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University of Waterloo students won top prizes in a national competition held recently in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Paul Morris, who worked under the supervision of Prof. Robert LeRoy, claimed first prize and $300 for his research submission in the National Undergraduate Student Poster Competition, sponsored by the Canadian Society for Chemistry. Also, Heather Dansig, a UW graduate currently in a PhD program at Texas A & M University, received the physical/theoretical chemistry division award for the best oral presentation by a student. Second prize in the baster contest went to Christine Bradasic of McMaster University in Hamilton. Sixteen posters - e&h displaying a research topic - were presented by students from Calgary to Halifax. Other UW students participating in the event were Michael Lam, supervised by Prof. Vassili Karanassios, and Jim Jaquith, supervised by Prof. Scott Collins.
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A skills-development certificate program aimed at helping professiongls raise money for ihe-& will be held at the University of Waterloo Aug. 9 to 27. The Summer Institute for Arts Income Development focuses on fund- raising, marketing, publicity and public relations, board and volunteer management, community relations and artist; quality and asp&tions. It combines classes and workshops with field trips to major American and Canadian performing and visual arts institutions The program is intended for arts professionals with one to three years jxperience, as well as people interested in developing a career in arts marketing or fund-raising. Theinstitute is billed as the only comprehensive certificate training program in North America exclusively devoted to the improvement of skills in arts income development. It is co-sponsored by the Association of Canadian Orchestras, Centre for Cultural ManagementlUniversity of Waterloo and Genovese,
The University of Waterloo’s director of development, Don Livingston, and director of alumni affairs, Joy Roberts, have received recognition awards for professional achievement. Livingston was named Professional of the Year by the Canadian Association of Edu&tion Development Officers. A past-president of the association, he has served on its board for six years and chaired its successful McConnell fellowship program for five years. Roberts was named Professional of Year by the Association of Canadian Alumni Administrators. Previously, she has served on the executive of both provincial and national alumni administrators associations. Both awards were presented at the national associations’ conferences held in Victoria, B.C., as part of the annual get- together of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education.
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Applications are now being accepted for the following awards. The application deadline is June 25 unless otherwise stated. Detailed information on these and other awards can be found in Chapter 4 of the Undergraduate Calendar. Applications are available from the Student Awards Office, 2nd Floor, Needles Hall. Faculty of Engineering Canadian Posture and Seating Centre Scholarship, available to all engineering students. Deadline: September. 30, 1993. Shell Canada Ltd. Award, available to 3rd or 4th year engineering students. Deadline: September 30. 1993. Faculty of Mathematics Shell Canada, available to 3rd or 4th year computer science students. Deadline: September 30, 1993. Faculty bf Applied Health Sciences Mark Forster Memorial Award, available to 3rd and 4th year kinesiology students. Deadline: January 1994. Ron May Memorial Award, available to 3rd or 4th year recreation students. Deadline: October 15, 1993.
Career Resource Centre - Evening Hours: Open every Wednesday till 7:OO p.m.. Research: employers, careers, work/study abroad or educational opportunities. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation of Waterloo offers confidential peer counselling. Call 884-GLOW for information, direction, or just to talk. Ten scholarships will be awarded to students wishing to undergo Mandarin language training and degree studies in Taiwan. You must be a Canadian citizen and enrolled as a full-time student. For more info and application forms contact: International Division, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, 151 Slater St., Ottawa, Ont. Kl P 5Nl. Tel. 1613) 563-l 236 or fax (613) 563-9745.
is located on the roof of the Village 1 Complex, will remain open from 8:30 a,m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday starting June 14, through to August 28, 1993 and from l&O0 a.m. to 3:OO p.m. on Saturdays from June 19 to August 28, inclusive. When the office is closed, accomodation lists may be obtained from the Turnkey at the Campus Centre or from the Seckty Office. ’ Volunteers Needed - K-W Access-Ability is looking for adventurous volunteers to help with our summer recreation programs. If you would like to get involved call Jennifer at 885-6640 for more details. A - (9 days) 0 Holy Saint Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ; the faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you, to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I propose to make your name known and cause your name to be invoked. Three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys, three Glories, St. Jude, pray for us and all who invoke your aid, publication must be promised. This novena has never known to fail. Unl‘t e d N&Ions Assoaatlon In Canada are inviting applicants for a Work Partner Programme in Ghana (Volta region) for ages 21-25. Beginning in October 1993 the participant must raise $3,OUO. All interested contact: UNA-Canada National Office, 808-63 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ont., KtP 5A6. Phone (613) 2325751 ; fax (613) 563-2455. ‘student Volunteer Centre IS open for the summer months. Hf>urs are Monday 11:30-3:00 ; 12:00-l ;oo ; Tuesday Wednesd; y 12:00-l :00, 2:00-3:00 ; Thursday 12:00-4:OO. Call 885-l 211, ext.
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MONDAY, JULY 19,20,21 & 22 Bike I.D. - the Turnkey Desk is sponsoring bicycle identification. Etch your favourite number to counter bicycle theft. S.E. corner of the Campus Centre.
“There is nothing worse than a student with a camera.” Come and see what WATfilm is all about. Meetings at 7:30 p.m. in CC1 38A+ or call Phil at 725-6401.
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Join the conspiracy of hope! Amnesty International meets tonight at CC 135 at 7:30 p.m. lJW House of Debates meets at 5:30 p.m. in Phys 313. We debate everything from the muppets to the war in Bosnia. Everyone welcome, especially novices. For more detail contact lrit at 725-8890 or Eugene at 725-5970.
Kitefliers of Waterloo, Unite! Come out to the Columbia Fields to fly stunters, rokakkus, indian fighters and even single line deltas. Every windy Wednesday from 11:OO a.m. onwards, weather permitting. For info call 884-2157.
