings in charge of their own destiny, with no fate except what they make for themselves, and no saviours except for themselves. Without pandering to a shallow happy ending James Cameron has fashioned created a dark and obsessive vision of the future which leaves questions unanswered. Sarah Connor’s closing narration, “If a Terminator can learn the value of human life, then perhaps we can/ echoes in the ears of the viewers as they leave the theatre.

The original TCinato~ was a classic within its genre - in&&gent andkinetic.I%rtIIismoreofbc&A masterpiece of pop culture which succeeds in communicating ideas of graviw to the masses.

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characters is abstruse and the arguments against capital punishment are remote and passionless carried on behind closed doors. The visionary juror, a larmer, turns out to have inherited a huge library, and that’s where he got his humanitarian ideas. The film’s condescending closing has Vito and the noble peasant wandering through wheat fields reading

Dostoevsky.

Vito has a close relationship with his small, motherless daughter, but when he’s with his peers he seems as apathetic and bourgeois as any of them. He just happens to be on the liberal side of the fence: it’s still an intellectual exercise. Volonte’s shifting, unreadable expressions make the judge an enigma and with “the Monster ,of Palermo” being, of necessity, an unfathomable black pit himsey the movie degenerates into an idle discussion by uninvolved parlies.

of how exactly the defen(It’s as if Amelio were pretending he’s above cou$room drama, despite all the . Director Cianni AmeL wastes no theatrical courtroom scenes he has time bringing Tommaso to court. An just included.) Amelia’s take on the

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For John Connor, the cyborg assumes a parental role - of protec-

disand

angry demands

mob denounces him and the death penalty; Tom-

maso breaks his stony silence with a memorized speech about the sorry state of the nation and the elorv of Mussolini. The Chief M&&ate (Renzo Giovampietro) considers it an open-and-shut case, but Judge Vito Di Francesco (Gian Maria Volonte) wants to probe and uncover as many details as possible. The film now takes on Vito’s point-of-view. This sounds reasonable enough, but Amelia, in hi determination to expunge his picture of all convention, leaves us very few crumbs. For a long time it seems as if Vito is just playing around in the courtroom, amusing himself; his questions are sensible and psychological, but his tightlipped smile makes Tommaso’s excbtion ‘“this judge just wants to shine at my expense” seem lucid. Open Doors doesn’t try to proselytize, but it doesn’t try to tell a story either. It has only flashes of meaning. The single powerful image is in the Dostoevsky quote. What’s the point of making the movie then?

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and have slipped into more ident& able rock-star personas. They have had time to fine-tune their act, to the .crowd’s benefit. Now, however, the little malicious

Concert Hall July 9‘1991

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by Stacey Lobin

Now you’ve

ThdhShTest~ Phil’s Gtundsort ‘s Place July 10,1991

just gotta know

that

this show is probably not going to be particularly avant garde or innovative

when AMlO9’s Tino Monte (or Tito Puente, or Gino Pii, I’m sure I don’t know) vaults on to the stage to hear himself introduce the band. Thankfully, Roberts’ face during Tino’s AM109 masturbatory stroke excused this little oversight on behalf of the promoters. If I had to sum up the vastly overSome bands arrest you instrumenpriced $10 concert in one succinct, yet tally, others vocally, still others encapsulating word, that word would visually. It would not be entirely original nor exactly intuitive to say have to be “pleasant.” The crowd, a blur of sockless that the strength of the Crash Test hazy, saccharine and neatly dishevelled Dummies lies in the kingdom of boatshoes shoulder length hair, all satin pleavoice. by the -1991 has been very good to this sant lines mesmerized Winnipeg-based outfit; they have a thoroughly pleasant performance (or in the case of a few in the front row, by new album under their seatbelts, the ability to peek up Ellen Reid’s regular airplay on all audio and visual airwaves, and sellout wherever they may go. Phil’s was no exception

houses

last Wednesday as a surprisingly wide array of fans congregated to see if Brad Roberts’ voice realty was that deep and powerful. While his voice handily met expectations, the physicality of this frontrnan contrasted drastically. In fact when wielding an acoustic guitar, I was reminded of Jack (of beanstalk fame} battling futilely with something 60 times his size.

