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Icnpiei is. the official student newspeper at the University of Waterloo. It is an editorially independent newspaper published by Imprint Publications, Waterloo, a corporation without share capital. imp&t is a member of the Ontario Communily Newspaper Association (OCNA). Imprint publishes every Friday during the Fall and Winter terms and every second- Friday during the Spring term. Mailshould~~d~~dto~~Campus Cmtre, Room 140, University of Watarloo, Waterloo, Ontario. N2L SGI. E-mail shoufd be addressed to imprint at watservl.Waterloo+du.

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Contribution List Sar$y Atwal, Kenton Augerman, Karen Brookes, Mjchael Bryson, Scott Chandler, Phillip Chee, Erika Cook, Paul Done, Dave Fisher, Sue Forrest, Steve Gamble, Jeffrey Millar, Robin Modler, Angela Mulholland, Joseph Novak, Fidel Reijerse, Chris Riedel, Frank Seglenieks, Dave Thomson, UW News Bureau, Fiona van der Lugt, Wim van der Lugt, Walter Wagnl$thner, a n d D e r e k “lance Manion� Weiler.

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Canada Day Capers from UW News Bureau and Imprint staff

That Mother Nature sure has a temper!

Last week’s tornado-like storm cut a swath of tom-up trees across Waterloo and the campus, making headaches for local authorities a@ UW’s plant operations.

Photo by CD Coulas

Memo insults Turnkeys

by Sue &rest rmprht staff The Campus Centre Turnkey Desk has been rife with strife of late. Conflict surfaced early in May over parttime staff not being paid for. mandatory Staff meetings, in apparent contravention of the Employment Standards Act. Tension escalated when turnkeys also began to question the tegality of being required to perform volunteer work as a condition for rehiring, and eligibility for back pay.

In response, ass&ate provost for studeni affaii Peter Hopkins initiated t w o c o m m i t t e e s , t h e Management Process Committee to investigate concerns specific to the Turnkey Desk, and the Employment Standards Committee for university’ wide applications

The University of Waterloo and the Federation of Students have a full day of family fun planned for Canada Day, on the north Campus of the university (off Columbia Street West.) Everyone is invited to join us for a day of free entertainment, and all are encouraged to dress in red and white to add to the celebrations.

An “Ultimate Frisbee Demonstration”from 2-4 pm, on the north campus will start the day off. This will be followed by the parade at 3 pm, leaving from Witfrid Laurier University and proceeding to IJW, via Albert and Columbia Streets. Children 12 Waiteday of ‘&is week saw the and under are welcome to dress up accompanying memo dictating for the costume contest and march changes in work environment firwith the parade. Costume contest c&ted to all 24 part-time students prizes will be awarded at the opening employed as turnkeys. Acting camceremonies, which start at 4. A giant p u s centre m a n a g e r Johnathon birthdav cake will also be served to-Sweet, also directed copies to Hopcelebraie Canada’s 125th birthday. kins, Katrina Maugham of the perThe finale of the dav will be a can- sonnel department, and campus dlelight ceremonv, ai l&O0 pm in centre manager Ann Simpson. honor of Canada’; 125th birthday,in Jen Okum, a turnkey, expressed which the community wlil be asked concern over the changes being to light a candle as a symbol of hope immediate. and unity. This will be followed by a spectacular fireworks display.

In between, there are all sorts of events to choose from. For the voungsters, there are children’s TO: All T"rnkey Staff iames and mini-Olympics. There is CC: Peter Hopkins slso a puppet show by Kids on the Katrina waugham Ann Simpson Block, a group that promotes awareness of disabilities. *l%Xll: Jonatbon Sweet *continued to page @ oat-a: Jun.3 24, 1952

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Due to budgetary and apply:

ask UW students if they want to stay in the CFS. “We’re nat jumpink into this,“savs Every time a student sits in a denMartin about the referendum. “We’re tist’s chair they can thank the Canaconcerned with how this campus can dian Federation of Students for the benefit our students.” student dental program. But Univer“The CFS claims to be for the sity . of Waterloo ^ .*. Federation . ~.of ‘ quality of student I& But how are btudents courbxilors are saymg mars they going to know what’s important about all they can thank the CFS for. to the students unless they spend Except for a fee increase, that is. time with them?“ After a week-long CFS conference, Sue Crack, vicepresident, u&ercouncillors left frustrated about the sity affairs, says the CFS isn’t listening the lack of focus on educational to the views of all members. issues. That’s why the students’coun“When we tried to put forth our dl, at a Jun? 7 meeting, voted ideas, we felt shut down,” says Crack, unanimously to hold a referendum who also attended the conference. on UW’s membership in the CFS. “At the CFS conference, someone ‘“The CFS should be spending time said that if We only focus on and money on issues such as funding educational issues it could be budget, and improving the quality of dangerous. But how can that be teaching,” says Dave Martin, presi- dangerous?“ dent of the Federation of Students.

‘You would hope a student move‘That didn’t happen at the CFS con- ment like the CFS would be able to ference.” deal with student issues, such as The Federation of Students must funding. But it’s not as high on the list give six m&IthS nOtiCe to the CFS as you woukj hupef before holding a referendum that will Crack says the CFS is losing focus

on students’ needs because they are spending too much time and money trying to attract new member universities.

Martin agrees that the CFS’ failings are due to its financial difficulties.

‘The CFS is not allocating financial resources efficiently, to the point where they’re crippling themselves,” says Martin, adding that a fee increase from $2 per term, per student to $3, approved at the conference, won’t solve CFS’ financial problems.

Last winter, UW students voted to pull out of the Ontario Federation of Students.

Fed vice-president, operationsand finance Brent McDermott is allatating the $1.50 per student, per term fee to the students’ councilspclfil projects fund, totalling $37,000. If UW students give a nod of approval to pull out of CFS, then the $3 f-ee will also be allocated to other proiech. . -if by the end of%e six-month period we feel that students’ needs are being met, then we will reconsider the referendum,” says Martin.

Staff.

Turnkeys aIso questioned why management feels it is important to be able to fire people for something like eating popcorn while on shit%.

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the following Procedures

1. The Turnkey Desk telephones vi11 only be used for desk business. and the office Phones will no longer be used for long distance calls except in the case of unergencies;

FEDS ponder CFS withdraw1 byKarenBrookes Impfint staff

security

“I was under the impression that changes would be made through the committees set up,” she said.

A member of the Management ProcessCommittee affirmed that the .:hanges noted in the memo had not ‘%en mentioned at their meetings. At the June 10, meeting Simpson stated “in a management position YOU are crazy if you don’t take into consideation advice from the people doing the job.”

Ok~~~herd~~~~em~o as “rea’aionary. . . designed to put us lowly empIoyee9 in place.” Another turnkey, Helen Victoms, commented that “it shows an obvious lack of respect for .the people he’s working with and those that it effects.”

Severat &,rnkeys expressed concern over not being allowed in their work space off shll It Is reguiar practice for off-duty tumkeys to help out when the desk is busy, and to spend time reading the-daily log book. The log is their primary means of communication; turnkeys are expected to read the entire log between shifts.

Given that staff meetings are now voluntary and staff may read the log only on shift, some staff question how they will be able to effectively and efficiently communicate with other

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at the prLroga$ive of lIa~mgenent and only at those meetings will oTmpuf Contra business h% discuss& end decisions made.

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actions, up to and including dismissal.

Sweet was not @terested in qommentin~on the memo ‘at thii time.” 2 jr

QUOTE bF THE WEEK There sure are a lot of them.”

I - former VPOF Steve Millard . ..when asked to comment on new beach volleyball courts

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Passing the S,IN test f r o m UW N e w s B u r e a u A high school student from Lakefield, Ont., is the winner of this year’s Sir Isaac Newton physics contest conducted by the University of Waterloo.

Adrian Dunn of Lakefield College School placed first in the higb.Iy competitive 24th annual contest. In second place was Jared A n d e r s o n o f M o u n t D o u g l a s S e c o n d a r y School i n V i c t o r i a , B C , while Nathawad Lalitk u m a r o f P o r t M o o d y S e n i o r Seconday School in Port Moody, BC finished third.

Almost 5,000 students from more

than 550 schools matched wits in the two-hour exam, which is described by organizers as being both demanding and humorous. It was held May 7 and official results were released earlier thii week.

Prof. Phil Eastman, a UW physicist who runs the event, says that while most of the participants were fro?

O n t a r i o , students from ZWDSS Canada and other cou#rim also competed.

In reviewing this year’s contest, Eastman says the test results are typical. “Only one s&dent correctly s o l v e d alI 1 4 p r o b l e m s , a n d h e j u s tified his results in an excellent fashion.” _

Success in the exam, he adds, requires% good grasp of hih school ph$ics a&i a >o&ise, gnalytical mind.” To lighten things, the questions featured various comic-strip characters, athletes, pviriticians and scientisk Although the &test is computerscored, the top 250 papers -were hand-marked in order to select win‘ners of scholarships and 140 book

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A b o u t 10 of the top students will accept Sii Isaac Newton scholar&$ to &dy honors ‘physics at the University of Waterloo, in either the regular o r c o - o p e r a t i v e ( w o r k - s t u d y ) education program.

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The Science Student Soci&y is organizing a beachball vollevball tournament for teens, that wiil ~0 from 5-7 pm. A celebrity slvpitch game between. the Waterloo F i r e f i g h t e r s a n d the Waterloo Regional Police, starting at 5:OO will provide entertainment for all ages. live entertainment includes the Waterloo Concert Band at 5, an a cappella v o c a l g r o u p c a l l e d I n t e g r a t i o n

by Parts at 6:15, and at 7~30, C H Y M and Iabatt’s present Eddie and the Ed&% Ongoing events include an environmental fair set up by WPlRG-Waterloo Public Interest Research Group, a crafts fair and a merchank village. Also, there will be a kite flyingcontest, a Jumping Castle courtesy of Bingeman’s, as well as tours of three of the museums on campus.

All of the4 events are free of charge to all ages. There will also be food booths selling hot dogs, hamburges and refreshments at reasonable prices, to expected crowds of over 50,000.

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It was about January, 1990 when our economy started its descent to ik current position. Because cooperative education students are more attuned to society’s economic realities, they felt the pinch just lie the average citizen.

When everyday people started 10s ing their jobs, co-op students could sympathize because they too were finding it harder to get work, not to mention satis&ng work And, despite assurances from various levels of government, thiigs did not get much better six, or even twelve, months later.

Luckilv for some students, UW’s CO-op a d m i n i s t r a t i o n d i d n o t s i t o n their hands and watch as placement rates plunged; they recognized that they had the ability to help floundering students. ’ According to Jim Wilson in cdoperation education and career services, his office invest&a&i w h e t h e r t h e r e w e r e oppo@unities to fill on-campus jobs with co-op students. Such situations did exist, and these p o s i t i o n s w e r e f i l l e d . J u s t recently, Needles Ha.11 hired four students who have numerous responsibilities: telemarketing, which consists of contacting 4,000 possible employcrj; assisting employers when they come to campus to conduct interviews; staffing i n f o r m a t i o n

booths f o r t h e n u m e r o u s c o n f e r e n c e s held at UW; and contacting alumni in order to establish new lii to new employers.

Wilson admits that the idea for hiring students for on-campus positions was not one that developed simply because the administration realized that co-op students represented a monvatcd (and not 4Wy excessively paid) labour pool. It was a reaction to bad economic times w h i c h w e r e h u r t i n g the w h o l e svs* tern. Now, both benefit.

Regardless of why these positions became available, there is a good chance many will not evaporate once t h e economy ECOWTS. MOW departmentsare becominginterested i n hiring students, and the feedback from those who @ready have has b e e n t r e m e n d o u s . Deanvf E n g i n e e r ing Dean Burns h&-en particularlv active and positive. Hopefully h& approach will spread to other departments.

While some on-campus jobs are n o t very g l a m o r o u s 6r lucrative (fixing roofing, for example), these entry level jobs represent a chance f& students to work with the administration Instead‘gf wondering why a certain policy was developed, they will b e f u l l y informed b e c a u s e t h e y w e r e a part of the process -or at least close enough to understand it.

P e r h a p s , eventuallv, students will not only be handing in rmumes, thev w i l l b e s e n d i n g o u t t h e packages & well.

FREE- ‘--- u Bike lockers on campus

Bring a roll of film in for deve!oplnc: ANY WDNESDAY and receive a 2nd SET FREE! C.41. &es: 110 & 126 & 35 mm full frame (excluding stretch 353

70 Otonabee D r . , K i t c h e n e r - 893-1280 6 5 U n i v e r s i t y A v e . , E., K i t c h e n e r - 885-3050 319 Victoria St. N., Kitcbener - 744-2811

‘by Fiiel Reijede Engineering Society Initiated by a proposal from students, director of security AI MacKenzie has commissioned the design and building of an individual-use bike locker for ihe LJnive&ty of W a t e r l o o ’ s c a m p u s . The locker was designed by Jii Baleshta of the mechanical engineering department and was built in engineerink machine shop which is subsidized by the dean of engineering.