Venture Capitalist will provide seed money to students who are developing promising software programs. For further information call (416) 366-7758 or write with proposal and resume to “Ceyx Properties Ltd., 701 King St. W. Suite #403, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W7.”
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2 Bedroom apartments available immediately. Near University campus 10 Austin Drive (Waterloo). Call Bill: 88621 23 (super). For September - 5 bedroom house for rent. Walking distance to University on quiet crescent. Parking, laundry, bus route. $265./roam. 746-0228. Live tree..,ba a House Mgr. . ..nlce big houses, rent out 2 houses (next to each other) and get a free room [all year). Absentee landlords need someone &I! Call l-641-0647 John. 5 bedroom townhouse available Sept. 1. $I,1 50lmonth. Located on Bluevale Street. 1-763-1988 (Guelph). Fhse for rent - 5 bedrooms, close to UW, 4 applinces. $290./roam. Available Sept. l/93. Call (416) 509-3284.
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While Ontario universities struggle to trim millions of dollars from their 1993-l 994 budgets, the Government of Ontario has managed to approve the opening of two new French-language colleges of applied arts and technology, and will build a permanent campus for La Cit& coll&giale in Ottawa, Ontario will contribute $120.7 million to this initiative over a multiyear period and absorb all human resource adjustment costs. Minister of Education andTraining David Cooke made the July 9 announcement of the investment in French-language College Education. “Investing in education and training is key to the economic recovery of the province. A French-language college system will ensure that France-Ontarians have access to high-quality college education,” he stated. One French-language college will be established in Northern Ontario with its main campus in the Sudbury area. Satellite campuses scattered throughout Ontario will be based on a “college without walls” concept and will rely mostly on altet= native delivery modes, including dis-
tance education technologies. A permanent campus in Ottawa will help La Cit& coll&giale accommodate its increasing enrollment. The college will remain in its leased facilities until the opening of the permanent campus. University of Waterloo’s French Language Studies Undergraduate Advisor Mr. A. Ages is torn between emotions. “Although I am pleased to encourage community college study of the French language, the decision comes at a peculiar time when Ontario Universities are in a state of financial crisis.” The general feeling of the Faculty is one of ambivalence. Each ofthe new colleges will be governed by a French-speaking Board of Governors appointed by the Ontario Council of Regents. The nomination process will take into account the diversity of the Francophone population and will be conducted in collaboration with the Advisory Committee of Francophone Affairs. The Board’s membership will be announced in the fall of 1993. The new French-language &tleges and permanent Ottawa campus of La Citb coll6giale are scheduled to open in September 1995.
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On July I, UW once again gave the local community the largest Canada Day celebration in the region. Between 35,000 and 40,000 people attended the day-long festivities, with hundreds of UW students volunteering their time to organize and put on the events. Starting with a parade up to Columbia Lake, the celebration featured face painting, an environmental fair hosted by WPIRG, and children’s activities hosted by the Engineering and Math societies. A number of local bands, including Huellas and the Scott Deneau Band, gave highly popular free performances. The day
ended with a fireworks display paid for by Waterloo’s Canada Day Council. Lori MacKay, the Fed’s Special Events Coordinator, was happy with the turnout, despite its falling short of last year’s 60,000+ people, pointing to the special significance of the ” 125th” Canada Day. She also had high praise for the over 200 Waterloo students who spent hours on Canada Day to make it the fun event it was. Many student societies also helped out, and “dozens” of companies donated funds and materials to the Canada Day Council. The City of Waterloo also donated considerable funds to the event. This is the ninth year Waterloo has hosted the free event.
by Ron Dick
In a spectacular Monday afternoon blaze, the remaining structures at Seagrams’ Erb St. distillery were destroyed. Hundreds of people watched as one of the few buildings not slated for distruction by the hard liquor giant was Welled. No one was injured, and the Seagram’s Museum was not damaged. No cause for the blaze has been found yet.
University of Waterloo employees making more than $30,000 per year may have to take up to I2 unpaid days off between now and April 30, 1994, including the week of August 14-20, as part of UW’s efforts to cut $I I .5 million from its payroll. Vice-president, academic and provostJim Kalbfleisch explained the possible implications of the provincial NDP government’s Social Contract Act to a meeting of department heads on Wednesday, July 7. Another university-wide shutdown may come on February 2 I-22, 1994, with the remaining five days being flexible. For those making under $30,000 per year, would have to take the seven shutdown days as part of their holidays. UW must cut a total of $I I.5 million from payroll spending ($0.5 million from the church colleges), but can receive a discount of sorts of $1.4 million if employer and employee groups can reach a written agreement by August I on how the cuts should be made. The pay cuts produced by these unpaid days off would be deducted from paycheques for the nine months remaining in this fiscal year (September to April), about 6. I per cent per month. The unpaid days would produce about $4.9 million in savings, according to the UW Guzeae. Another $4.8 million would come from rescinding pay increases already
promised. Kalbfleisch and UW President lames Downey have both said that they think job losses should not be necessary. Uw’s board of governors will meet on Monday, July 26 to discuss other options. At meetings in the last couple of weeks, Kalbfleisch also pointed out that productivity expectations for both faculty and staff will have to be revised. *‘There’s no way you can expect the same productivity from people with I 2 fewer working days,” the Gazette quoted him as saying. Kalbfieisch also responded to people’s concerns about the “fairness” of the government’s handling of the affair. “Fairness and equity are very much as defined by the government,” he told them. “There’s no guarantee whatsoever that they won’t do this to us again.” According to the framework agreement tentatively reached between UW and the provincc “It is essential to ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all University employees, while preserving the University’s ability to attract, retain, and recognize the contributions of their employees in a manner consistent with its mission.” Also, the framework agreement states that employment programs such as empiayment equity will not be affected by the Social Contract legislation. The framework agreement is to be returned to the government with UW’s approval later this month.