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Kicking the night off with the “The Ghost that Haunts Me,” the title track from the debut album, The Dummies plowed CD perfect through all crowd favs like “Androgynous” (an old Replacements song), “At My FuneraI,” and of course, “Superman’s Song.” Unfortunately, Roberts’ selfadmitted, prerehearsed, betweensong banter did little to enhance the lyric-oriented music, especially when

’ Painting The “Mow

Smiths

Wildereading audience. No ‘doubt it was kmt cm Ferrkk herself. &ter Ferrick Mt, a tew more songs @a@ over the spdcem including the ctrighd version df ‘Golden

y Sandy Atwal mprfnt-ff If MoFrimey’s popularity has l.imhhhed with his last aIbum and ince his parting

with

Relancholy Mancunian’s rut in legion to witness

Li#&” A shitty sow indeed, but it had the audience chee&g as though someone had just told them Johnny Man w&Id be joining the band.

The Smiths,

me would be hard pressed to prove his at Kingswood last Friday. The fans were

Morrissey’s irst appearance in over three years. %is time around, the fans began to ine up in droves over four hours &ore the gates were opened. Phranc, the original opening act, anceIled due to illness and was eplaced at the last minute by Melissa herri&, oops that’s Ferrick, from Lo&on. &r&k redefined cheap rowd applause as she asked the rowd no less than four times “Are ‘0~ ready for Morrissey?” You brouldn’t believe how ready. _

deserves.

To further exemplify the pleasantness of the evening. what little dancing did occur (you guessed it, only during the encore) adopted the nature of tepid slam dancing. Picture this: Slam, giggle, apology. Slam, giggle, apology. . . kooky stuff. Every review or reference to this band notes the strong Celtic influence (I’m sorry, but one mandolin and one penny whistle does not a Celtic influence make) fused with R & 8, rock and roll, and a little bit of country. So basically, what they must be saying is that Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid are Winnipeg’s answer to an Irish Donnie and Marie. Have you heard anything more pleasant?

A huge projection ot a tuxedowearing singer, uncanny in his =mbIance to Jim Nabors, floated onto the back of the stage. Opera music blasted through the air and the crowd rose to their feet. Mo&sey and his band came on and started the set with a bntastic version of %teresting Drug.” mroughout &&qqx+rformeili?Zce a trZLZZ a playboy. He pranced about the 9t;a8e in his oversized cardigan, &gxtecl gladiolas and cltrled into the &+&tion a couple of times. Being ~@t&@istanceofanyperform may be fantastic, . . but-. at a

Momssey true The

snow, wltn nundrffls ot Smiths changed my Me”

hns at your side, the concert was no doubt earth-shattering. -. r.** , At one time, Morrissey tell back into the audience ready to be carried around, but his trip was cut short and pafraps his celibacy compromised

w&n a sweet and tender hooligan jumped squarely on top of him Another fanatic spent some time dandng on stage before escorted offstage That (of course) what you expect at a Morrissey show, and that (of course) is the problem. AI1 of the trappings have worn their funniness down to the bone, and they can only carry a performance so far before

over, and

now you get the reaI dirt So now I know why the lead singer always wore those ml& ugly hats to cover up his really ugly hair. He

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IwaIkdintothecon~Hall... atlci I felt old. I felt old - I wore the bottom of my cut-&3 rolled. Everyone else had th& cut-offs trendily fmyed. It certainly was a young crowd, but that’s what EMF is all about: exuberance, rambuncti0usness, and the sheer joy of youth. it was a greilt show. Everyone was there for a party, and EMF delivered. But if I was going to write a rave review, it would probably end right here. How much further could I go without repeating myself? It would befar more interesting of course, to teU. you about the bad stuff. So here I go (rustle your paper in anticipation). The opening band, Teknicolor Raincoat, was really bad. The only reason I mention them is that we actually got to the show in time to hear them.

So, three months later . , . is EMF any greater? When they played i.n Toronto at the beginning of April, they were young fresh up’n’cbmers, dazzled by the attention they were getting. Now, EMF are a lot more polished, have a little more panache,

a vulgar

title of Ferrick’s East song, the Leader” was no doubt

lo& on the gladiola clutching, T-shirt-wearing, Uscar

it breached the prime time Andrew Dice CIay front. The only laughter heard was nervous guffaws from the under-agers who probably couldn’t believe they got into Phil’s in the first place. I’m not sure, but I think he said the ‘T” word once or twice. A definite highlight, if not showstealer, had to be when Reid was given the centre mike to reveal the true confidence and range of her vocal ability. It really is hard for a band to go too far wrong with doubIebarreled strength at the microphone. I hope that her vocal contribution on the next album reaps the attention it