The prototype lodker is on d&play in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall to judge faculty, staff, and student response to the project If the response indicates an acute interest, further lockers may be commissioned. A pilot project consisting of 20 lockers could be placedin the current bicycle area between Engineering 2 and Physics. If this continues to go well, campus-wide coverage will be considered. .The lockers will be rented to individuals on a per-term basis.

The lockers are an attempt at curbing the extremely high rate of biie thefts ihat occur on campus. Last year, 151 bikes were stolen. For those staff and students who are concerned with the s e c u r i t y o f t h e i r v e h i c l e s , t h e s e lockem will orovide a safe and sheltered year-r&md storage.

The prototype locker will be on display for two to three weeks and w i l l b e a c c o m p a n i e d b y a questionnaire,and suggestion box:Everyone who is interested in seeing these lotkers on campus should indicate their support by filling out one of these sheets.

The lockers are designed to fit s n u g l y t o g e t h e r i n o p p o s i n g directions. They will be anchored on parkFag&curbs which are 220 pounds ?l;e lockers may be built in sechQn$ to reduce the cost of some of the material. This would allow three IOC-

kers to sit on a.pair of curbs. The combiied weight of the total unit will be approximately 840 pounds including bicycles. Thii will make it virtually Impossible to remove, and thus tbeftproof in all but the most extreme cases.

The door is in two interlocking sections .that. are. fastened with a special -. round padlock Thus 15 coverer so mar access cannot be gained to the lpck with a pry bar.

The inside of the locker contains a loop of aircraft cable to aUow the bike to be locked to the locker. It also contains two hooks to place helmets and gear.

The floor will be solid aluminum

with a six-ix& piece of grating at the back to allow for the flushing of dit .each term- The g r a t i n g w i l l b e f i n e enough to exclude the entry of rodents.

The design incorporates gutters under part of the door for both strength Bnd rain diversion. The locker itself is, built aluminum . from . . . to IedUCe

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The lockers will cost between $6.50 and $700 each.’ Their expected lifetime is at least 7-10 years. The price of rental will be judged on feasibility and student feedback.

They are expected to pay for tbemselves over their lifetime.

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-1 Negotiating the halls ‘of Needles ’

by T&sa S&nurr Wagnleithner IInpl$nt staff

from UW News Bureau

Running Needles Hall takes a Iot of effort. Sometimes,aspeople not completelyfamiliar with the actual behind the scenes work, co-operative education students overlook how much work it takes to proress thousands of job-seeking students each term.

However, students do discuss any reaLor supposed errors the Needles folk make when dealing with our embryonic chreers. Instead of talking about how things should be run, students can pLay an active role in qaking sure theu packages are put together correctly. if people can remember way back to first year, they may recall that someone stood up at a co-op orientation se&ion and told them they should make sure their student packages contain the correct resumes.

‘And, if they were too hungover to attend a se&on like this one, they can reread the always stimulating ~0-0~ manual. And, if they were/are too lazy to do that (and are still uninformed), they cari ask their job coordinator about how one goes about checking his or her own package.

The problem with all this is that it means the student has to take ati active role to make sure people in Needles Hall are pulling fites and double checking them properly.

While it may be true that human error can not be totally eli@nated, students taking five or six classes have another task added to the load.

It may be an annoying chore, but jt does represent an opportunity for students to avoid relying on someone else, Thev can influence theii own fate. Thisis especially valuable when one considers the computer problems oc&.m%ng in NeedIes. Originallv, the new computer system, which- is still not bug-l%ee. was supposed to take “e couple years“ to set up. It was an apparently unrealistic estimate.

Because the system is not yet working properly. there hai bet*n some job

Sawatsky accepts second term at CGC Ur. Rod Saw&sky has accepted a second term as president of Conrad Grebel College. The appointment was made following a thorough consultative process@ members of a Presidential Review Committee with the various con&tuency groups of the College, including faculty, administration, staff, students.and individuals within the Mennonite Conference of Fastern Canada, bf which Conrad Grcbel is a part.

Dr. Sawatsky is the f&&h president in the ColIege’s 29-year history, and his contribution in shaping the vision and program of the College has been considerable. He brings many strengths to his,rolc as I’rcuidcnt, not least among them a’ strongly articulated vision for Conrad Grebel as a small Christian liberal arts college on the campus of a large, public,university. He also has a passionate desire to keep the College strongly linked to the Mennonite church.

Dr. Saw&sky has a 19-vear history with Conrad Grebkl College as Associate Professor of Ruinous Studies, Academic Dean and President. He has a broad interdisciplinarv academic background and significani knowledge of the Canadian university system. His training, experience and leadership abilities will serve the College community well.

“Rdd has capably served the College in his role as President during the last three fears,” says Rev. David Martin, Chair of the Board, “and WE anticipate working with him during a second term.“.

New dean for &+mnental studies A geographer at the University of Nebraska, Prof. Jeanne Kay, has beer appointed dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies.

Currently chaiig the geography department at U of Nebraska’s Lincolr campus, Kay will serve a five-year term at UW, beginning July 1. He appointment has been approved by the UW board of governors, follow&I an exhaustive’search conducted bv an internal nominating committee.

Before joining’u of Nebraska. in 1989, Kay was a member of thl geography department for 13 years at the University of Utah. After earning aBAinf970atMountHoIyokeCoIlegeinMas~sachusetts,shereceived botl a MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.

Her research centres on historical geography, delving into, humal interactions with wilderness landscapes and natural resources.. She ha written on such diverse topics as the fur trade, flooding in Utah, concepts o nature in the Hebrew Bible and Wixonsin Indian hunting patterns.

UW’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, founded in 1949, offers pro grams in architechlre, environment and resoutie studies, geography, ant urban and regiona plannipg UW graduate student wins toxic waste research grant Pollution’s impact on health in the Great Lake regions will be studied b: University of Waterloo graduqte student Pad Sibley, winner of a $17,001 US fellowship.

Siblev was among five graduate students in North America to receive thl fellow&p, sponsored by the International Association for Griat Lake Research through a grant from the C. S. Mott Foundation of Flint, Mich.

The annual fellowships cover student expenses during a year of graduat thesis research, focusing on the effects of toxic contaminants on human and environmental he&h in the Great Lakes.

A total of $66,000 US in fellowship support was announced at the association’s recent conference held at UW. Only one ether Canadiar received a fellowship; Brenda Koenig of York Universiy m Toronto.

SibIcy, a PhD candibte, will conduct research described as “environ. mental health assessment of sediment organochlorines from bleachedkrafi mill effluent.” He is a graduate student in UW’s biology department.

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restructuring so that more time can

be dedicated to getting it running.

Thii ‘conversion has caused some problems.

For example, coordinators artinot being supplied with enough information about each student they deal with. And, even though teaching option students are “theoretically” limited to applying to teaching positions, there may have been some this term who were able to apply to, , non-teaching jobs as well.

This would not seem particularly important if not for the fact that they complete the process faster than nonteaching students, and thus have a possible advantage because they have first chance at.interviews.

As a result, it would be wise for smdents to make sure their packages go out, just as it is important for them to make sure they make to their interviews. t Approximately l&o years-ago, our economy was strong. The co-op systern enjbyed the benefit of sending people into a job market hunm for new people. Many students had numerous offbzz to choose from. But, they also had other interviews to go to. Often, they chose not to make it to

those they thought would not be worth their while.

The administratidn decided that such actions should result in strict enforcement of an important co-op rule: that is, if you missed an interview without having a legitimate reason, you forfeited the opportunity to rank a first choice. Naturally, P”” ple can not afford to risk such punishment in such difficult economic times. Again, s&dents can.avoid this by ensur+ng they attend all their scheduled interviews.

It might be easier to be motivated if they remember that employers also get reminded of proper procedure when they do not follow it - even though it is true that the adminishation has little enforcement power here.

In short, students shoutd, and are retommended to, check their packages, makes sure they have applied to appropriate jobs,attend their interviews, and ask questions. Ma,ny may loathe walking into Needles Hall, but ifihey can juststomach the feeling for awhile, they may just be ensuring that the system works for them properly.

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The University of Waterloo’s “greening of the campus” project, fomiall! called WatGreen, has been hailed by the Kitchen--Waterloo Chamber o f Commerce’s first annual cnvironmehtal achievement awards.

UW received the innovation award, which recognizes work that rep resents a new or unique approach in protecting or rehabilitating thl environment.

WatGreen, laun&ed in 1990, aims to make the campus a more environ menntally friendly place by drawing on the research efforts of students ant1 faculty in co-op&ation with staff at the university.

The chief goal, simply, is to transform UW into a showcase of sus tainability, a ecosystem in harmony with the environment Also, the projec t will lead to cuts in university operating expenses.

Patti Cook, UW’s’waste management coordinator, credits winning’th e award to a spirit of co-operation among faculty, staff and students.

UW ergonomics experts explore Workplace issues, performance

Risks of back injuries and repetitive Strain ailments in the wo&lace ar among the &ear.ch interests of experts at the Faculty of Applied H&It Sciences at UW. Joining outside ~&ientists, UW faculty organized a recent workshop titfec 1, Ergonomics ‘92: Attacking Workplace Issues, which was attended b Y individuals responsible for safety, work area design or injured work6 !r rehabiitation.

Topics covered included strategies to evaluate and solve problems rela ting to ergonomics - how to improve workplace &ciency and enhahc e workers well-being.

Also explored: exertion in the ‘workplace, worker performance an d, learning, practical guidelines for lifting of objects, and physical dam& Is and back injury risks.

Among featured UW experts at the workshop were Prof. Stuart McGil who advises cm Iifting awkward and heavy loads; Prof. Robert Normal who measures the risk of injury to employees performing lii tasks; an Profs Richard Wells and Don Ranney, who study repetitive strain injuries i work.

by Erika Cook Imprint staff Computers are an underused resource in the Faculty of Arts, according to the Arts Computing Offtce. In the 1992 winter term, only six percent of artsstudents held computer accounts. In order to increaase, awareness about the facilities. available, the Computing Office is sending information to first-year students in their pre-registration packages and to the,Federation of Students.

Personal computers, mainframe terminals and laser printers are located in Hagey Hall and the PAS, and can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A wide variety of software’is available for use, includil;‘g .wordprocessing, spreadsheets, graphics, database, and statistical packages. For those unfamilii with the system, introductory Seminars are scheduled each month, and one-onone consulting is available on a dropin basis.

Arts students can buy computing account cards and laser print cards from the Cashier’s Office in Needles Hall and take them to the Arts Computing Office (PAS 2036) to a&ate their accounts.

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The opinions expressed in columns, comment pieces, and other articles on ’ Imp&t. these pages are strictly those of the authors, not Only articles clearly labelled “editorial” and un$gned represent.the majority opinion of the Imprint editorial board.

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HOLLOWING 7 I=

Fireside Chat

by Peter B~wn

As the Federation of Students students council considers what to with its “OFS divi den@’ ( t h e a p p r o x i m a t e l y $ 3 7 , 0 0 0 i n f e e : which the Federation will not have to transfer tc the coffers of the Ontario Federation o Students this fall), perhaps they should con s i d e r t a k i n g s u g g e s t i o n s f r o m s t u d e n t s ant other interested parties. Such as me, fo instance.

If they ask, me, I already kriow what I’l say bring back the academic researcher.

T h e p o s i t i o n o f a c a d e m i c r e s e a r c h e r hat b e e n vacant since the depaflure of Leannc O ’ D o n n e l l t o t h e ombudspereon’s office ir May, 1991. Althat time, the Federation was ir dire financial straits and decided to leave the position unfilled to save money, Fed genera manager Fred Kelly told Imprint.

According to O’Donnell, the job broke d o w n i n t o t h r e e m a j o r c a t e g o r i e s . F i r s t , tht: academic researcher was the persor primarily responsible for the administration o elections and referenda, making sure that the student chief returning officers of such votes and the Fed eiecutive knew the appropriatf b y l a w s a n d polici+ Second, she conducted’ research at the direction of the executive and other Fed staf about areas of interest to students. Fol instance, when a past executive wanted tc l o b b y t h e m u n i c i p a l g o v e r n m e n t s t o ailov, postsecondary students to qualify for a lowei p r i c e f o r b u s p a s s e s , s h e p r e p a r e d a repor that showed the economic benefits Ihal students bring tothe Kitchener,-Wat~loo~mmunity.

T h i r d , s h e a c t e d as &V’s l i a i s o n w i t h the C)ntario and Canadian Federations oi Students, the link of continuity between staff at those student organizations and our own y e a r l y e x e c u t i v e s . S h e a l s o k e p t a b r e a s t oi current issues affecting students so that tl%z sxecutive c o u l d b e k e p t m o r e i n f o r m e d o f 1 :he.se issues.

For the past year, the first partof this job has 3een a s s u m e d byo~e~full-timestaff, a n d t h e ‘ed taken on by the executive themselves.