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Beginning at noon tomorrow, the University of Wat&loo’s Women’s Centre proudly presents the 2nd Annual Walk Abreast, to be held at Waterloo Park. An event that seeks to promote greater awareness of sexist laws and gender inequalities in our judicial sys-
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Last Wednesday a forum was heid on the quality of education here at UW. About 40-50 representatives from students, faculty, and administration attended to discuss common problems. President Downey said at the forum that he was impressed by the students’ initiative in starting the quality of education task force. Participants broke up into their respective groups to brainstorm problems. When they got back together, they found many overlapping problem areas. The problems were then dis-
of education? cussed further in smatl, mixed groups. Some problems mentioned were: s teaching evaluations (what should they measure?), the tenure process (should quality of teaching count?), and qualifications of TAs (should they be more consistent?). The familiar topics of underfunding, class size, changing technology, and language barriers were also discussed. Professors do not have to attend teacher’s college like elementary and high school teachers. To improve their teaching techniques, they could be making more use of TRACE, the teaching resource office. Students learn differently today than they did ten
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rested at the march, all of whom were acquitted. The rally enjoyed an extraordinary turn-out of around 1500. This year, organizers are not expecting any arrests, although the possibiltiy has not been ruled out. Purple ribbons will be available for supporters of the cause, and gawkers (you know who you are) need not attend. Tripping over frothing tongues is most embarrassing for all concerned.
years ago; faculty who have been here for a while may not have changed how they teach accordingly. The forum brought the different groups involved in educating students together. The participants were able to start a dialogue by communicating their needs to one another. Sharon Flood, vice president, student affairs, says the forum was an “extremely positive experience.” She feels the fact that this discussion arose from students themselves is important. Eventually the information gathered from the forum and the forthcoming student survey will appear in a 5O-page report, available to all interested parties.
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On another front, on WednesdayJuly 7, I993 students, faculty and administration gathered in the Campus Centre Great Hall for the first ever quality of teaching forum. The forum was organized by the Federation of Students Board of Academic Affairs chair David Drewe. PresidentJim Downeygave an opening speech commending students on their efforts and initiatives for ad-
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Three constituency groups gathered privately and voiced their concerns over teaching quality, coming up with a list of their top priorities. All threegroups shared commonalties such as teaching quality as a requirement for tenure, teacher evaluations, qualifications of T.A.‘s and class size. Students ranked the tenure process as their number one concern, while both faculty and administration ranked teacher evaluations as a top priority. After the lists were made, groups from all constituencies gathered to discuss their concerns. Speaking for Environmental Studies, Dean Kay noted that ‘*faculty are not taught how students learn; teaching material is very different from teaching students”. She obsewed that what is helpful to students today is quite different from I2 years ago. She is concerned about the effectiveness of teaching by faculty members and about the role of the TRACE ofice. This forum created a means for feedback for all constituency groups. A special thanks goes to all those who participated. It is the hoped that all faculty will take this seriously, especially when their peers have this initia tive.
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Creating a world of hate by Stuart O’Grudy special to Imprint Residents in the Kitchener Waterloo areu were shocked recent/y by the wove of rucist rullies in the downtown core. The rallies prompted local anti-racists, including n-my WPlRG members, to support a demonstrution against the supremacists. The demonstration, which took pluce five weeks ago, almost turned violent when anti-racists charged the white supremacists, This artick /oaks ot one ofthe supremcist organizations. Next to the Heritage Front, the Church of the Creator (COTC) is probably one of the larger and more visible white supremacy groups active in Ontario. Although less well known in Canada than the Front, COTC is feared because it is “one of the most vicious groups, not being satisfied with a white homeland but rather seeking to destroy non-whites,” according to Marcy Louz, Executive Director of the Georgia based Neighbours Network. L The Toronto Sun quoted intelligence sources saying that “the Creators are a militant and dangerous paramilitary organization.” The group in the past has provided ‘security seTvices’ for the Heritage Front, the largest white supremacist group in Canada, and co-sponsored an early June event with the Front in KitchenerWaterloo. Its primary slogan is “RAHOWA,” which stands for RAcial Holy WAr. Imprint was unsuccessful in attempts to contact COTC’s Canadian leader, George Burdi, security chief Eric Frazer, and the central church office. Frazer is allegedly the director of the “White Beret” training program in Canada. The White Berets are the hard-core paramilitary members of the organization. Burdi is also a member of the rock group RAHOWA, which recently toured Ottawa and Toronto to promote the Heritage Front and its own organization. Thegroup was schedul’ed
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to come to Kitchener for a white supremacist recruitment drive with the Heritage Front, but had to cancel as they were unable to obtain a municipal event site license. According to Klanwatch, an Alabama based organization, “law enforcement agencies consider the group extremely dangerous and believe it is building a large stock pile of weapons” in Canada with the assistance of the U.5 head office. The Georgia based Neighbours Network provided several issues of a magazine that they claimed were put out by the Church. The publication, Racial Loyalty, took an extremely anti-
semi tic, anti -non-white immigrant and anti-gay tone, using derogatory language and describing them as inferior or conspiracy oriented. The COTC feels that Christianity is an attempt by Jewish people to distract European whites away from white supremacy. It also took a very sympathetic tone towards Nazis, declaring Hitler’s birthday a religious holiday and referring to U.S. participation against Germany in the second world war as a “mistake.” In a letter to the magazine, a reader from Fairfax, Virginia, stated that “I would like to pledge my allegiance to the COTC with the confidence that Adolf Hitler’s dream of a Great Aryan Nation will some day become reality.” Throughout the publication, willingness to resort to violence was apparent. A poem entitled “A White Policeman on the Black Streets,” written by a Florida resident who claimed to be a former police officer, contained the text:
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“Yes, then I knew I would have to take this nigger’s life. I pulled out my gun and started shooting . .. I just smiled and watched this nigger slowly die.” Elsewhere, the publication stated that three members of the church werel’murdered by federal dogs [the FBI] ... Also killed was one federal agent for which we are thankful.” The magazine also had at least six letters from Canada as well as numerous Canadian updates. The paramilitary organization was founded by former Florida State legislater Ben Klassen in 1973. He left the _ _ _ _ organization stating icwas time to retire after turning 74. Neigh bour’s Network, however, had reason to believe there were possibly legally motivated factors involved. Imprint contacted Canadian based anti-racist organizations, butthey had little information on the COTC. The COTC, like the Front, tries to keep a low profile, focusing on recruiting skinheads to join its White Berets. The J group appears to view preparation for a world wide racial war as its top priority, using the slogan “Either Victory or Death.” According to a Toronto Sun article, The White Berets are “required to legally own a gun, be proficient in the martial arts, and gain experience in police communication methods.” Organization members included one Grant Gabriel, who died from natural causes during a white supremacist training exercise. Racial Loyalty paid tribute to him with a quote from Adolf Hitler.