had thin lackluster dreads, tied up a la party girl style on top of his head

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he shurus the Same hidrawt

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must be something in the Evian water. Derry trashed his sampler (again), which just goes to show that he is completely superfluous. Au of his bits were on backing tapes . . . oh, the backing tapes, There was one song that the singer introduced, saying they had only played it once before; that may very well be true, since the whole thing was on tape. How do I know? Because it was the only song that night during which one could hear the vocals clearly and distinctly. I’m jvst glad that no-one got hit by the sampler, which spent a great deal of time arcing gracefully through the air. When the show ended, I was a little worried about the hissing in my ears (I didn’t think the sound had been thatloud), but then someone turned off the backing tapes and the great thump made my ears pop and I was fine. And that, my friends, is my ohre metaphor in homage to fine live music everywhere.

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encore ‘Visappointed” the drummer did a fine job of making sound like “How Soon is NOIf). It Was a fine performance but in0 doubt most people were expecting mother set instead of a one song

(which

encore. Of course what was probably the biggest disappointment was that, no Smiths songs appeared tonight, one wonders if that was a bad thing considering the obvious ineptness &

the band but even they could have done a decent job of “Panic” or “The Boy with the Thorn in His Side.”

Uverall,

however the p&ormance despite the problems. It’s hard to criticize one of your favourite artists, but Morrissey now

was enjoyable

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becoming unfunny. M-needs to rely more on I&I mt songwr& ing and what he learned from Marr

and less on his reputation.

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ChhttMS compilation. “Suedehead,” “Everyday is Lke Sunday,” and “November Spawned a Monster”all made appearances while Morrissey still included rarer songs and &ides such as “I Wa Never Marry” and ‘That’s Entertainment” “bt of the Famous Intematiord hyhys” and “‘November” were d&mite high&h@ accented by a simple but effective light system, whereas

other

“PicadiIly I?&&’ simply seemed unrehearsed. OveraIl, the songs were well performed and for the most part people got their money’s worth. However,

the show

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share of moments tdy disqpointing.

that were truly, The band meme hers, with the exception of a fine dnlmrner, WeFe idiots It’s not that they were baa but in an attempt to appear as un-Smiths like as possible, the guibists jump4 amund in an attempt to look energetic but succeeded

only in looking

like they had

to go to the loo. in addition to this, for a few soq3st thehighervctcalsi.nsomeoftheSongs were beii sung by the guitarist

the best of times, they were too loud, and at the worst, they were out of tune and came very close to ruining several couldn’t

songs.

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I once stopped an impartia passerby with this question: “Car ybu describe a UW math student? When he told me they were humuurless, stoic book zotibies with nc signi&nt creativity, I grew troubled Are they all like that? We& it’s &eshing to see two talented local bands endeavoring to change that stereotype. Yes siree, Aftermath and Integration by Parts

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of music, so get out there and soak it up. These math& deliver the rock.

The set was extremely short; an hour including the aptly titled, but

If you’re an ardent Eurythmics fan like me, then the idea of agreatest hits album is a dream come true. Imagine all their best cuts compiled into one exclusive package. Songs like “Sweets Dreams” and “Right By Your Side,“and classics like ‘Here Comes The Rain”and ‘7 Need a Man” fill the album with the sweet sounds of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart The tracks are not obscure.. . but as a fan, there were a few of my personal favourites that were missingFrom a commercial point of view, thisalbumisafinecatchforanymusic lover. If you already like the sound of the EurytIuGcs, this Gm@t H& package shauld make you fall head over heels in love with the band. All the tracks are remarkable examples of the vocal power of Annie Lennox combined with the production genius of Dave Stewart. While some Greatest Hits packages tend to be disappointing because of lack of varied content, this one is so detailed and complete that the listener could not possibly want more. It is like eating a big meal after

It seems official: the Violent Fernmes have eschewed lush production and rededi~ted themselves to a busking sound Their last album embraced this pared down format; ififvee was a return to the sound that

they pioneered three albums earlier, on their debut self-titled album. For the most part, ;T;hm was a welcome failure: a failure because it ultimately didn’t present a decent number of good song, but welcome because it was a radical shift from the trend toward over-production of their two previous records, and, in its own right,--- contained much promise. Why Do Bids Sing? delivers on this promise. Musically susinct and lyrically devastating, lead singer/ song-writer Gordon Ganno pain& a picture of schizophrenic paranoia and contradiction, stretching from the simple joy of music (“American

you haven’t eaten for a week - it is so satisfying and makes you feel like there is nothing more. The songs are varied and are taken fr0m the group’s seven releases. The strength of the material has always been tfre - from the duo’s writing and performance to their influence in the production and record industry.