Admitidly, n o t all o f t h e s e f u n c t i o n s a r e iecessary, especially in recessionary times Nhen your student organiztition has a sixigure deficit as they did last year. The Feds nus’r give first priority to services that have a ~irect~e~tonimproving~equali~of~dent ife, and an academic researcher is perceived ,y many as a perk of sorts.

I would agree with that argument if such a josition were to sap funds froin the %deration’s o p e r a t i n g b u d g e t , b u t w i t h t h e )FSdividend,~atwon’t haveto happen. With 637,000 annually (and additional funds if UW ;tudents vote to leave CFS as well later this /ear), the Feds should be able to finance this ;tefl position.

Not only can the Federation afford it, but also r e h i r i n g a n a c a d e m i c r e s e a r c h e r w o u l d Je a n a p p r o p r i a t e a l t e r n a t i v e u s e f o r t h e noney instead of letting it disappear into the operating budget. An academic researcher would be instrumental in duplicating for ourselves the services that be QFS provides its nember instilutions: fesearch on studen! econtinued to page 71

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The depths ofi his brain I often find myself probing the depths of my brain a scant few hours before our press deadline, desperately looking for a subject to write about that interests not only me, but hopefully one that also catches some portion of our readership’s imagination or interest I usually do so at the request of our editor, because it seems no one else within or external to this organization has an opinion they wish to put in print, or are simply too lazy to do so.

This week is different in the first respect.

For wha@ver reason, there is a surprising abundance of raw material at my disposal, and I’m days ahead of our press deadline &w-e. with yyr rough druji,

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Theretore, what follows is a selection of topics you can choose to agree with or bicker about.

Fit, about me. Second, about a Fed. Third, about idiots in high places. Fourth, about Canada Day. Enjoy.

First, why me? That is, why am I constantly fill& this page with my psychobabble?

Because you aren’t. 111 reiterate for the thousandth time now, that. Imprint is volutt&r-based. Imp&t staff are representative of Imprint+ff and not the majority of students because we don’t have an adequate cross-section of students volunr~ti?~g..

A couple weeks ago, for example, I was weaving my way through the Campus Centre obstacle course to have a cigarette, when someone I have never spoken to before said to me: ‘Why are you guys always so negative?”

“Huh?” He says it again, ‘Why are you guys always so negative? Why can’t you print stuff that is bositive?” ’ ‘What are you talking about?“, I inquire, again.

He says again, ‘You always print negative stuff, and you don’t et your facts straight.”

“What.. .“I vause. finding thii conversation rapidly repeah itself. I&e a suggestion.

‘Well, you can write aletter to the editor; Pete runs almost all the ones we get, especially In the summer. Or you could go down there and

talk to whoever wrote the piece you disagree with.”

“Ahhh 1. . what good is it gonna do?” he asks. (Waterloo is not a hotbed of activism.)

I then asked him for an example of what was irking him, and he stabbed a finger at a news piece written by Walter Wagnleitbner.

Surprised at the irony of it, I told him that Walter was not 50 yards away, working in the Imprint of&e, and suggested that he couldgo diicuss it with hi.

But alas, he was playing chess at the moment, and mumbled something about going down later but never showed. I rest my case. The defense has a,vn.

The next subject - the US Supreme Court decision that American, agents can go to whatever nation on earth they wish in order tokidnapsomeone suspected ofcommittinga crime on American soiL Is it any wonder that one sees, almost weekly, somewhere, a’ reference to OnveIl’s 10847 (That was my first one ever, by the way.)

Now, if every sovereign nation extended this to its logical conclusion, the world would be a very tigerous place to live in. Vietnam could go after the President that started that war. Canada could kidnap the captains of the Spanish fishing trawlers that fish too close to the whatever-mile limit. Kuwait and Panama could get together to hire bounty hunters to whisk George Bush away to an execution..

I’m sure this decision signiflna whole lot of things to the political pundits, but to put it in a capsule, the world as we know it is falling apart. And the world as we know it consists of elite power shuctures controlling govemments, thereby making the rest of OLU lives increasingly unbearable. So let it fall apart and be replaced with something the other 99 per -cent of the population would like.

Lastly, I have a nagging feeliag that I should say something about Canada Day,since we’re having our one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday within a week July 1 never really meant much of any@ing tome;~itland~onaw~kday~I~da~yoff work or school. My feelings of patriotism are

about strong as those encountered while watching the national anthem play early in the morning’on television, when the stations are shutting down.

I don’t think I’m alone. Most of us have a couple drinks, cheer and clapat the fireworks, and continue drinking. Canada’s 125th birthday is lie yours would be at 125 - boring, Another candle, who cares?

The best description of Canadian nationalism 1 ever encountered was by way of a cartoon. On the right were a dozen Americans with huge flags, busts of Elvis, imitations of the Statue of Liberty, bells, whistles, bright party hats, and the like. On the left was a potbellied Canadian in a lawnchair, asleep with a newspaper in his lap, a beer cooler at his side, bat over his eyes,and a small flag in his limp, lifeless hand.

Limp we are, but we just give the appearance of tiefessness as we go about our daily lives apparentI: too comfortable to be fazed by the idiocy of others. We are roud to be Canadian, even if we can only deP ne It by differentiating ourselves from Americans.

If one of our Olympic &hi&s winsa medal, great; we feel a bit of a serisation called pride, but don’t see it necessary to riot in the streets.

Our easy-going view of life is ultimately defined by and unfailingly demonstrated every July 1 with a giant show .of apathy (relative to’ our southern neighbours (sorry, .I couldnz resist)).

Defining the Canadian identitv is a most futile task, which probably explai;ls why we don’t expend any greai amount of -time attempting to do so. when asked to define Pt, one does a bit of chin-scratching, shrugs, and finds something more productive to do.

Canada is pretty much here to stay, regardless of what you think of the place. T&e it or leave it - no bartering possible.

Dave Thomson

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Loosing their rigidity To fhe editor, I have the foilowing c o m m e n t s c o n c e r n i n g the fir@ two of a three part Imprinf article by Jos h Novak called “Miffed by Mulficuhural WTs- In the ibsf part of his article Novak outlines hi intent: “. . . the concepf of mulflculfuralism, lie fhat of culfure itself, is one devoid of any clear significance . . . (My arguments will demonstrate) that n o r e a l o r cohesive unify exists in a culture foday, b u t only the fabled or imhginary unity of some interest group.”

Novak’s treatment, that of contrasting aspects of culture such as language and dress, mise.es the real essence of culture.

Culture is not so much what people do, but the way people think about their world and their relationship to if.

From this perspecfive, the particular expressions of hrlture, such as language, lose their rigidity without losing fheir significance, a seeming contradiction under N o v a k ’ s treatment For instance, virfu&y every noun in French is male or female; confrast this division with the virtual unisex character of’English.

This male/female thing is only one point of difference. Is it a wonder why French Canadians might want to retain their language?

E l s e w h e r e t h e d i s t i n c t E n g l i s h o f the A f r o American sub-culture or the various English dialects of Britain seems better explained as a reflection of the class systems of fhese societies and their sub-culfure’s different views of the world.

Thus language is important to culture in so far as it jusfiffes and expresses the way that cukure views the world. It is a house built to the specifimfions of ifs inhabitad an artiiacf whose signifkzmce grows wifh ifs usefulness a n d d i m i n i s h e s w h e n the inhabitants move on: the male/female divisions res lendent.in F r e n c h ml&f b e c o n s i d e r e d a 1 B o v e r f r o m an era when such. cksssiicafions were eonsidered important (and may sfill be).

In the context of culture as a way of fhi&ing, a multiculfural society has meaning In fact. a mulficulfural society already exists fhe planet earth Every life form has its own Culture. Every nation has ik own culture and within each are multitudes of culfures: class (rich, middle, poor), politic;il associations (communist, conservafive, liberaL socialist, etc), professions, etc. All these divisions have differenf ways of looking at the world (hence the division) and under sfress will adapt to their world in dlsfinct ways, But if would be incorrect to consider association wifh a culture as an either/or proposition. Just as there are no stereotypical or average Joes, there are no typical C o n s e r v a t i v e o r S o c i a l i s t o r E n g l i s h Canadian. W h i l e fwo things might be red, they might not be the same red Furthermore, where one might see seven colours o f the r a i n b o w , o t h e r s m i g h t see seven thousand.

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Contrived cultural myths To fhe editor, W h o the h e l l i s t h i s N o v a k g u y a n y w a y ?

And whaf kind of a schokr is he?? When he claims to be able to “expose the myfh of mulficulturalism”&h his reasoning he is wrong.

The classical philosophical approach of using rhetoric as a means of obtaining the “truth”is, at best, subjecfive.

Arlsfotle, perhaps the greafest philosopher of all time, used his infekcf to formulate many theories thaf were considered to be “truths” for centuries inckrdmg one that sfafed that since an orange is (let’s say) 20 times as heavy as a grape, fhaf OBVIOUSLY fhe orange must reach the ground 20 times faster than the grape if both are dropped simultaneously.

Likewise, Novak is guilty of contriving an “objecflve” examination of multiculforalism by subjective reasonhtg alone, without reference to the real world. (Doubtless Novak whdci be pleased by this comparison to Ark+ totle, but I consider it to be rather criminal behaviour, especially from a professor and putative scholar.)

The one vital fact that Novak has completely ignored is fhaf CIJITURE EVOLVES!!

Culture is not static, as he repeatedly implies.

In fact, what he is actually talking about are cultural stereotypes - the traditional things fhat we associate with peoples of ofher countries He says, ‘Does a culfural group lose ifs i d e n t i f y w h e n i k m e m b e r s b e g i n t o w e a r dlfferent clofhing?” Obviously not - the culture, and fherefore fhe identity, has undergone a change. There are many examples of how fhe identify of a nation or people has changed drasfimlly. However, the outdafed stereotype that we hold about that cultural group may be mistakenly held for a long time affer fhe change occurs.

Ofcourse,theproblemisthatdferentpeo ple have different definitions of culture. For me, culture is basically everything that a group of people have in common at a particular point in time; this can include any 01 the categories specified by Novak - the greater fhe simiiarify of background, the betfer the definifion of a part&&r culture.

Fireside Chat’ mnt’d. from page & issues, lobbying of the provincial and federal governmentsonfundingi~uesand municipal governments on housing issues, and development of awareness campaigns about everything from acquaintance rape to landlord-tenant relations.

In speaking with me, Kelly questioned the wisdom of assigning these tasks to a full-time position with the requisite overhead, such as benefffs. A more economical solution, he said, would be to hirestudsntson acontract basii to c o n d u c t r e s e a r c h w h e n tf?e n e e d a r o s e . A reasonable compromise, but even Kefly agreed that full-time staff provide the continu ity in leadership necessary when the executive triumvirate change each year.

Contract research on a piecemeal basis will be a great way to help the executive in their decision-making in the short-term. but the ultimate goal of a full-time academic researcher should be examined closely.

And the OFS dividend gives the Federation &he opportunity to do so.

In t h i s w a y , I ain p a r t of several culfures: that of India, fhat of lmmigrank to North America, and that of Canada. Obviously, some aspects of each of these cultures do not describe me at all, but I have strong connections with them in other areas. This multicultural background is an integral part of w h o I a m , w h i c h m e a n s t h a t I h a v e a better understanding of other people who are a part o f t h o s e Nlfures.

This is the meaning of muIfi83muralism to me - people learning the cultural background so basic in the lives of others, so that we can all be respecfed and understood as individuals, and have a friendlier sodefy because of it.

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Stomp.in’ Tom to. animal farm and back again What can you say about a counfry w h o s e most vocal nationalist is Stompin’ Tom Connors? Wrot a n$ief! Equally a relief - though this feeling is often balanced by a pmnoic fear - is the thought that nationalism, the kind of mob energy easily manipulated by astute fascist slogans, in unlikely to happen in Canada.

‘Demoaacy is not a political state but a social, intellectual, and momlacfivity.

Can you just imagine the bureaucratic mandarins and %inkea living in W fry@ fo wrap their minds around thii idea. If may either scare them silly or fly over their heads. Probably a bit of both.

The most urgent issue fhat faces individuals in fhe lafe twentieth cenfury i s government. Cenfra%ed or decentralized Nationsfates or confederal rmmicipalifies.

Provinces or bioregions.

Repreeenfative or face-t&ace democracy. Earliamenk or neighbourhood .cotmcils and assemblies.

Sfafe or society. Sk@CTaff or politics.