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Full-fledged environmental engineering has finally arrived at the University of Waterloo. Earlier this month, UW’s Senate approved a degree program in environmental engineering within the engineeringfaculty, one that will lead to the same Bachelor of Applied Science degree earned by students in that faculty now. Up to 70 students could be enrolled in the program next September, 30 in control and process engineering through the chemical engineering department and 20 each in waste treatment and management and water and soil quality offered by civil engineering. The new program will be offered without increasing the total number of students admitted to engineering, according to Professor Gerry Schneider, associate dean of engineering (undergraduate studies). Schneider says that there is a tremendous need for the skills in environmental engineering and these will only “mushroom with increased environmental concern and with new legislation and regulations coming into effect,” he said. The province has approved the program tentatively, but also must allow the engineering faculty to re-allocate the necessary Basic Income Units
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(BIUs) within the chemical and civil departments to ~!low the change. The Ministry of Colleges and University’s approval must come by August I, Schneider said. The BIU is thr: unit used by the MCU to measure how much funding it advances to individual institutions. “We had a lot of student demand and inquiries about environmental engineering,” Schneider said. “There were also industry inquiries about whether we had graduates in this drscipline.” Also, the faculty used a report on projected manpower requirements produced by the Assocation of Professional Engineers of Ontario (APEO). A I989 proposal had called for an increase in net admissions to accommodate a starting enrolment of 40 students, but recent years’ cutbacks made that impossible within present corridor funding. These cutbacks also mean that for the foreseeable future the program will be offered through the chemical and civil departments, and that there will be no formal environmental engineering department. The program will benefit from the proposed environmental science and bioengineering building, a major goal in the current Campaign W$terloo, Schneider said.
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im! Campbell has, of late, come under media fire for cleaning her governmental house a bit too much (with a new downsized cabinet and ministerial rearrangments) considering her term of office will likely end on October 25, 1993, the rumoured election date. The basis for this criticism has been that, as PM, she has not been elected by the nation and thus has no mandate to make those changes, Well, I’d say that she shouldn’t have made those changes because there should be no such thing as an electoral mandate. A common conception held by politicians everywhere is the notion that once they are elected to parliament or congress or wherever, they are free to make any decisions necessary for their constitue& Thus, the idea of - representative government permeates our political system, giving politicians the notion that they “represent” their electorate. This is where our system lets us down; whenever our elected officials feel that they are charged with the responsibility to make political decisions they can do whatever they choose, regardless of how the majority or any of their constituents actually feel about the issue. While the idea of representative government has been embraced widely, its sister concept of “towing the party Ii&” has generalfy been criticized. However, because representative government goes hand-inhand with political parties (citizen’s groups), and thus with caucus discipline, the two cannot be dealt with individually. If we were to consider criiicizing Waterloo’s MP Walter McLean for ignoring us and “towing the party line,” we must also consider why he feels he can rightly ignore us. He can ignore us because he represents us; his vote in parliament signifies our entire riding’s consent to whatever the party line is regarding the issue at hand. So, if we cannot effectively criticize our MP for not voicing our concerns, we must criticize the system which allows him to ignore us: representative government. Now it is likely too large a task to create an entirely new system of government for Canada which would ensure every person the opportunity to voice their opinion on every issue, so we must, then, overhaul the present system. Simply put, the problem with representative government is that the distance it creates between the representor and representee allows the government: to be responsible to nobody. The ultimate freedom to decide lies with the representor because they need only consult their constituents enough to win a popularity contest every five years. Moreover, the government is, as a whole, more representative of the business world than any individual MP is of their riding. The answer, then, is to tie ourselves to our representatives in a more effective manner. If we had the right to recall our MPs, if we could choose not only our representatives but also their policy directives, if we could be guaranteed that political parties would be outlawed as major policy makers, then perhaps we could have more faith in our politicians. Perhaps then we would be able to believe that we are truly being “represented.” Perhaps then Kim! Campbell would not be able to spend tax money on rearranging her government for the sole purpose of looking good to the electorate - the one that will reject her parey and Walter McLean’s representation in Waterloo come Ottober.