Music”) to high school locker-r0om fears (‘wore Money Tonight”]. But more importantly, Ganno mines the area betweenand thus never remains stuckinarut. In fkt, Ganno assumes 60 many personalities on this disk that it is impossibletogetafixonhim.Half pouticauy correct, half fMaicdly incorrect, his songwriting has always been impossible to pigeon hole. While cm songs like “Girl Trouble” and #Flax&go Baby” Ganno reaches level8 of H&wed Gmun s ‘Black - Girls”), lcf. he v treats a song about jilted lovers with absolute tenderness, “He Lke Me.”

Astoundingly, the band covers Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” And even more astoundingly, they do it straight, refusing to pitch even a single tent in the name of camp. Rearranging and chan@ng a few linm, Ganno resurrects the song and changes its tone completely to one of absolute pain and longing - a wonderful transformation that remlts inperhap8thestronge8t80ng onthedik I can? recommmd this masteriece enougk The Violent EmmeS !a ve lifted tiexnselw off of #he canvass; hq&u.Uy~ unlike the Qlatnp, they won’t snap and A ti.

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After waiting almost five years f0r a new album from Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark the patience of synth-p0p fanatics has been rewarded. Sugur Tax is now on the shelves and may very well be the best effort ever put out by this Liverpool band. Succeeding 1985’s hit filled Crush Lp and 1986’s pacific Age, this release could end up with higher record sales than SOLne of the cream from such talented colleagues as The Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode. OMD formed just over 12 years ago with the combined talents of former school mates Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphries. Since then, the duo have enjoyed varied, yet increasing success, call&g a back-up band of regulars along the way. But on this, OMD’s eighth album, Humphries is not with the band; however, rumours of him officially splitting from the band have not been confirmed. Despite Humphries’ absence, or perhaps as a result of it, Sugar Tax is full of potential singles, many of which are hot dance numbers. And

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by John Hymers Imprint staff There is a disease shared by many people caught in the alternative music trap, as I was in high school. It is the belief that the only good music was what the rest of society would call weird, the belief that if your next door neighbour knew of it, then it was mainstream and thus not worth the time of day. Roots rock is just such a type of music, tainted because of its popularity.

by Cluistopher hprint staff

Waters

It seems that Toronto-based 13 Engines have always had to go to the US to get any kind of exposure. Their first two releases, Before Our Time,

and By-urn Luke Blups, were recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan and were released on Nocturnal Records. ABIurToMeNowistheband’sthird album and their major label debut. The band has been signed onto SBK Records, the home of Vanilla Ice and Wilson Philips (gee I can see a Club SBK tour rolling into the Wist featuring all three of the bands together.. 1 * ’ This aIbums offers the Velvet Underground meets Neil Young sound which the band has perfected over the past years. Gone is the devilmay-care brashness that was the Ikons (the band’s precurso r) and even most of the harshness of the first album is dispeIIed by the well-crafted nature of this album. The album was produced by long-time Neil Young ‘producer David Briggs (with the mistance of John Hanlon). It was under his supervision that Ru,ld Never Sleeps became the classic album it is; unfortunately, he did also produce Zumu (a point which the press release plays up . . . God knows why). This album is no Rz&VeverSleeps; it is not Zuma either. A Blur To Me Now is, however, a fine, fine album.