I have deliberately opposed certain concepts because I believe their definitions and meanings need to be clearly understood. This isnot a mere semantic quibble - any blurring of these concepts is obscurantist and manipulative. Add to thll a most imporfant dlstinctlon that must constantly be made w h e n e v e r g o v e r n a n c e is discussed lest the whole project sinks into fhe black hole of history. A commifment to mainfain fhe separat i o n o f policy-making from policy execution must always be a guiding principle of any d e m o c r a t i c m o v e m e n t . I f n o f , the g r o u n d o f Animal Fum will be sown again. (Is it not s c a r y t h a t O r w e l l ’ s c l a s s i c dystopian n o v e l ,

presciently describes the modern bureaucratic state, especially in the US.) It is a sad commentary to re&ze that you don’t live in a democratic political culture. A notabie thinker of the French Enhghtenment, the Swiss Jean-Jacques Rousseau, believed that representative democracy was a conf&i&on in terms. Representation denies fhe sovereignfy of the individual and more or less pufs the individual in a condition of slavery. ,~;rrrtrm-Eighry-Four,

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So why this depressing rambling just before the Canada 125 celebrations?

S h o u l d n ’ t I just pack the car and drive away for some fun and sun? Heck, 111 be doing just that, but it is equally important to deal with thii issue.infelligently.

To leave if to a class of professional “politicians” - s u r e l y t h e m o s t sinister degradation of a term that should mean ordinary people, amateurs really, engaged in managing their own affairs L is to deliver your fate Into the hands of bureaucrats

“‘the idea of a nation or country is a metaphor”

Indeed he was righf. It’s nof surmismg he fhoughf fhat way since he came from a region where the cantonal form of dlecf democracy has survived for over 400 years and refains m u c h o f ifs vlfnBfy i n m o d e r n Swifzerland. ~dit~arn~~~~~a~~ti~ ;Ihilosophy in strictly economic terms, That a radical or even revolutionary polltics is fhmkable necessarily means a re-evaluation of the type of political economy fhaf would be balanced tirn t h i s f r a m e w o r k I f cz#alism and fhe market e c o n o m y b e c o m e f a k e n f o r granted as having always been around in ik present form, then the obliteration of society will have been completed. The nob-on that p e o p l e c o u l d acfually amoclate economically on the basis of need, mutual aid, and sharing will “diippear” Ii@ a Soufh African trade unlOnlsf*

and technocrak who believe fhat Canada s h o u l d b e r u n Bke a busmess. T o o b a d t h e i r ideas are already bankrupt.

The idea of a nation or country is a metaphor. At best, it i an idea that unifespeople of drifferenr ba&grounds, be they ethnic, reliious, cultural, or phil~phical, into a mental landscape of social harmony that respects diversify. At worst, it fries to forge a diatinct or unique culture based on some primitive myth lpurlaine, par example:3 by subsuming differences info a totalistic ll&OMliSln.

It is a fragile entity. It gives substance to the phrase “unify in diversity.” It creates fhe psychological orientation of a sense of solidarify and belonging that transcends fhc fradifional ties of commun@ - blood, folk, and kin that are no longer appropriate in a phrraliific

so$efy.

It provides the freedom for local and regronal culture to grow,develop, and mature w h i l e providing a conceptual framework to work toward consensus whenever larger regions and terrifories must share their needs.

Its fragility will allow it to dlsolve, as borders disappear and a vastly regenerated w o r l d e m e r g e s , u n i t e d fn a c o m p l e x e c o l o g y of ethical communities. Or because of this fragility, those who implicitly or explicitly claim fhaf unify can only be achieved through a strong cenfralked government ulfimafely deny the lndivldual t h e o p p o r t u n i t y to parfunpate freely in a community of free indlvkiuals.

And that is unmistakably authorikrian.

Yet, it would be intellectually dishonest of me not to admit fhaf this is a very utopian vision and can only be achieved when mdividuals become radical&d in the form and content of renewed citizenship. Only when the cancer of dvmmafion and fhe aftendant side effects of racism, sexism, and exploitation are eradicated will there even be any hope. That this will require a radical turn away from the current educational philosophy fhat trains workers for the global economy is plain. HopemIly, historical hindsight will cvme to fhe service of a couragevus foresight. Creating a humanisfic, democratic, indeed naturalistic (in the sense of ecological wholeness) society is a long, slow process ifit is not to regress along fascistic or violent lines. ‘fhnks, Sfompin’ Tom, for your inspiration.

Plmipchee

Council grants low vision centre fmmUWNewsEm=au A donation to the UW Centre for Sight Enhancement from the Ontario division of the Canadiaii Cound of the Blind (CCB) will be used to augment the cent&s rehabflltatlon services for people with visual imRalrments.

Bii Delgamo, CCB Ontario president, presented a cheque for $9,100 to Dr. Graham Strong centre dlltor.

The comd is a national consumer organization of blind people that was established to promote the well-beiig of the blind through education, employment and so&l contacts with sighted ‘ a n d blind friends.

At the local IeveL CC3 clubs meet for a variety of social and recraational actlvlties

while at the divIsiona and national levels,it is i n v o l v e d i n progmms related to education, employment and recreation In cooperation with the Canadian National Institute for the BIind, the CC8 co-sponsors “White Cane Week” ln e a r l y F e b r u a r y o f e a c h y e a r .

“We are ecstatiiz t o r e c e i v e this s u p p o r t , ” S t r o n g said While we are excited about the expandedsewlcecapab ElatwlBbeprompted by these new devices, we are especially thrlIled because the support came from consumers of our services. The fact that it is the Canadian Council of the Blind, makes this a n e x c e p t i o n a l l y i m p o r t a n t b e s t o w a l . T O b e recognized by,tbe p e o p l e w h o y o u a s p i r e t o s e r v e Is the ultimate compliment for any rehabilltatlon service:’ The VW centre is a clinical service, research and teaching facilii which is exclusively concerned with the assessment and rahabllitation

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It boasts a comprehensive assortment of tical low vision devices, ranging from sim“s e magniflem to sophisticated p optical systems,asweBasafullrofhightehnology assistive devices such as closed-&cult televls i o n video mag&em and adapted computer s y s t e m s w i t h e n l a r g e d dispIayn a n d / o r v o i c e ““9p”’ontemporary low vision service standards and assessment meth-odologies have been developed at the CSE, as have saveraI innovative products for people with low vision. The CSE provides all high technology s i g h t enhancement assessment and a u t h o r i z a t i o n s e r v i c e s f o r O n t a r i o ’ s Amlltive De&es P r o g r a m (ADP).

S t r o n g w e n t o n t o s a y : ‘ W e a r e ail l i v i n g and working in a very tough and coqetltive economic environment. As a rehabilitation service, we face the same fiscal uncW that constra&n many people ln our society. We must meet ever-increasing d e m a n d s f o r s e r v i c e s with a reIatively fixed led of government support and with d i m i n i s h e d ph&&mpy.”

“For any rehabilitanon selvlce, these ale ~~~~~.We~ti~~a~ where appropriately directed services and t e c h n o l o g y c a n alleviate the functional probiems encountered by many people with I v i s u a l d i s a b i l i t i e s . W e n o longer talk about _ people with disabilRies, we talk about people w i t h speclal neada fmphcit in this new lexicon is the understanding that solutions are possible for most people if wa can only identify and meet their special needs,” he said Someoftheprojectsb&gsupported include: --- Luaaff I%glam -t An important component in the low vision ~sequenceIstheprovl&nofa loaner low vi3lkn-r device to indlvlduals who arecontemplatingtheuseofanewaidThis : provides an immediate opportunity to try using tfie device at home for the speckle tasks that are problematic. It aIso allows the indlviduaI to train with the de&e. The loaner inventory needs updating to Include newer devices and to replace devices that have been ~~~~~o~~e. ?viany of the people who am seen for

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We take fEeat pride ln the quality and contempomneousness of our low vision services, We hope the CCB takes pride in the i&t that tiietr contriition wllI make our excellent services even better and more effective.”

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fmm IJW News Em&u The University of Waterloo has set up a research centre designed to ‘conserve an important part of Canadas environment the country’s vast wetlands.

The Wetlands R e s e a r c h C e n t r e d r a w s o n existing expertise at the university to conduct interdisciplinary work on all aspects of w e t l a n d s , which c o v e r nearfy 1 4 p e r c e n t o f Canada’s landscape. A swamp, for example, is a type of wetland.

Canada is second to the former Soviet U n i o n , a n d possiblv t h e p r e s e n t R u s s i a , f o r the sheer size of its wetlands, according to Prof. Barry Warner, director of the new institute.

“Sclentiflc interest a n d p u b l i c c o n c e r n has greatly increased in recent years largely as a result of the aIarming rate at which wetlands have b e e n d i s a p p e a r i n g i n c e r t a i n r e g i o n s o f the country/ says Warner, a geographer.

There is a reallltlon that weiiands pIay a r&or r o l e i n g r e e n h o u s e g a s e m i s s i o n s a n d global climates.~ A wetland is deflned as an area that is saturated wlth water supporting plant and animal life for much of the year. There are 70 types of wetlands in Canada. :!Wetlands are crucial for a whole variety ofr e a s o n s , ” W a r n e r s a y s . ‘ T h e y are i m p o r t a n t areas for migrating waterfowl to rest and feed.

They can also be converted for agriculture and hortlculture.‘~ Because of the potentially confBcBng uses, Warner says that scientists must have the a n s w e r s t o e n s u r e susialnable management ~~ew~~‘~he~~tofo~cen~e~to work with go+ernment, industry and conaervation g r o u p s w h o all have an interest” Warner adds: We can’t conserve and pre-

serve all the wetbinds. On the other hand, we cannot pillage and destroy all wetlands. So we want to End out what the happy medium #, Is.

He says the LJW centre is the first one ln the country to explore all aspects of the wetIands.

The departments of earth sciences, biology, g e o g r a p h y a n d clvll engineer@, as welI as ~e~hooIofur~nandre~onalpl~~n~are represented iri the centre.

Specifically, the centre will spark a greater nnderstandlng of wetland ecos stems their geology, lncludmg h y &ok&, geochen&try snd e c o l o g y . I t s r e s e a r c h w i l l help conserve the wetlands.

The centre will serve to entrance the training of undergraduate and graduate students in the science of wetlands, particularly t h r o u g h interdlscipllnary and collaborative activities. Field sites f o r r e s e a r c h h a v e b e e n established.

The cantre has launched a ground.breaI&g project called the Wetlands Ecosystems Eorm a n d F u n c t i o n m Ontario, funded

by IN’s InterdiscipBoary grants program.

EssentfaIIy, it is a demonstration site in part of Grand River watershed near the Cambridge.

“Our httent is to study a11 the wetkmds in that area over the long term - everythlngand anything to do with wetlands we will attempt to get basic data,” Warner says. “Our project has s&&d interest from other conservation authorities.” huthermore, the centre .is to develop e x c h a n g e p r o g r a m s w i t h Off-campus including part&rants from ~~~~~, induslly and other interest groups. It works closely with the UW-based W a t e r l o o C e n t r e f o r Groundwater Research and the H e r i t a g e R e s o u r c e C e n t r e .

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Cultures separate us from each other.

Fiilly, an area which sometimes is used to demarcate, cultures is that of entertainment.

Bullfights have always been associated with the Spanish culture, football with the American culture, hockey with the Canadian culture, throwing the hammer with the Scottish culture, and the Sumo wrestling with the Japanese culture.

However, one feels impelled, in at least some of these cases, to ask whether these are always desirableidentifying characteristics of a group. Surely bullfighting has come upon critical times - both anim;il rights groups and those who are repulsed by its machismo think it ought to be stopped. Similarly, questions have beepraised about the pmmotion of aggression by such sports as football and hockey.

Moreover, itis dubious to what extent any such entertainment or sports activity can, be liiited to a single culture. Surfing, which was once restricted to the Pacific Islands, has come to be a Californian and worldwide activity, with high-tech equipment and clothing. Does surfing become less definitory of the Islands’ cdure? Or do Californians thereby become Islanders?

Or, even better, should the originaton ahd native Iskmders now sue the highly developed surfing industry for infringement of copyright - an action not dissimilar from the claims being made by aboriginals for certain territories? Should bungee jumping be encouraged among the tribes th6t practised it as a male initiation rite, despite the fact that o~h~edis~andc~ropmcto~areconcem~ about it effects on the human spine?

No doubt the reader is wondering what prompted me to pen to paper (or better, electronic cont%guration to screen) to argue the stupidity of multiculturaUsm. Although the incidents which have occurred are too numerous to relate - one, for instance, was the Torontonlan Moslem awing, dm’lng the Rushdi affair, that Islamic law should prevail in Canada - two incidents seemed to act as a trigger.

As 1, was travelling up to Tobermory two years ago during the Oka drisis, my car was stopped by a blocka& of Indiaas who were in sympathy with, the Mohawk group in Quebec. The one who stopped my car was a teenager. He did not look like an Indian to me; he was wearing blue jeans, a Labatt’s or Budweiser cap, and a jean’s jacket.

All of this made him appear as & ordinary Canadii teenager or even a teenager anywhere.WhenI toidhimhedidnot looklikean Indian to me, he pointed to a little arm-band w~~r~d‘~o~w~l~entoldhim thathis clothing was hardly Indian and the cap he was wearing simply gave free advertising to a beverage made by a white man’s company that had done his people a lot of damage.