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Friday, July 16, I993
Desexualized breasts? Impossible! The second annual “Walk-a-Breast” is coming up, and (one presumes) women across Ontario will be &king off their shirts to protest a silly and sexist law. The entire idea of charging a person with a criminal offence for simply walking in a park without a top on is something that I can’t really justify; that only half of the population would be charged is something even more asinine. Having said that, however, I do have a few reservations about the protest. Not about the concept of repealing an obviously sexist law -more about some of the rhetoric that has been flying around with the protests. Several times I’ve heard women (“wimyn”?) claim that these protests are also about “de-sexualising’i breasts, about making men realise that breasts are merely mammary glands for nourishing infants, not sexual organs. That is, to be honest, silly. Obviously breasts are for nourishing infants. I can’t really think ofany intelligent man or woman disagreeing with that- But “de-sexualising” them? Why? I won’t deny that I am one of the countless men who find women physically attractive, and one of the things that can attract me to a woman is her breasts: I like nice firm ones. Don’t get me wrong. Physically, eyes and a nice smile are my biggest turn-ons. However, breasts are pat-t of it, the same as a firm bum or nice legs or deep tan or whatever can attract some other guys. Or, to turn the tables, a muscular, washboard chest, or grey-blue eyes, or a dimpled chin attracts some girls to cert$n men. Every person has a concept of what makes a “perfect body,” what elements in a man or woman
me. It just catches my eye initially, as it does for most people. -fo s&e that breasts are not sexual, in that they play no direct part in the sexual act, is plainly stupid. They are erogenous zones for many people, can be a part of foreplay, and are as interesting as any other part of a woman. They just happen to be more obvious than a navel. To tell someone “sorry, that is n,o longer sexual in any way, leave it alone, and don’t lookat it any more” is presumptuous to the extreme, not to mention futile. It’s presumptuous, because it impiies that “we realise that you are simply scum, and only your most depraved instincts attractyou to breasts. Let us fix that for you.” There is no reason why
Keep your hands perception of your
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Breasts,
noses,
hair
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or not, our, muscle tone -- “commercialised” physical aspects of people attract other people. And frankly, if a woman doesn’t have a nice personality, the physical interest doesn’t last for
breasts sexual -- and physically attractive -- is strange. Is it okay for me to fantasise about a blond woman with big blue eyes, but not breasts? Where is the line to be drawn? Or do these women wish to advance our society to the state where physical attraction no longer has any influence -- a feminist version of the Victorian era, where no flesh of any sort is seen or mentioned or thought about by Decent People? There is a difference between acknowledging that women have as much right to remove their shirts in public as men do, and trying to have a part of female anatomy classified as Officially Non-Sexual. For the life of me I can’t see why the latter is a viable option at all. Some men have always found breasts attractive, and always will, the same as any other part of a woman. I think the only thing I haven’t
of my breasts
someone shouldn’t find breasts sexual, as opposed to, say, ear lobes. For a select group of selfappointed people (assuming that the majority of women and men do not agree on this issue) to dictate the sexual preferences of everyone is pure arrogance. It’s futile, because quite simply chanting that breasts should no longer turn people on isn’t likely to stop some people from being turned on by them -- especially if large numbers of women decide to march around topless. I do not support the masses of”spectators” (to be polite) at Walka-Breast rallies, but I do understand their mentality: if something that turns you on is going to be displayed apenty. why nut look? I do (I think) understand the desire ofwomen to prevent then&elves being seen as “objects” or walking exhibits for whoever finds them attractive. But to tell me that I can no longer consider
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an’s genitalia, the most “sexual” part of her body. Every other part of a woman is found attractive by some man or another, “sexual” or not. Regardless of how 1feel about breasts (pardon the pun), I won’t be one of the multitude of male oglers during the Walk-a-Breast protests. I realise that the protesters are fighting for a change to an archaic law, not giving out cheap thrills. However, I do hope that the women who remove their tops recognise that many men find breasts sexually stimulating, and always will. Claiming that bi-easu are “merely” for nourishment will not change that, and women can not expect that to change, any more than men could suddenly try to get women to stop finding muscled bodies attractive; it is simply part of human sexuality.
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OUSAoffersstuclents The decentralized structure of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) was designed to allow member institutions enough flexibility to adapt OUSA’s policies and procedures to their respective needs. Each member school is represented on the Steering Committee and at the OUSA Assembly. The Steering Committee is composed of one member of each school’s executive; this individual has one vote. The committee meets once every month to determine OUSA’s priorities and strategies. Members work to establish research groups at their respective institutions to facilitate the generation of policy positions. The OUSA Assembly meets three times a year, and each school’s repiesentation is weighted according to its population. Every institution has at least one vote and represen&ion is roughly one vote for every 3,000 full-time (or equivaihj students. The Assembly’s role is to address matters that originate in the Steering Committee. it is
here that the policies undertaken in the Committee are fleshed out and logistical plans are made for their implementation. The Assembly may also initiate policies that it feels are of sufficient import; it does not rely solely on the Steering Committee for direction. The Steering Committee and the Assembly are two critical components within OUSA’s structure. Over the last severa1 months, OUSA schools have been revising and fine-tuning these bodies so that they will function effective& together. More recently, OUSA members have focussed their attention on heightening awareness of OUsA at the provincial government level. On May I7 1993, provincial Minister of Education David Cooke requested that OUSA nominate a representative to the Ministry’s consultative committee. The committee was-formed to examine the changes made to student assistante last fail. This request indicates that the provincial government recognizes that OUSA represents a significant portion of undergraduate
Each school’s representation is weighted according to its population.
rep by pop students in Ontario, only six months after its ince tion. P OUSA’s position on funding for post-secondary education is welt-known. OUSA members are also working on a policy regarding quality of teaching in Ontario universities, which it hopes will be available in August or September. The Federation of Students* Board of Academic Affairs (BAA) has already undertaken a similar initiative at UW. B/V& findings may be used to supplement OUSA’s research.
This is the final in a series of OUSA articles. They were intended to inform students about a provincial organization that your UW Federation of Students joined in 1992. Thank you to all students who stopped by the Federation of Students offtce to offer criticisms or ask questions.