I am sure that SBK looked at 13 Engines, most likely at one of their excellent live shows, and saw their label’s Tragically Hip. In some ways this estimation is true, as both bands began as alternative rock acts whose only hope for airplay was from college or alternative radio. The Tragically Hip, and now it seems the promotion of 13 Engines, aimed at the likes of the ‘mighty Q’ and received a warm and heavy rotation. In other ways, linking 13 Engines to the Tragically Hip is a travesty. ‘I’he singer, John Chritchley, does not attempt to be a cliche Gimp Morrison during their lives shows,

but rather the band presents themselves as a tightly constructed unit which shares the same stage. Did I mention that 13 Engines puts on an excellent live show? A Blur To Me Now is a thick and heavy offering which sandwiches ro& ‘n’rouers, such as “Big Surprise,” “Throt& Open Wide,” and “Abandoned” between rock I&lads, represented by “Another Toss of the Coin,” “Gathered safely In,” and ‘“You’re Nothing If You’re Not Strong.” In fact, this last song could become 13 Engines Never&~&. , l

Into th& world step Strange Days,’ five dudes with guitars, bass and drums. They have the vitality found in the best tradition of so-called alternative music, but buy into the roots rock of the Allman Brothers, Neil Young, and so on. Vitality literally: they breathe life into every song on this CD-only release, never stopping to take a break, and never Iowering their level of intensity. “The Last Waltz” best typifies their strengths as song writers and musicians: a strong rocker that chronicles a restless spirit’s coming of age on a road trip to CaIi, with the intent on meeting Neil Young. Shanon Lyon’s seemingly cynical delivery illustrates that the band is

capable of looking at their influences with critical eyes, and the short segue into a waltz - treated interestingly with harmonicas - paints a bleak picture of tf2e pilgrim. The last waltz indeed. The CD is very vocal-oriented, and the songs all tell stories one after another. No obIique poetry, no anthemic songs about rock and roll, no poiitically correct whining about table grap or pollution or sexuaI orientation, Just ballads some rockin’ Iike The Last Waltz,” some mellow like”IifeAi.n’tEasy”andso+nbet-

ween like “Johnny.” The production handled at Sound on Sound by Nelson McCrossan, is crisp and clean. His production does not alter the band out of shape at aI their live show is indicative of how fairly laissez faire McCrcMan hartdied the band in the studio. Indeed, the CD was recorded Iive off the floor, but its clarity shows that it was not left urttouched;theproductionvaIuesare hidden in the package, the way good production should be.

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All and all, the major label debut of 13 Engines fulfills what peopIe have come to expect from the band, a wellcrafted, well-conceived, wellexecuted rock ‘II’ roll. record. Hopefully, SBK’s clout will give 13 Engines some much needed, and deserved recognition this side of the border. Are you ready for thereturn of intelligent rock music? WhosaidImprintartsdoesnottaIk about rock ‘n’ roll enough? Next week, look for my review on 12 Gauge C?od&, and our Where Are 7hey Now feature will be on Canada’s own Motorhead Anvil

After mixed reviews over the 1983 aibum Subjet and 198% Twich, this LP is a classic powerhouse. With the potential success that this release is fIi&ing maybe one of its tracks wi.II surpass the 1983 mega-hit “Fantasy” as Aldo Nova’s yardstick of achievement. Platinum record’sah of this album would be good, because Canada needs some new, colossal rock bands; it’s been over 15 years since Rush and Saga entered the industry. During his five-year period of silence, Aldo Nova kept busy with song writing doing radio jir@es and commercials, and finally, guitar

much

by Rich Nichol Imprint head banger

People when

sometimes

bands

get frustrated

like Def Leppard

and

Boston wait four or five years between albums, but the end result is usually remark&e. Aldo Nova’s latest, Blood On ?he Bn’cks, is no different.

vamphg

for long time friend Jon Bon

Jovi on last year’s “Blaze of Glory.” The two men teamed up once again to co-produce and write&&On The Bn’cks, initiating Jon Bon Jovi’s label, JAMB0 Records. Jon even sings alI the two-part harmonies. Flower, featuring Beatles classic ‘“Tomorrow Never Knows,” is as eclectic as the contrasting front/back cover photos would suggest The front: candy-coloured purrin’ pop kitten. The back: Manson family

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Strange Days have come along way in their short existence, opening up for the likes of the Skydiggers and Blue Rodeo (Idon’t remind me - the mental sacs am just begillning to hul - ed). Their rabid following will eat up this debut offering, and Life Ain’t Euy ought to win them new fans along the way. It is a most solid effort, that while lacking complete origidity, contains enough talent and sheer gusto to convince almost ---- crux. Lr! any

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creepy-crawler. If, by some arcane magnetism, the songs themselves gravitated to opposing poles we’d have “Tomorrow Never Knows" kd ‘Daisy” leading things off, tith the majority of songs clamoring recesses.