As I reflected on the whole Oka aisis and saw the entire lack of cultural identity displayed in theTV and newspaper photographs and reports, it became clear that there was no true cultural identity there. Machine guns are hardly bows and arrows, army fatigues arc hardly warrior garb, berets are hardly feathers, and ATV’s are hardly horses. While the taking of land for a golf course struck me as clearly unjustified, it also seemed clear to me that it was not under the rubric of being lndiin that this group could protest against such an unjustified invasion.

The second incident which struck me as odd was the sight of a huge stuffed rabbit in the new Chinese centre off Spad& in Toronto. There was hanging in the middle of this building a huge bunny rabbit It was about Eastertimethat I~w~~dI~ou~titrnust be the Chinese Easter bunny.

On second thought, I mused how strange this was. The Chinese do not ieally celebate Easter. What does a Chinese Easter Bunny do? Give out dragon eggs? Now perhaps

one could argue it was just the year of the rabbit (although it was not) and I am totaIly mistaken about this. However, there are other instances in Chinatown that do raise questiom of equality concerning Canadian citizens and business. .

Why should Chinese pa&y shops which are stuffed with so much Western pastry, or Chinese variet)i stores which are crowded with so many Westernized gadgc!, be considered as constitutive of an ethnic tourist area when their wares are easily available in other areas of the city?

Practical Support 06 Multiculturalism: Should the goyemment continue to support multicultiralism despite the above arguments, then there must be every attempt to apply consistent policies across the board.

Fib the government should encourage COnJefing econo*c approaches to enfbrse co rctmg cultural hfestyles. Barter, typ~al of pre-monetary s y s t e m s , should be encouraged despite the loss of tax revenue which it might entail. Bargaining should become more extensive so that indilual consumers could neg&te their property taxes, utility bib, license and vehicle fees.

Sixth, varied legal systems should be encoura ed to co-exist. Members of a multicultura f: group who wish to have a crime tried and punished by their peers under their respective cultural laws should be permitted to do so. Moslems should be aUowed to execute perpeirators of blasphemy. Multiculturalism requires multinomism.~ Seventh, African women whose culture required they undergo clitoreetomies should be required to submit to such surgical inter-

the French must a~oid~sh and chips, roast beeJ and Yorkshire pudding; they shouid also eschew any common sense which is typically British , The followins would be only a small sample of examples of consistent wiicv.

First, ihe government should require that native Indians relinquish every vestige of any so-called European culture. AU motorized vehicles, applllnces, communication devices (telephones, radios, TV’s, etc.), medical aids, printed materials, electricity, asphalt or concrete roadways, etc. If the native culture is to be preserved, it must be kept pristine.

This means that illiteracy must also be promoted, since the written alphabets were introduced by non-natives. Natives should not be permitted to eat foods (eg,, pineapple) or to drink beverages (Scot& or Pepsi) that are alien to their culture. Those tribes which were characterized by warlike behaviour should be encouraged in their belligerency.

Second, the government should require that the Chinese should, in addition to whatever of the above are relevant, rigidly adhere to their own practice of medicine to the exclusion of Western techniques. Synthetic fabrics should not be allowed in their daily attire. Ancient religious practices and beliefs should be legislated. The practice of maiming the feet of Chinese women to give aesthetic pleasure to men should be

vention. cost-free, under the health care systern.

Eighth, the govemmenf should note that its policy must be applied consistently also to the two IaGe so-called “culhrral” groups in this country, the English and the French. Hence, to preserve their respective identities, the government must require that each group insist that its own members retain characteris tics peculiar to them. For instance, the English must recapture the tradition of badly prepared food and refrain from elaborate sauces, snails, and fluff pastries; they must also abandon central heating.

The French must avoid fish and chips, roast beef, and Yorkshire pudding: thev shouldalso eschew any comm& se&;/hi& is typically British.

It should be obvious that such requirements, although entirely h consonance with the spirit of multiculturaliim, are inane. On the other band, the concept of culture (and multiculture) hashad such wide employment, and, despite the fact that it has been made popular by the sociological soothsayen who enjoy such an unjustifiable esteem today, it seems difficult to dismiss it entirely.

Change is the great enemy of cul~ral identity.

Indeed, change is general& the enemy of any identi~ - this a truth already recognized by Herac~itus and other ancient Greek philosopher.

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Third, the government should requiie that citizens of East Indian descent, in addition to whatever of the above are relevant, be encouraged and enforced to continue their attitude of male dominance, especially with regard to the practice of suttee, the selfimmolation of a woman with her dead husband. The government should finance the expense for such a ceremony and any additional cost to the wife in advance of the event.

Fourth, the government should require that any West Indians, in addition to whatever of the above are relevant, contintie to live in the very same style of buildings as they did on the I&nds, -tinter temperatures not. withstanding.

F r o m a multiculturalist perspective, architecture is an integral part of a culture and therefore, the government must remain firm on this point despite the hardship it might bring to the group involved.

In fact, there are &o applications in which the term ‘culture’ can be legitimately used.

The first is its application as an umbrella term to the unchanged behaviour and habits of a recognizable group of people. Thus, in the case of primitive, some ancient, or isolated groups the teim can be applied with regard to a distinctive language, clothing. myths, eating habits, etc.

However, the concept of culture in this sense becomes endangered as soon as change enters the scene. Change is the great enemy of cultural identity. Indeed, change is generally the enemy of any identity - this a truth already recognized by Hera&us and other ancient Greek philosophers.

Moreover, once a “culture” h& changed it becomes futile to search for its true identity by going back to its roots. Many indiiiduals were ensnared by the folly of the “roots movement” years ago and thought they conId recapture their own identity if they looked ~ckto~e~p~t. A~i~e~fle~onon~eve~

image of the movement would reveal thatifa plant is at all alive, its roots will grow and develop as well, until the initial configuration of the roots is no longer identifiable and the plant remains recognizably the same only due to its gpatial location. jr, “culture” CaMOt always look to a geographical location for its: identity and, as an artifact rather than a natural object, cannot enjoy even the weak identity of a biological organism.

The other legitimate sense of culture is that of a structure crPated by man as a physically limited and isolated being in order to preserve, enhance, and realize himself. This sense arises already in the ancient Greek tradition with its roots in Homer and finds expression in one of the myths of Plato.

In his dialogue the Pmtagoms, Plato tells of the creation of man and the myth of Prometheus. an.is aeated, through oversight, naked, unprotected, and unable to survive on his own as did the animals. Prometheus gives man fire and art and man began to fashion culture and thereby survived,Man was then able to express his potentiaIities in culture and that expressionwas the very thing that made him to be man.

However, as the great classicist Werner Jaeger once pointed out, the Greeks realized thatculturedidnot meantheformationof just any pattern of behaviour, but rather that true culture would be the expression of man’s highest excellence. In this sense, there are not many c&ores, all of which are equalIy valuable. Rather, an individual is cultured or not, one is cultivated or uneducated.

The rejection of the concept of multiculturaltsm does not mean that differences between peoples need be ovedooked Clearlytherraredifferences betweenpeaples and these are due to a number of characteristics many of which originated in a distant past, One should never deny one had a past, but neither shoukf one think that the past has a +nglehold on one’s life, Cultures are not living beings, peo le are. Everyone can learn from the past, wI! ether it be one’s own past or the past of others, Thus, for instance, Westerners can benefit from the wisdom of Arabs who clothe themselves protectively from the harmful rays of the sun. In turn, Arabic women can learn to uncover their heads and expose their hair to the gentle breezes of the wind.

I, as a Westerner with a background in the Polii culture can utilize the good things and reject the bad things coming from my ancestors’ traditions, and buiki for myself - to employ an altered image from Martin Buber - a’%ouse 0rthoughts”it-t whichlcan live on the planet. I should not be content with an old shack from the p?t, but 1 can use the bricks and timbers and even some of the furnishings of the past to buiId a new house.

The new house will not be permanent; 1 may find that I have to gut it entirely, if possible. However, my priority will be to improve and develop as best I can foresee. My, improvements will come in part from my own ingenuity and that of others, but it will also come from the integration of practices I see in others. No one should be trapped by the past or believe that the patterns of life are aU welldefined in advance of living life itself.

The only option the people of Canada really have is to kill the sacred cow of multiculturaliim and have a united sing-a-long around its carcass. What matters ultimately is that human beings live and develop with their fellows toward a destiny that is yet to be revealed.

While acknowledging that our pasts may be different, we should hold before ourselves a common future in which not traditions but truth is the rule. Only when people see each other as persons and not as members of some ethnii or cultural group can there be peace and concord on this planet.

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The exciting finals of the BrStsVer 3;on-3 half-co& basketbail tomnam ent concluded last week with both participants and organimrs pleased with the event. Both men and women participated in Campus R~cr&ids first-time offt?kg of this tOUrOc%merit The outstandii organiZati0n ‘Can be attrtbuted to the hard work of tomnament supervisor Denise Dignard, tournament coordinator Laura Thomson, and coordiitor of Campus Recreation Sally Kemp.

Competitors were asked to complete an evaluation on the various aspects of the event.

The players reported the set of clear rules, the well organized schedule, and the format, which provkied a chance for everyone to play, as positive points. Suggestions were made for it to be a future league spread over a nmber of weeks, rather;than just two evenings.

Organizem are looking at dents and criticisms by the layers in order to improve P the future. the tournament or The preliminary round was played on Monday, June 8 in a round-r&m format.

Then, based on these results, the teams were divided into four leagues for the finals, which were played in a single elimination format one week later, Monday, June 15.

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Chem Knowiedge 21-19 C Dlvlsion: The Unit beat Ail1 21-16 D Division: Kin Ball Ma&me downed Purple Haze 21-18 However, win or lose, Campus Rei would like to thank everyone who came out and participated in makii it such a successful first time event +wxyMonkees: Iavid Rourke tire Scbmoll ?-au1 MeIshenke rony Fraledj

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Waterloo Park, Arma June 20,21,1992

Straight off their Thursday~night “T-Shii On The Head” gig at Pop the Gator on June IS, rising local entertainers The Rhinos opened last weekend’s Sounds of Summer concert in Waterloo park with a rousing, bouncing set that included a song that’s usually a.crowd favourite “Praying for Rain.”

“We’re not really pray& okay?” a smiling, beleaguered Dan Michel, The Rhino’s bassist, addressed the heavens. “It’s j&a song.” ’ The weekend music festival, which has enjoyed a growing reputation as the place to see new and upandcoming bands, was plagued w i t h weather problems. On Saturday, the music@ played to a frigid though apprenatrve audience, and on Sunday the show was moved indoon to the Waterloo Arena, a compromise that kept everyone dry despite sacrificing sound quality.

Still, it could have been worse (there could have been a tornado, for example). After a few raindrops early in the afternoon on Saturday, the heaven’s seemed to I&en. The rain stayed away, and the bands played on.

Moxy Pruvous, four guys from .Toronto and a snare drum (Mike Ford, Murray Foster, Jean Ghcsnehi, and David Matheson), followed The Rhinos’energeticbpenng~t~~an equally crowd pleasing addition of their own. With songs like “My Baby Lmes a Bunch of Authors” and the Dr. Seuss classic, “Green Egg and Ham,” the band won a plethora of new followers and lived up the expectations of old ones.

Amanda Marshall also built on her

Sara Craig. no hippie lowohild. growing following in the region with a loud, boisterous set. Highlights included covers of John Prine’s “Angel of Montgomery” and Jimi Hendrix’s Tastles Made of Sand.”

Marshall sent the Hendrix cover out to ail the wanna-be hippie kids in the audience. ‘I feel like Yrn. at WoodstocV she said.

Thomas Trio and the Red Albino, Newfoundland’s favourite s o n s , ~~da~~~~ntrnern~~~~e crowd to their feet And pulled a few others onto the stage, along with the members of Moxy Pruvous, The band had perhaps the best sound of the afternoon and the most iaissez faire attitude. Their set provided more than ample reasons to take in this band on a return visit

Lava Hay would ha&fit nicely into a warm, sunny summer. afternoon, with the haze drifting lazily over the bandshell and the crowd drifting ~$owly off to sleep. Unfortunately, the afternoon was freezing and the delicate harmonies of two female voices were unable to save them from a mediocre review they were Okay.

More difficult to excuse, however, were the afternoon’s headliners, The Grapes of Wrath, who took an hour to set up. It was an hour spent, according to one fan visiting from Northern Ireland, “fucking up the sound system.” But that didn’t seem to bother the Love Children who’d gathered to bask in the glory of their selfproclaimed gods of all that’s warm and fuzzy. Lie, wow.

Sunday afternoon began with Positively Stompin’ playing, you g u e s s e d i t , p o s i t i v e l y stompin’ C & W to a crowd of around 50. The best c o m p l i m e n t t o tlic afternoon’s openers came from Bob Wiseman, who followed the band. Wiseman said he knew the band from years back when they were”PositivelyTiptoeid.“ Wiseman’s set consisted of five songs on’ acoustic guitar and was tragically short. The mad-cap, ex-Blue Rodeo member played some of the songs he played at hi recent

Moxy Fruvousz *Martian ham! Pork from space!”