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(0 Muhammad): by whatever Name - translation
ALLAH by Sameh
is The
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Beautiful Names 2’ of part of the Qur’anic
GOD
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There is ONE and ONLY ONE GOD who is the Sovereign of the universe. GOD is the Creator of all human beings. HE is the GOD for the Christians, the Jews, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Atheists, and others. ‘GOD Almighty is not partial to HIS creatures with regard to material blessings (e.g. fresh-air, rain, and sun-shine). Why should HE be partial in regard to HIS spiritual blessings (the guidance of GOD)? HE has not been partial! There is no nation or language group on earth which does not know GOD by some Name. This knowledge was given by the Creator HIMSELF through the tips of HIS chosen Messengers,’ writes Ahmed Deedat in his booklet ‘What is HIS Name?‘. in Islam, we believe that you can call GOD by any Name as long as that Name is not contaminated and does not create a mental picture. For example, if 1were to tell you that the Name of GOD is Muhammad, you wilt have a mental picture of an Arab, a camel driver, ...etc. As soon as you have this mental picture, the proposed name is rejected in the house of Islam. “... There is NONE like unto HIM (GOD) ...” [42: I I]. GOD Almighty is absolutely unique in HIS Person and in HIS Attributes. in no way is HE to be compared, or comparable, with any other person or thing that we know or can imagine. in the Arabic language, the Personal Name of the ONE GOD is ALLAH. No one else can be called ALLAH; +I... Do you know of any who has the same Name as HE (ALLAH)?” [ i9:65]. The Name ALLAH has no plural nor gender. This
shows
Its
uniqueness
when
compared
with the word GOD which can be made plural (gods) or feminine (goddess). Even some Arabic-speaking Christians use the same Name when referring to GOD.
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“In the Hebrew uewish) Scriptures, the combination YHWHIELOHIM has been consistentlytranslated in the English Bible as ‘LORD GOD’. YHWH or Yehova or Yahuwa all mean the very same thing. ‘Ya’ is a vocative and an exclamatory particle, meaning‘Oh!‘and ‘Huwa’ means ‘HE’. So instead of YHWH ELOHIM, we now have Oh HE! ELOHIM. The sufix ‘IM’ of the word ‘ELOHlM’ is a plural of respect in Hebrew. ‘EL’, ‘ELOH’, ‘ELAH’, or ‘ALAH’ stands for the same name ‘God’. This leads to that the proper translation of YHWH ELOHlM should be ‘Oh HE! ALAH’. How far was this translation from the Qur’anic verse: ‘.... HE is ALLAH, The ONE and ONLY” [I 12: I J, I ask you dear reader?” writes Muslim scholar Ahmed Deedat in his booklet on the name of ALLAH. Dedat also adds, “Now, let us go to the last book of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation - chapter 19; we are informed there that John the disciple of Jesus, saw a vision, in which he heard the angels in heaven singing, Aiieiuya, Alleluya. What is ALLE-LU-YA? ‘YA as you know by now means ‘OH!’ and in Hebrew, it should be at the beginning. Let us repeat the above words of praise as a Jew, ALLE-LU-YA will be YA-ALLE-LU. For an Arab, it wilt be YA-ALLA-HU: meaning, ‘OH ALLAH!” For a Muslim, it is necessary to believe in the Oneness of GOD. But this belief alone is not enough. One must acknowledge the fact that it is GOD alone who deserves to be worshiped, and thus abstains from worshiping any other diety. For your FREE copy of Ahmed Deedat’s booklet, please call 725-8779 or drop by room CC I IO any Friday between I :45 p.m. and 2: I 5 p.m. The Qur’un Speaks is presented by the UW Muslim Study Group. Sameh E R&on is c7 PhD cundidute in electrical and computer engineering. The views expressed in this column are those ofthe author and do not neccessarily represent those of every met-nber of the UW Muslim Study Group or those of Imprint’s staff or editorid board.
Liberation Kings Other Things
and
There is an all-too-common belief amongst university students that the lives of good upstanding middle-class citizens in North America reflect the values contained in the Christian scriptures. There exists a perception (with good reason) that the message of the Christian tradition is the same as or similar to the political and religious message of those like the eversmiling evangeiicals on shows like IO0 Huntley Street who wish to keep “God” in our Constitution, or worse, Americans like Jerry Faiwell and his militaristic gang in the Moral Majority. I believe that at the heart of the biblical tradition there exists a call for us to radically transform the existing power structures we live under by asking the question, “Whose authority does this structure have anyway?” in the scriptures we find struggles going on between different spiritual forces - we may call these the Holy and the Demonic for our purposes here. There is a war of sorts being waged between these forces for the people’s devotion; it is a battle for our human soul. The biblical writers present this battle using the symbol of God versus any of God’s adversaries,
they have none. These gods are our traditional authority figures (parents, teachers, police) who we are expected to respect because of the position granted to them by somebody other than ourselves. These authorities go unquestioned today as we have lost our sense of an ultimate authority (ie, God) that transcends all earthly authorities, on the right or left of the political spectrum. if we return to the biblical picture, I think we have a starting point to begin questioning the authority of somebody with a badge or a PhD. Jesus is put before Pontius Pilate, the prosecutor, for questioning as to who he is and what he is doing with respect to the power in Rome. When accused of making himself a King and equal to Caesar, Jesus responds, “My kingdom does not belong to this world.” The effect of this saying is that Jesus refuses to accept the entire worldview on which the authority of an earthly King is built. instead he follows the authority that lives within his own heart-the authority of God that frees him from the world’s ways and tells him all people are to be loved as all are born Essentially equal (aithough possibly not Existentially equal). if ever put into practice, the message of Christianity would radically transform our own lives and how we view authority figures in our society today. Next time a police officer pulls you over, or a Prof. gives you a D-, put on a white robe and beard and ask them if they truly do have the power to release or crucify you. Then have a good belly laugh, knowing you are
which
on
“Do you not know that I have the power to release you and the power to crucify you?” - Pontius Pilate to Jesus
by
Ken
are
Cdg
either
fafse/other
gods
such
as
BaaI
or Moloch, or Satan (a symbol for humanity’s rebellion against God). Today we have our own false gods who claim power over our lives, where in reality
your
way
to
freedom.