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soni& expressive theme. The title tra&(aIs0thefirstsingIe)isafastpaced yet gloomy look at b Angeles gang fights; “Bang Banflays out the consequences of dating a woman tithahetilikeagun;andsavingthe meatiest cut until last on the album, “Bright I&Ids, Big City” (recommended at full volume) tells teenagers to gii for their dreams while being cautious of the influences of drugs. Particularly good are the ballads “Hey Ronnie (Veronica’s Song)“and “Someday”.

are simplistic, but the of the various ranges of hard rock give this album full marks. And, any narrow-minded fool who thinks that there is no creativity and variety in hard rock should give it a whirl. The lyrics interweaving

With all its dolphin noises, the Beatles cover is easily digestible: Lennon’s lyrics characteristically gentler than Dax’s stuff on ‘The Lving And Their StiIlbom,” ‘Dead Man’s Chill,” or “King Crack” Special kudos to ” 16 Candles” with its percussive proces-

sion, bringing

the album to a close. A

potent, ancient wartime tragedy empowers the tune - a girl waiting

in vain year after year for her lover’s return. Many of the songs speak in themes of freedom versus imprisonment and Dax’s very own voyage across the mainstream surrounding North America has been slow, persistant and individually determined. Far from a sellout, Human Flower is a dignified arrival. While other bands grovel for airplay, Dax’s integrity remains

true.

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appears to be the most unl&ely shared billing since the Bronski Beat toured with Scorpion. Yep that’s right, Public Enemy, Sisters of Mercy, Gang of Four, and Warrior Soul join forces to spice the line at the Vortex. Touring to promote their new album Real&y of my Sunvundings, Thursday, July 18 will find Fishbone funkin’ out at the Concert Hall. The most modern of lovers, Jonathan Richman, wilJ help fritter away an otherwise listless Sunday night (Jdy 21) at the Opera House. If you thought Bobby Wiseman, Blue Rodeo’s epileptic keyboardist had given up on that KSS (Krazy Solo Stuff), look again, lonathan has +* opening act. -

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One year ago, Stephen White was working on computers at UW, playing around local venues as the keyboadist of McFadden’s Fiends, such as the now defunct Glers and the Trashateria, and, as always, he was tinkering around in his darkened bamwnt room on Albert Street. Since that time, McFadden’s Fiends took a break, Steve invested his fall tuition in a sampler and spent long sleepless nights sampling liberally from his record colle&on, and i.ce. became a full blown entity. i.c.e. is deeply infl?enced by music of a forms, shapes, and sizes, literature from cerebus to Camus, and the theories coming out of Silicon Valley be they Chaos Math or FractalVision psychedelic graphics generation. “Strange Attractor,” i.c.e.‘s contribution to this year’s CFNY Modem Music Search (the lead-off track on the CD and cassette), stems from university of California Professor

Ralph Abraham’s “dynamical systems theory” which is better known math.”

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Neubauten are coming, E+urzende Neubaten are coming! When? Tuesday July 23. Where? RPM, of course. 1991’s Capitain Environment, Joe Jackson, saris aI1 cheveux, will be

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that.

As some of the dust settles at the end of a day on campus, financial value and genuinely quality entertainment can be derived at the Theatre of the Arts where Jennifer Monteith’s UW directorial debut My Darling Judith continues this evening and tomorrow beginning at eight. Every good Hip Haps should end with a smug. cute little signature send

baby mixture of mathand mysticism which is totally concerned with mindexpansion. Mind-expansion is also an aim of the sample and hold style of ice. Working on many different levels, as represented by its diverse first rekase demo no. I, ice. congeals dissimilar forms and varied influences in order to create an expressive singular mu& cat offering.

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Search winners (including another &al band DigiT), ice. has recorded with indie Toronto band Big Daddy Carbon, and Steve has also continued his ties witi McFadden’s

Fiends who will be playing around locally this summer. i.c.e. is popping up everywhere this summer: “Strange Attractor” is all over the airwaves, i.c.e. turned up on the open mike after the recent Consolidated show doing his first freestyle rap song, and the independent demo is available in every record store that you enter. Slow down and hear ic.e.% version of the sounds of summer.

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Brett Maraldo dimmed the lights in his room, adjusted the vertical hold on his VCR, then cued his stereo and began hii presentation. “I’m a little nervous about this latest piece I wrote,” confessed the short, intense and usually selfconfident

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