Bombshelter appearance, incUing the song he recorded as a message for the Doug Christie’s answering machine (the lawyer of Nazi-cheese for brains James Keegstm ani3 Ernst Zundel).“Help me rewrite all of history’s mistakes,” Wiseman sang.

The Bird Sisters from Guelph fqllowed Wiseman w i t h w a r m melodies. Pulled into the.lineup of

Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keetor flaunts Cochrane - like mane.

rock bands because of the weather, the Sisters appeared a little out of place, but the variety they added to the afternoon was appreciated.

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet recruited Bob Wiseman for the afternoon’s highlight - Wiiman’s manic keyboard playing in conjunction with the Shadowy’s surfadelic instrumental rock Pink Floyd meets the Surfarris. “Hey!” W i s e m a n ’ s cameo here articulated the missing element of Blue Rodeo’s closing set.

Wiseman himself.

Sara Craig was to Sunday afternoon what Amanda Marshall was to Saturday. Loud and boisterous, she opened her lungs and more than filled the increasingly crowded arena.

Her set included a slowed down version of the Clash’s “Should 1 Stay or Should I Go.” After some technical dii&ies, The Good Brothers pleased the Father’s Day crowd with a cover of a Spinal Tap original. They got the crowd a toe tappin’ and a feet stompin: positively.

Strange Days continued with the groove and warmed the crowd over until Blue Rodeo - minus the aforementioned Bob Wiseman took the stage. And then it was loud.

Blue Rodeo are definitely a more rockin’band without an organ to back their sound (they replaced Wiseman with a steel guitar player), but it’s an open question whether they’re any better. The lo& of Wiieman was most evident during “Diamond Mine,” where the song’s organ solo was glaringly absent.

But to their credit, the hand’s h~o leaders, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, haven’t lost any of their drive to perform, and they put in a blistering set Keelor particularly took it upon himself to fill the gap in their sound, taking an extended solo at the end of “Diamond Mine” complete witi Neil Young-styled stomping and much flaying of hair.

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mannered people whose dark side has been brought to the surface by some catastrophic event Or b&strophic event, depending. Danny DeVlto’s Penguin is just a villain with a bad case of gingivitis and black spit who wants to find his real.family and name.

by Jeffrey L. Millar Xmprint staff

Bufrrrut~ hTmm.s lacks a couple of’ things: A. Jack Nicholson’s show-stealing performance, Also appearing is Christopher B. The dark, brooding intensity of the Walken as big-business swindler Max first film.

Shreck in a performance that could On the other hand, &ftnrtn Rctums only be a plot tool added by .mistake does have: . about a week before principal A. Michelle Pf&fer. In a cat suit. photography was to begin. Shreck, B. There is no B. With an A like that, mover’ and shaker as he is, helps the you don’t need a B. Penguin campaign for the mayorship In this installment of the Bahnan of Gotham, so Shreck can hatch saga, Michael Keaton’s Dark Knight whatever diabolical and en&o& does battle with the forces of evil, this mentally unsafe plots he wishes. The time in the form of a Cat and a sub-plot is badly conceived and, Penguin.

walken on!sunshine The movie opens on Chris-s &y with - SURPRISE! - a birth scene. The child is a defdrmed, evil, pet-eating monstrosity. Naturally, the parents decide to drown it Sheesh.

The cl-M drifts for sometime in a sewer (read - wander in desert for a spell) and Is eventually adopted by a group of apparently forgotten Emperor Penguins in the Bcwer beneath Gotham’s abandoned zoo.

Cut to Gotham, 33 years later, where the Penguin proclaims, “It’s time for me to ascend.Y%ese are but a few of the blatant Bibiiial allusions in the first hour of’ the movie. The remainder is a study of Good vs. Evil.

Every character, in one way or another, is a split personality.

Both Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Selina Kyle (Catwoman) are miki-

while 1 enjoy watching Walken perform, his role is pseless and could have been better used as a character trait of either villain.

Batman, then, must set out to prove that the Penguin is a no-good vlllain. hardly the choice for‘ mayor of a maior city (aR you listening June Rolands?).

Though there are action scenes aplenty - Batman actually flies thii time - the script and plot are not up to the original’s standards.

The film shines brightly, though, when Michelle Pfeiffer is in the !&me.

Her sinewy, prowling C&woman far outmatches &Vito’s screeching P+guin and Keaton’s broodmg bat Split horn her mousey, reserved persona, Catwoman oozes feline sexuality from every pore. Pfeiffer’s

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%aok into the eyes of Wchetle Pfeiir - there now s&s $ot Yh” appearances, thou& aie disappointingly few and far behvcen.

Far and away the best feature of the film, PfeltTer could have made f&rUUUI Returns into a far better film had she been allowed to romp with her role as Nicholson did with the Joker.

Having said all that, I feel guilty for having enjoj+d bkrrrllurr R&fmlS: The pacing is odd, but the movie still satis-

fies on some sub-ego level. The hero struggling for good is something we were born ,to appreciate, somehow, no matter what our Iii experiences. It must be in the genes.

rkanic Joker. Batman has lotsand lots of toys, but we’ve seen most of them -before. Only Pfeiffer’s performance offmi sornethiqg new.

The ingredients are similar to the firstarnrrCrrr: Thesets areas hu&eand dark as the first film’s, but lack the oppressiveness. The script shows flashes of humour and emotion, yet cannot measure up to Nicholson’s

And wd&y see more of her yet.

Given the nature of the movie’s endins pius the rumour~ t$at l&bin Williams has been signed by Warner to play the Riddler, a sequel seems inevitable. @MI ~UII iut~?k MI it 4)

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As with the rest of hi 37 reIeases, . the album travels from one end of the country telling stories of ordinary Canadians. Unfortunately, this album doesn’t have those memorable goofy songs in the same vain as “Bud the 5pud” or ‘The Ketchup Song”, most of it will only appea1 to the diehard fan who can appreciate where , _ Tom is coming from.

The most memorable songs are the ones about the present Canadian situaticm, these bemg the’ title track and the song “Johnny Maple” where I T o m rek &i the h rouble bel Frenl ch il ndE :n& sh Canadi 1 to ble between two lovers The song even mentions Big Joe Mufferaw, one of the most popular Stompin’ Tom characters.

“Believe in Y6ur Country” is a song which highlights the growing flood of Canadians thinking they will find a better’liie south of the border. The song has a great message about working together ‘to rebuild the country initead of just abandoning it and takenly identified as being from whothinktheonlymusic worth&heading to the States.

Nashville coming to play in a small tening to comes from somewhere The song which is the most fun on town in Ontario, the song is funny, else. Unfortunately, thase and a couthe ‘album has a performer misbut also has that Swipe at Canadians ple of other selections are the only

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This is a ser%nis bt i m ebfor the fihare of our country; paralleling this mood is the latest offering from in my opinion the greatest Canadian performer of all time, Stompin’ Tom Conliors.

The album is entitled IMicw irr . Your Cuurrr~ and pretty much encompasses the things he has been saying about Canada for the last 30 vears summed uo in the sentence “il you don’t b&&e your country should come before yours% you can better serve your country by living somewhere else.”

bv Frank Se&r&&s -b I Imptint stag . ” b, Well, my favourlte album so far this year has been found. The band is called the Hard Rock Miners and they play a fun type of country music in the spirit of Stompin’ Tom or Johnny Cash, with a few references to Canada thrown in just to get on my pod side.

As a counlry band you can imagine that the instrumentation includes:

slide guitar; fiddle, accordion, washboard, kazoo and banjo, while the song topics have to do with drinking fast cars and lost loves 1 first saw them on one of the If CUtuc+nm Canada compilations where they had a song called ‘The Third Person”and I eagerly waited for a full release from the band. The wait has been three years, but well worth it.

One of the great aspects’ of the album is the versatility of the musicians as each of the songs has its own~~onal~~~~ishelp~by~e lead vocals being shared between bandmembers Rob Thomson, Paul Gould, Micheal Turner, and Ingrid Percy, as well the rest of the band contributing on some of the choruses and just shouting out things out from time to time.

You never know where the songs are going to go. For instance, a few of them wili change into songs like “Whole I.&a Love” or “I Can’t, Get

N&Satisfacticm”‘while one song goes into a backbeat and the lead vocal starts to rap.

The second song on the album, “whiskey, whiskey,” is a song that I am sure even the Pogues would be proud to have recorded, while their cover of the Fine Young Cannibals “She Drives Me Crazy” ls simply amazing. ’ As far as “real” country songs go, you can’t find much better than “Nothing Beats the Rodeo” which has a great fiddle in it (you know me and my fiddle music), “Red’s Rag” which discusses going on the Long rimnlng Tommy Hunter show (this is timely as the CBC recently announced that the Tommy Hunter show is beii cancelled), and “Not the Blue Tail Fly,” a song about a country dance in Charlottetown, PBI. The music is simple and clear while the vocals are entertainlng and real; in iact, that is probabJy;&e best thing

about this album: the band seem lie real people with a genuine interest in entertaining people.

The cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “ T h e s e B o o t s Were Made for Walking” as well as one other song don’t

&es which stand out, the rest being more or less serious love songs where the tempo remains the same o n mosl t h e ielec ms.

Accompanying Stompin’ Tom are probably the best musicians he has ~~~dp~y~h~~~y~~rn: on fiddle is five-time North American Fiddle champion Graham Townsend, while Walter Ostanek (yes, the Grammy-nominated, host of CKCO’s Polka Time< (nor ,?o meittio~r

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So overall, a serlous album which says a lot about the state of our country and although most of Stompht’ Tom’s albums take a few listens to annreciate them, this one ml&n take a f% extra I hope that before Stompin Tom relaases hi next album, he listens to the Hard Rock Miners’ latest and remembers how he used to be.

do anything for me, but as only 2 out of the 1 4 songs on this album are mediocre, it bodes well for thii band which I sincerely hope will make an appearance in this area sometime this summer.

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The Rhinos, KW’s favourite musical sons, recorded this cassette I@ January at St. Jacobs Waxworks studio. The studio time was part of the band’s reward for winning the local segment of last summer‘s Band Warz, a national competition designed to root out Canada’s best original band.If there was any lingering doubt of The Rhinos’ musical status within the region, Ekcphuns und Bm should put it to rest.

Recorded -live, the cassette attempts to capture the energy of the bands voracious club performances.

And while such attempts are never entirely successful - as you listen to the cassette you have to provide your ownbouncingmad-capantics-The Rhinos sound like professionals beyond their years. They cross many musical barriers, playing a krose . variety of jazz; funk and reggae, and prove once again that popular radio’s musical formats are artificial and restrictive.

Old fans will recognize many favourites here. “Julie,“‘The Golfball Song,“and “The African One that Got Away” are three examples that illustrate the band’s versatility. “Julie” is a particular crowd pleaser - and has even taken on a life beyond the band,

%ome people think they have magic/Some peopte think they canfly/SomepeoprcFgoouttonightclubs/~stay heme and cry/From the comers of the oceans to the greatest mountain top/From tstanbul to Tfmbu&o/There’s a million people r;leepinglAndtheirhousesaUarebuningn”vegottowskethenr up real soofl.*

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being covered by joint Waterloo/ tells the sto& of a friend of Rhinos’ Queen’s band, Friends of Stu. A song guitarist, Mike Blancha&, who - get about a boy, a girl and her mad it? - lumped out of an airplane in a mother - “Julie’s mom her first tbundersbower, an experience you’d UFO the other day/ she’s been up of exPect to be chaotic if nothing else, the roof with a video cam since yes~t~e~~ss~~do~toar~ terday” - “Julie” alone is reason . &op by r&tip account. enough to check out this cassette.

The only thing that’s missmg from And see the band any chance you the cassette are the songs the band’s written since January. If you’ve seen F@ The Rhinos recently, for example, Other songs on the cassette, like you probabIy wish “Blephants and “Parachute in a Thundershower,” Bees” Included numbers like “Prayshow a more mfkzctive side of a band ing for Rain” or ‘Three is the Magic that introduced itself at Pop the Gator Number,“but until the band fhuis the recently by announcing “welcome to time (and cash) to record these tunes LULUS!” and spent part of their set you11 have to settle for seeing the raging on -the, stage with record band at. one of their gigs around sleeves on their heads “Parachute” town.