The views expressed in this column are those ofthe author and do not necessariIy represent those of every member ofthe UW Student Christion Movement or those of Imprint’s staf or editofiul board.
Friday, July t 6, 1993, Imprint
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-- Reduce, re-use, re-educate -by Dave Imprint
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Everybody knows we have a garbage crisis. It’s a matter of opinion how serious it is, but no matter how serious it is there’s no reason why we can’t address the problem. One part of the waste stream we can start with is packaging. About 40% of our garbage is packaging. After we throw out packages they fill up landfills, produce toxic substances when incinerated, litter the streets, and kill animals who ingest them. Packaging serves two basic purposes: to protect the product, and to advertise ttte product. We must attempt to fulfill these purposes while solving the above problems. Recycling is one way of alleviating the problems with packaging. Steel, glass, aluminum, cardboard, paper, and some plastics are currently recycled with varying degrees of success. However, present recycling programs affect a maximum of only 9% of all packaging. Recycling has become big business; it is beneficial, but we need to remember that reusing and reducing are even better. There are several problems with recycling. It’s difficult to recycle packages consisting of more than one material. The supply of some recycled materials can’t keep up with the demand, while other materials sit around waiting for someone to use them. Although recycling saves energy, water, and waste, the recycling processes also produce
some waste. If a use for this waste were found, recycling would be even more valuable. Plastics are being touted as a panacea for our packaging problems. Plastics are lightweight and take up less space than other materials. Biodegradable plastic is useless; it doesn’t break down
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produced. They could work in the areas of reusing or recycling. People who buy products have power. If we form buyer’s groups+ we can better make use of this power to influence both industry and government. Buyer’s groups discuss issues of local importance, and network with other groups to discuss larger topics. Sellers see the group as an important client, whereas all the members individually would not be as important. The first step in working for any kind of change is educating ourselves. We can best do this in a forum like a buyer’s group. There are a plethora of products on the market than claim to be environmentally friendly. Buyer’s groups can determine which ones are truly better and inform their members. Buyer’s groups can also distribute information about companies’ policies with respect to different social issues. Government listens to large groups of people. We should force government to stop subsidizing the extraction of virgin materials (for example, in mining and logging). The environmental costs of extracting virgin materials should be included in their prices. Government should be purchasingenvironmentallyfriendly products when it spends our money. The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) is a committee of environment ministers from the federal, provincial, and territorial levels. It produced the Canadian Gode of Preferred Pockoging Practices in I99 I. This document is a guide for designing and selecting new packaging, emphasizing the three R’s It states worthwhile objectives, and methods for achieving these objectives. Whether these suggestions are followed by industry is the question. Last year the CCME undertook a consumer study in I2 cities across Canada. People in shopping malls were asked to fill out cards and cite examples of good or bad packaging. They
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The river is lost in spray as the deck disappears below a wave and the canoeist braces to avoid capsizing in the icy waters. Sound like fun! Then the Outers Club is for you. Whitewater canoeing is but one of the activities you can get involved in with the Outers Club* The Outer-s Club provides its members with the opportunity to participate in a variety of outdoor activities, such as canoeing, kayaking, hiking, and cycling. As a member of the club, you have access to two valuable resources: our equipment room, which has everything you need for an outing at really low rental rates, and our weekly meetings, which give members the opportunity to meet people with similar interests, and to organize and participate in trips. Our equipment room is in PAC 20 IO and is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30-5:30 p.m. We have six canoes, nine kayaks, paddles, lifejackets, tents, sleeping bags, stoves, cookware . . . and our rental rates are the cheapest you will find anywhere. For example, to rent a canoe for a day iosts only $7.00, and a pack only $3.OO! While our equipment room can provide everything you need for your own trip, an equally important function of the Outers Club is to provide a meeting place for people interested in all sorts of outdoor activities. The Club meets Monday nights at 7:00 p.m. in CC 138. At our meetings, activities being planned by out members are announced, and sign-up sheets are circulated so that all those interested in an outing can participate. This is a great way to meet new people, especially if you are new on campus. Experienced members offer guidance to new members in planning and organizing trips. For the fall term, we will be offering workshops on planning and leading canoeing and hiking trips. We will also be having a workshop this term on baking bread in the wilderness. This term has been a very active one for the Outers Club, facilitated in a large part by the excellent weather we are experiencing this year. Membet-s have been organizing activities for almost every weekend in the term.
portages are rocky and quite difficult, but it is necessary to portage to get away from the larger lakes and cottages.
Day Hikes -- This term, we have had several day hikes. At Rattlesnake Point, near Milton, 24 members of the club enjoyed the view atop the Niagara Escarpment. Schneider’s farm is close to campus’ at a distance of seven km, and offers a great get away for sunny afternoons. Below Niagara Falls, hiking trails give a closeup of the raging waters of the Niagara River. Cycling
Canoing activities
Things are winding down for Campus Recreation, League playoffs are under way and most programs are ending this week. As such, everyone is busy with final reports and stats. in the next issue of Imprint, we will have some of the final reports from leagues and programs.
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The final Campus Recreation Advisory Council meeting will be Wednesday, July 2 I at 4:45 p.m. in the Athli?tic Office, room 2045. Topics for discussion will include the use of helmets for the co-ret leaguesat Columbia Icef.eids. There are some safety issues concerning the helmets not being properly fitted for each individual and not being properly checked for damages and/or missing or loose screws. Health issues concerning the hel-
is just one organized
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Canoeing
the Grand River -- In the early season, when the water is high, the G t-and River is a good place to go to warm up those paddling muscles. There were two day trips on the Grand River this season; one from inverhaugh to Conestogo in late April, and another from Cambridge to Paris in early May. In both of these areas, the river meanders through farmlands and scenic bushland. The Cambridge-Paris section is especially scenic, as it transverses an almost untouched section of the Carolinian forest. After mid-May, the water levels in the upper sections of the Grand River are too low for canoeing, although sections downstream from Cambridge are navigable but shallow. Algonquin
Park Canoe Trip -- Our first canoe/camping trip of the season was a five day trip in Algonquin Park on the Victoria Day long weekend. Two groups from the Outers Club, one of eight and one of nine people, put in at Rain Lake on the West side ofAlgonquin Park. in late May, the water is a bit cool for swimming, but fortunately precedes the worst of blackfly scourge. Magnetawan Whitewater Canoe Workshop -- One of our most popuiar activities
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Ret mets not being properly dried between games will also be discussed. Recommendations will also be discussed regarding improvements to the Campus Recreation Program. Come out and let us know how you feel. Refreshments will be provided. Ail are welcome to attend.