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by Dave Fisher Imprint staff His strains on “If It Kills You,” ‘TumItOff”and”SpikesOnYou”are particularly raw without ever rrinderT h e r e ’ s n o t h i n g a b o u t D r i v e Like Jehu’s self-titied debut that suggests ing the s o n g s a fate of dishonesty or anything against them earning a self-indulgence. following every bit as big as Faith No Whether their uncompromising M o r e , L 7 , N i r v a n a , o r Soundgarden a g g r e s s i o n will &a&ate b e y o n d t h e except, perhaps, their odd n&e and CKMS’s ,of t h e w o r l d , o r e v e n t h e i r dismaying lack of label support. own glorious anonymity, remains to Knowing next to nothing about be seen. Nevertheless, from the Drive Like Jehu myself (I believe deceptive 10-minute opus of “0 Pen-. they’re from the US West Co&, I c i l S h a r p “ - it doesn’t seem nearly concede that m y e n t h u s i a s m f o r t h i s that long - to thhe punishing fury of album has probably less to do with the two-minute “Atom Jack,” Drive critical merit &an a n e m b a r r a s s i n g Like Jehu demonstrate innovative reluctance to ever take it out of my versatility that easily equals the class tapedeck I’ve played it almost daily of any of their peers. for the past month and have yet to A formidable debut, Or& Like J&u appears destined for my hongroiv tired.

F e a t u r i n g pro&sive r h y t h m s a n d ours lit. “Future fiome of Stucco d a r i n g c o m p o s i t i o n s , J e h u serve up Monstrosity,” indeed.

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tains no new material. It is, instead, a complete compilation of all the Sist e r s ’ EPs released from 1980 to 1983.

This means that it contains some of their hardest to obtain, and arguably best, music. This is a must fm any fan and it- contains the class&s “1969,” “Temple of Love,” and “G-e Shelter.“ But an even .more compelling reason for owning this CD is that ‘unless you aheady own these rare EPs, the CD, contains music that you will have never heard before on other albums or on the radio.

Obviously the earliest of the material is mu& rougher and less prepared than what one hears from Andrew Eldritch today, and could be classed as mitigated noise, certainly pot an insult compared to what they w e r e t r y i n g t o a c h i e v e . E&itch describes his qusic in the liner’ as “the loudest noise possible in some of England’s most disgusting clubs.. . a

throbbing howl.. a tide of coiour and noise.”

The earliest EP (1980) sounds remarkably like Men %ith&t Ilats of the same era, Eldritch’s voice almost an exact match of Ivan’s This frenzied trio of songs distinctly shows the group’s influences, as they copy more than create. The Stooges, Bauhaus,’ and the Fall all float around in the sound.

The second EP contains “Body Ekxtric” and “Adrenochrome,” and was originally released in 1982. Two years of club gigs had defined the Sisters and th,eir s o u n d . I n “ B o d y Eiectric,” Eldritch has fourid his voice and sticks to it consistently. We are liitening to the Sisters of Mercy.

The majority of the CD contains t h e f i r s t f o u r S i s t e r s EJ?s released in 1983 before their tit album F~KY! and Last a n d Ahvgvs. These v o l u m e s c o n tain the best music the Sisters have and probably ever will-record. Raw and loud’yet structured and crafted, Gothic angst at its fullest, now lost to

commercial success and obvious loss of creativi~, Somt? Girh Wander 81; Misrnke presents to you the Sisters &f M e r c y .

The release of a recrated “Temple of Love” on a four-track EP is also incredible. “Temple of Love 1992 Touched By the Hand of Ofra Ha&’ makes the original version sound incomplete, imperfect. Although obviously more produced, ‘Temple” is not hidden by studio effects and the addition of Ofra Ha&s backup vocals adds anew dimension to thii anthem.

E&itch is grabbed by tie balls and pulled into the ’90s. The effect is a rejuvenated, original song, not merely a rehash of old Sisters.

The rest of the F.P is populated by remixes of ‘? Was Wrong“ “Viiion Thing,” and “When You Don’t See Me.” Not the Same caIibre as “Temple,” these are merely fillers and not particularly better than previous versions. ‘Temple of Love 1992” is cer~y~edmwfor~~s~and whata draw ‘it is.

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4 b y C h r i s Riedel i%pedaItoIm*t In 1990, Dublin’s Power of Dreams came into prominence in the British music press after the reIease of their w a r m l y r e c e i v e d d e b u t , ~f~~~?~~~ff~?~s, Em&ruu~.s NIXI M e Now, after a twoyear absence, the addition of another guitarist, and a startling change of musical direction, they are back with their second f&length release2 HP//

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S~FW is a very fine collection of mature songs. Retaining much of their energy and the addition of a second guitarist has given them the b i g s o u n d t h e y t r u l y relish. T h i s b i g sound combined with Walker’s knack of creating beautiful choruses has resulted insomevery gripping music.

2 Hc# With (brnnro~? &x~e simply postpones the inevitable. Power of Dreams have all the ingredients required for greatness, and a more focused album next time will put them whet+ they deserve to be.

Wit/7 @mm0tf Serrw.

A guitar-pop. band with an American influence, they had combined the passion of The Fat Lady Sings .with the energy of early RepIacements.

No longer sounding like the aforementioqed, they now invite comparisons to a whole smorgasbord of respectable bands.

With “She’s Gone ,” Power of Dreams have come up with the song The Grapes of Wrath have alwavs hoped to make, but never will, while ‘%in Down” and “Metalscape” are indicators of how well Nirvana are being received in ,&eland.

On “ U n t i t l e d ” , s o n g w r i t e r C r a i g WaIker reacts to Catholic Ireland, singing,“At school they taught us how to Live/ the way that God would want us to give/ all our money to the church.“In doing so he gives a nicely done vocal impression of Guy Chadwick (House of Love): Sadly, the overabundance of comparisons on this album results in a lack of musical identity. What is the rea1 P o w e r o f D r e a m s l i k e ? O n l y t h e singlt?s, “There I Go Again” and “Siow Down,” are similar to earlv P o w e r o f D r e a m s a n d i t i s doubt&l

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Thii o n e s h o w s c o n s i d e r a b l e improvement over their first.

“Flame On” and “ButtermiIk” continue to mine the same guitar-gnmge vein, but are more thoughtfully written than the group’s previous one&f exercises. And %&m S u m m e r ” i s a ‘real joy - a pop ballad spotlighkg some lovely violin work. (Or is it a cello? No matter.)

At @is point, Captain America stiU w o n ’ t c h a n g e t h e w o r l d , b u t if they keep growing at this rate, the album shouId be a real treat.

4-5 b y K e n t o n Augerman imprint staff S&l.qtu( Rd is the brilliant fourth LP from England’s Mega City Four, a quartet who sound Iiie a cross between Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and The W o n d e r stuff.

Band members Danny Brow (guitars and \:ocais), his brother Wiz @itars and vocals), Gerry Bryant (bass and vocals), and Chris Jones (drums) perform with the controlled intensity of a nuclear reactor as they deliver compelling songs about lying to gain accep?ptance Klown”), fear of change (“What’s Up“), overdependence (“Props”), alienation (“Peripheral‘), and loss o f f r i e n d s h i p (Tngue’~.

Reports suggest that the Meg? have toned down their act somewhat on S&sto/)o1 Rci, moving away from t h e r a w n e s s f o u n d hi t h e i r p r e v i o u s releases Tr~tr~~zopl~chiu (1989), Who Cmvv Wins (1990), and the singles c o m p i l a t i o n ~&P+M~SO~BO/~ (1991).

Unfortunately, the.2 back catalogue is available on import only, so confirming these reports is diicult to do at the present time.

The best songs on .%~u.w~Io~ Rd are “Ticket Collector,” “Clown,” and the single, “Stop,” but the other eight tracks are impressive as well.

Mega City Four has already toured Canada in support of S~Jba.sla~~~ Rd and they currently have a post.%hm-topol single sitting at number two on the UK indie charts, so it appears as though they’re putting this release behind them.

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’ The connections and allusions are still in place - in some instances the connections have become more valid than ever - but with three albums under their belt, Buffalo Tom are finally being recognized, and rightfully so, as a force of their own.

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Ironically, the weakest track on this album was chosen to be the. first emphasis track. “Velvet Roof” is a fine it oresent+ fairiv tvnica! Buffalo Tom fodder. This iack’cif emphasis has more than been rectified bv the release of “Taillights hde” as the second sin& tram 1,ci <*

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It looked as though it might not happen, but after a I&gthy a%sence, XTC are back with the release of their’ tenth album, Nonsuch. Along with this release, it seems that XIC are breathing new life into their musical career.

I had read that XTC were plagued by many problems while making this album, one of which was the rejection of new material by their record company,.Viigin. T+ey apparently gave them the option of reworking the sogg3 or accepting less money with which to make the album. 1 then ing vocals and the regulation recalled Andy Partridge once saying textured, layer& guit.+r. But there’s that when someone star&telling him how to make ‘music then its time to more to substantiate a claim that this took for a new record deal. I assumed is one of the finest post-Isn’t Anyththey would chose to work with less ing’works in existence.

You’re confronted with a feeling’ money: Now I’m not so sure.

XTC thank their “native guides that goes beyond the music, burrowing deep inside, invading long- through the financial jungle” in their forgotten memories. There’s, the liner notes. However, after hearing the album I can only conclude that haunting bincerity of a masterfullv reworked “hair shoes”; the frantic, they pointed out the importance of chaotic thrusts amongst the angst- selling records if one wishes to keep ridden rhythms of “liquid”; the car- .making them.

Nonsuch is the most accessible efully measured outbursts peering through the introspective , wan- album XTC has ever made. As a result, its first single “The Disappoinderings of “never-ending night”..

These are the marks of a band that ted” has given them their first top-40 built the scene, They can be loud and hit in Britain since 1982’s “Senses obtrusive with the rest of them, but Working Overtime”, and the album how many of the others can claim the has charted as well. Furthermore, subtleness that pervades the essence they are apparently set to give their of this music? While the masses first full concert in ten years in July or moshedlthe Saints have quietly com- August, probably out of necessity.

NevertheIesssVonsuchh is not a bad ‘piled one of the most beautiful, spccalbum. In fact, it is a great album. tral offerings of the year, Too bad they seem destined to lan@sh in relative There are 17 tracks on the album and, obscurity while they wait for the rest as usual, Andy Partridge is responsof ‘the world to catch up. But it ible for the bulk of the work.Continuing their quest for pop perfection, wouldn’t seem right any other way. there are a number of straightforward pop songs, as well as the bizarre, and the beautiful.

Flawlese musicianship and intriguing arrange’ments are present on every track. The inclusion of strings on tracks lie “Rook” and ‘54rapped In Grey”show that XTC are not afraid to use whatever instruments they feel are most appropriate for a particular song.

The only problem with this album is that there is nothmg new. The Beatle influence is, again+ overwhelming and whereas, in the past, they progressed from one album to the nest, Nonsuch js reallv a continuation of their last album,*That is not so bad, however, as Oranges undLemom was a great album. XTC have, once again, come up with an exceptional album, one that most other bands would Id for.

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by Steve Gamble special to the Imprint Forefathers to the footwear watchers, Leeds’ finest (no, not the football club) the Pale Saints, return with their second album, ifr i?ilrbwts.

Though somewhat in the same vein as their labelmates Lush and others, the caption on the center of the disc says it all: “scene but not herd.”

Sure, all those horrible labels can be applied to their music as well. Present is the obligatory ethereal, float-

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Having laid low for the past four years, watchiig the shoegazers and madchester lads slowly maneuver their way to the front of the stage, the Jesus and Mary Chain have returned with guitars blazing ready to kick all their baggy butts up to the North Sea. The first two singks km the new album, “Reverence” and “Far Gone and Out” preview an energetic and finely tuned ma&he ready to return to the music world.

At first, it seems as though the

by Christopher Waters rmpnnt staff Perhaps the finest compliment that one may pay to an item of art is the estimation “1 wish l had done that.”

Now don’t get me wrong, this estimation is miles away from the ignorant’s refrain of “I could have done that.”

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In this case, I am not standing in front of “Voice of Fire,” or anything that Jackson Pollock ever drip painted, and saying my l&monthold niece Emma-could do better, F+.we, you could have, I could have, and yes, Emma could have done Jackson Pollock’s “Conveqence,” but we did not think of the idea; moreover, luckily we weren’t as wigged out as Pollock to think of the idea, until we saw the work in all of Jts majestv.

In general,- this is an incrediblv strong release which showcases the vocal pairing of Colhourn and Janovitr. Both of these men arc not afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves, a tip that they have taken not from Iron John but rather from Irons Bob (Mould) and Grant (Hart).

The passion with which thev perform their material, especially “Larry,” “Mineral,” and “Frozen Lake,” is such that it has to be wrung out of their instruments. In fact, Buffalo %m,make the power ballad genre respsctable again.

After the completion of their recent Toronto show suppqrting My Bloc& Valentine, a bewildered Chris Wodskou, hot

So, mumbling ignorance in front of the work as vou drool down the front of your shirt only marks vou a s a pathetic yahoo, so stop it. timpower Jourself as you listen to Buffalo Tom’s third album, Lci hfc (i~/trc, 0124, and find yourself saying a heartfelt, and more than a little bit envious, “Man, 1 wish I had done that.”

The laurels upon which this lavish praise is founded can be found in the collective work of Bostonians’ Bill Januvitz, Tom. Maginnis, and Chris Colbourn. This power trio has long lingered in the shadows of their&m inspirations, most notably Dinosaur Jr. and Husker Du. But with this release, Buffalo Tom more than prove their mettle; they are more than Dinosaur Jr. Jr., more than Husker DLI Du.

of~Imorint at ‘ts, said of Buffalo Tom: “Man: no one can emote like thcv can.” (How’s that for a Joel Rubinoff addendum quote?)

A veneration to, which I would have to heartily concur. Se&n& out of the air, Buffalo Tom have plucked universal slices of life which they proceed to bash out in an aggressive, passionate stream of consciousness.

Lcf .h’(~ Cimc lhr, if not bursts the pigeonholes to which Buffalo Tom have been allocated, then completely negates their relevancy. Sure, thev may be molded in the style of their predecessors; however, the words and music which they play are uni-. qucly their own. Words and music which should be subject to a much wider audience then this band is currently reaching.

JAMC have just about had it, ‘Reverence” being somewhat of a death wish “I warma die just Iike JFK/ I warma die on a sunny day . . .” sings Jii Perhaps a rather morbid pop hook. butthere’s something delicious about seeing a large group of dmnken students flopping around and singing these lyrics Kinda got me thinking. I suppose if I wanted to kill myself, I’d fly a plane into the White House or some importarit like the New York Stock -. building ^_.. . ., Exchange. Ur I’d want to get snot by some secret service guys right after I offed the president. Whatever made me famous would be fine.

Thgty2 Angles a r e w e l c o m e additions to the JAMC discography seeing as how it’s been four years since the Mary Chain released their last album Aurbmatic, and fans have had only the “Rollercoaster” EP to keep them busy; but if these two singles are any indication, Hbneyi D a d could easily be one of the most entertainii JAMC albums, and one of the best this year. Both tracks are awash in feedback and fuzz, droning guitars and some pretty messed up lyrics

The “Reverence” 12-inch includes two non-IT tracks, “Heat” and “Guitarman,” and a diaappomting remix of “Reverence.“ Except for the remix, the entire single is well worth the cash; the Jesus and Mary Chain do fairly well with their B-sides (“Some Candy Talking”“Rollercoaster”. . .) and’+Barbed Wire Kisses” is a testament to how ent&aining their scrapscan b e .

“Far Gone and dut”is no less thrilling with looping guitars and perhaps (III.rune, II..,. a more aanceame our me osides on this item are even more enjoyable than on the “Reverence”’ single. “Why’d You Want Me?” and Sometimes” are both slow acoustic tracks displaying William and Jim’s ability to unplug and still make enjoyable music ~~es~glespro~lyw~~~ any cotiverts, but are well worth a spin or two. With ticks such as these’ as weU as the previously released “Boilercoaster” and %rgar Ray” on the new album (the later from the Freejack soundtrack), the JAMC continue their ascent and assure them martyrdom anytime they so wish

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review b y C h r i s t o p h e r W a t e r s Imprint staff American storyteller Spaldmg Gray has p l u n g e d i n t o t h e l i t e r a r y w o r l d with h i f i r s t novel I~l~.~sibi~ Yucniott. With this novel, f o l l o w i n g the h i s t o r i c a l p r o g r e s s i o n , G r a y ’ s narrative form has translated from oral to written.

$alding Gray established himself when he turned a bit part in tbe Roland Joffe movie, Th~~iiiitt~ Fi&h, into a one-man show which he called Swirnrnina . to CaModia. Following ‘, his success with Switnmi~lg

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which was capped off with a film version directed by Jonathan Demme, Gray turned his attention to a performance piece entitled Momt~r in the Box. The monster in this case w a s h i s 1,900-page m a n u s c r i p t o f hn~msihl~ K.wtion, and Mottsrtir in the Box was a piece fueled by the t r a v a i l s o f w r i t i n g a n d e d i t i n g the great American novel.

The title of i~n~~~ibi~ Vacutiutt takes on new and differing meanings throughout the novel. its meaning snakes though Gray’s narrativ& b e c o m i n g s i g n i f i c a n t a t n u m e r o u s points. The vacation suggested in the title pertains almost exclusiyel y to Gray’s protagonist, 3rewster North, whose fanatical diversions to life shape his essence of life.

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holds to the belief that black women writers are doubly discriminated against in their quest for intellectual recognition. They are, it is said, excluded from the discussions that determine acadtrnic excellence fit because women’s experiences are generally devalued in our culture, and second because whiti! people simply don’t try hard enough to understand black people.

Toni Morrison is one of the few writers, along with Alice Walker, to have broken through thii cultural barrier. She won the 1988 Ptiiker Prize for her novel Beloved and has just released Juzz t o s t r o n g i f s o m e w h a t confused critical acclaim. Affirming the notion that institutions of power are unable to u n d e r s t a n d m a r g i n a l v o i c e s , ?Tme magazine’s r e v i e w o f Jazz p r a i s e d M o r r i s o n ’ s l i t e r a r y ability while confessing not to understand her purpose.

The novel’s plot is contained in its first&ntences, quoted above. Simply put, the novel is about a couple who grow apart as they grow old. He takes a young lover, who leaves him.

He kills his lover. Life goes on, somewhat like before. But also radically different.

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wbicb stems largely from hi Oedipal complex. Brewster’s problem begins at age five with a life changing moment when, not surprisingly, on a family vacation to the beach, he hears”the word ‘Bali’ for the first time”and, in his mind, he is reborn.

Tb epiphany comes to him courtesy of hi mother’s brother, Jib who had just returned from the war at Bali bringing with hi a monkey mask for young Brewster. For Brewster, Bali becomes an exotic land which he must visit. A land, or more aptly a word, which becomes by the end of the novel akin to hi self-conscious search for self.

T h o u g h o u t t h e s u n d r y thwarted and fru+ hated vacations which comprise Brewster North’s life, journeys which take him from the top (the Himalayas) to the bottom (theGrand C a n y o n ) o f t h e w o r l d with a s i m i l a r j o u r n e y i n h i s p s y c h o l o g i c a l mindet, he learns that among his impossible vacation is that it is impossible to escape from family, from self, above all from morality for in thii drama, just as in life, death does not take,a h o l i d a y .

Spalding. Gray has seemingly done the i m p o s s i b l e w i t h t h i s noveL H e h a s writterta n o v e l w h i c h , b o r d e r i n g o n i n s a n i t y , i s dep raved, strange, and black; however, at the same time, is funny, true, and endearing. in a b o o k which b l u r s t h e p r o t a g o n i s t ’ s thinking and imagination, Spalding Gray has blurred autobiographical fact with his own quirky brand of fiction in order to relate a tare fraught with the notion of the impossibility of attaining earthly paradise, and in doing so he has crafted not only a great read but also a notable addition to his unconventional canon.

indivi&al’s q u i r k s a n d fantasies, a n d a f t e r a while it is difficult to discern the victims from the offenders. Everyone is hurting, everyone is looking for redemption.

Likely this is not what you’d expect from a novel about a love triangle and a murder. But Morrison’s point is that there are not easy answers, the roots of the problem run deep.

The symptoms may be obvious, but the causes are certainly not. Jffz e x p l o r e s ( a s a Charlie Parker solo explbres; it wanders, but always to the right place) the depth of this theme, celebrating human connections at the same time as it points out the consequences of their failings.

Love’s connections may be frail, Morrison pain and anguish, but they arc also life’s strongest bonds. Jm plays w&h this paradox.

The purpose of the novel, then, is simple.Juz is jazz. That is all. Nothing more, nothing less.

And as Louis Armstrong once said, “If you have to ask what’s jazz, you’ll never know.”

As a cultural phenomena, the novel dcserves to be discussed within the con&t of con- ” temporary race and gender relations. A novel a b o u t b l a c k p e o p l e i n H a r l e m i n t h e 19206, Jazz speaks the voices of a marginaliied people who feel they’ve moved up in the world.

The readers, however, who know how hollow these dreams of 70 years ago are, can see the tragedy in the characters’ ambitions, Just as they can see how little has changed with regards to violence against women.

But Jazz i s n o t a n o v e r t l y p o l i t i c a l nbvel, though in a completely subversive way the novel points out the commonalities that bind all people. These are the connections of emotion, thP n e e d t o b e l o v e d , u n d e r s t o o d a n d w a n t e d . A n d t h o u g h t h e s e c o n n e c t i o n s function on the level of individuals, they are also symptomatic of our culture as a whde.

Says one character: “All kinds of white peop l e a r c t h e r e . T w o k i n d s . T h e o n e s that feel sorry for you and the ones that don’t And b o t h a m o u n t t o the same thjmg. N o w h e r e i n between is r e s p e c t . ”

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such is not the case as MercuryRev are part of the ever-burgeoning Buffalo scen& . . . well, 1 don’t know about any scene, hut they are from Buffalo.

Bolstering a lead singer who looked like equal parts of Tiny Tim

and Ronnie James Dio, and a flute player, along with a conventional rock ‘n’ roll band set-up, MercuryRev began their set with great promise.

However, after two or three songs it was nothing but y~eitris~~c~ itkde the

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The last My Bloody Valentine show was a test of pain endurance. Those in attendance at the Opera House left L with ears and eyes bleeding from the-4 intensity of the Valentine’s sonic set ii Their perforirrance was a .mind- 1 numbrmgly beautiful piece of sonic $ architecture built on a foundation of 2 sheer volume with girders of muted 8 melody.

Thus, the stage was set for the f hand’s return to Toronto this past. ’ which the band has spawned in the ton’s finest power trio came onto week, and .while this time round the past year, were lost in thii night’s stage and not only played loudly but band’s performance was, for the most murky mix. loudly with a passionate melody. pa* painless, unfortunately, it was The tentative nature of My Bloody Their set highlighted their &test also, for the most part, pleasureless.

Valentine’s lie performance became release, LL+ Me Come Over, but also Given the band’s predilection for quite apparent on this night as very touched back to their earlier two stud& perfection, it was ironic that few of their numbers elicited that releases, SU;@WW Strit and +y Bloody Valentine’s performance ineffable s+dpted soundscape Birdhmitt. on Monday seemed to be devoid of quality upon which the band&huge Buffalo Tom had a loyal follow.ing anything more than the mere reputation has been founded. When pack the front of the stage for their mechanics of performing their numbers failed, the audience was left energetic set. A set which compelled material. with nothing except an insanely loud theassembled tocall themback for an A pour night at the sound board wall of noise. playing without a set encore - “Mineral” from f.e/ MP produced a mix which buried the lit, having the next number just stem Co~c 01’er. vocals of BIinda Jayne Butcher and naturally from-its predecessor, My Opening thii evening was BufKevin Shields deeper than their Bloody Valentine fall into being the falo’s MercuryRev. First off, it was objective. indiitinguishable Grateful Deaf for the 199% quite simply amazing to discover that Moreover, the sampled bits, which Perhaps, the reception of My this outfit was from Buffalo. Having generally control the melody of the Bloody Valentine would have been got their start via the British music band’s material and consequently different had they not had Buffalo paper NME, it was generally assumed * ditinguish the band as being far that the band was British, However, superior to the legion of imitators Tom onstage right before them. Bcs-

The Pale Saints w&h in April March and Acid Test T h e Qrw Hou.w June23,1992

by Steve Gamble special to Imprint A free cdpy of the “Throwing Back the Apple” single to the first 50 people who showed up at the gig. I think that might explain why there were about 50 people there for most of the night Nice crowd, Toronto. 1 guess they&new something 1 didn’t.

It was a really strange choice of opening bands. An April March, feature-d recently on the 1992 CFNY new music search, played veq. competent but tentative music. ‘Initshing For Rain” featured some lovely progre%ions and a nice build-down at the end, only to be trounced on by the obligatory noise bit’ with some of work they might go somewhere, but Acid Test really did not fit on the ml as tfiq did their best B-52 imitation to start ‘the show. All you needed to see was the first song. then repeat ad infinitum. Nice wah-

wah, though hugely overused.

The Pale Saints hit the stage amongst a myriad of technical diffkdties Once the mike shock thing was Sorted out, they proceeded to spin a very tight web of interh4ned melodies and traipsing afterthoughts.

The set liit was varied, featuring tYW&?nt versions of ‘Porpoise” and “Hunted” from Flesh Balloon and “Baby Maker” from HdlfLife. “100~ Stars Burst Open” from /II Ribhwn may have been the highlight of the night.

But then they had to go and completely ruin the evening, Admittedly, the crowd wasa bit lame, hut just how much can you dance to thii sort of thing? I really didn’t need the drummer threatening not to play any more urdess we showed a bit more life. It turns out that we were just standing there, bemg very boring to look at all night. Now, Pale Saints, just what ~010~ was that kettle again?

This one sho$d have been really good. But at the end of the day, the Pale Saints timed out to be just pale imitations. Do yourself a favour and just listen to the album. But tape it from a friend. 1 can’t stomach the ~~k~~~~~~~~~~~~~~the

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