Fitness
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Just as a reminder, there is an open fitness class on TuesdayJuly 27 in Studio I from I I :3O a.m. - I :30 p*m. Ail are welcome and all levels of fitness will be accommodated. This class will include a warm-up, cardio aerobics, country line dancing, lower and upper body muscle conditioning, and a funky house cool down. Don’t forget, fitness classes will be offered during exams. These classes are free and are offered three times per day. Check the schedule in the PAC and see which ones fit into your schedule!
-- The Waterloo area provides excellent cycling routes. Day trips have gone to Elmira, New Hamburg, and Cambridge via Pusiinch Lake.
wilderness Club.
Kayaking
whitewater canoeing. A group of eight members of the Outers Club went on a whitewater weekend with Canadian Wilderness Trips, an affiliate of Travel Cuts, on the Magnetawan River. The first day consisted of instruction on white water paddling techniques and practice on a small class Ii rapid, and the second day we were on to the bigger stuff. Since, there have been three whitewater outings in the Elora Gorge. Lion’s
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-- The activities
Sessions -- Throughout this term, we have been having biweekly kayaking sessions in the pool on Tuesday afternoons. Our kayaking representative is present at each session to help people out with their technique.
Barbecues
-- On campus, the Outers Club also has social events such as BBQs, Bonfires, and parties at the Grad House.
This term, we have had two BBQs at Columbia Lake. We bring out a few canoes for a relaxing evening paddle on Columbia Lake, followed by a bonfire and marshmallow roasting. Our next BBQ will be on July 23, at 6100 p.m. All of the trips announced at our weekly meetings are organized by individual members, so we do not have a set program at the beginning of the term; the trips organized depend on the interests of the members. We encourage ail of our members to participate in the organization and planning of trips. What is to be gained as a member of the Outers Club is not only the pleasure of participating in a variety of activities, but also to profit from the experience of organizing and leading trips. What we hope to achieve is to introduce people to the skill of planning and organizing trips so that they will feel confident planning their own trips as a member of the club and in the years to come. We hope that becoming a member of the Outers Club will provide you with a leadership experience that will be of life-long benefit. photos
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the Outers Club depend heavily upon the interests of the members, and this summer most of the interest has been in canoeing rather than hiking. Our-first backpacking trip was in mid-June on the Bruce Trail in the Lion’s Head area. The scenery there is spectacular, as you hike along the cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment and enjoy the view looking out over Georgian Bay. We learned here that raccoons enjoy spicy salsa sauce just as much (or maybe more) than the hikers do. Be careful to hang your food there; raccoons are notoriously clever.
Temagami Wilderness Trip -- The most recent Outers Club canoe trip was to the Temagami Wilderness Area, where one can enjoy both flatwater and whitewater canoeing. The fishing in this area is excellent. Some of the
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Napoleon Blownaparte, Crasshopper,and Pot Belly Volcano Club, Kitchener ).~ly 8, I993
by Dave Imprint
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What if they gave a war and nobody came? That question raised it’s subversive little head a couple of Monday’s ago in downtown Kitchener’s Volcano Club. It wasn’t a war however, or even so little as a friendly saw-off that prompted the query, but rather a dizzying sense of shame felt for a bunch of bands playing to a crowd almost smaller in number than the performers themselves. The ambitious line-up saw three mostly-obscure underground Canadian power-trios: local punk-corz icons Napoleon Blownapart t; NORML poster-kids Grasshoppnr, from Toronto; and heretofore conlpletely unknown punklgrungel slackmotherlwhatevers Pot Btblly,
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who’d come all the way from St. Johns, Newfoundland just for this show. Mmhmm. Napoleon Blownaparte were the preliminary act. They ripped into their set with an energy and finesse that totally defied their most recent inactivity. It was their first live performance since last Christmas’ Phil’s gig (where they appeared under the pseudonym Hoop) and probably their ftrst under the Napoleon banner in over a year. Apparently one of their members, bassistJeff Appel, has been attending school up north, thus shelving for a time one of this nation’s greatest unrecognized natural resources. Some’11 think I’m just playing the smart-ass with that last comment, but I still vividly recall my virginal Blownaparte experience (a benefit show upstairs at the Kent Hotel nearly a year-and-a-half ago) and leaving afterward convinced that should 1 ever find myself in possession of their talents, I’d be chucking the rest of my life away and concentrating on nothing but rawk. Characteristically indebted to Vancouver’s seminal cerebral punkers NoMeansNo, Napoleon played a healthy ten-track set of adrenalinepumped, full-throttle hardcore that was tight, melodic, humourous and often surprisingly funky. The vocals were divied-up evenly between Appel and guitarist Mark Coppeser, while drummer jim Burek (that’s enough gratuitous nume-dfopping for now) provided a gravity that held everything together, forcing Napoleon to travel where far too many bands these days fear to tread: forward. If it’d been Napoleon’s unspoken intention to lay down an amphetamine-like challenge, it seemed beyond Toronto’s Grass hopper to find the necessary motor-skills with which to respond. The miniscule crowd that’d been on hand for Blownaparte (mostly a small cabal of devoted groupies and CKMS stringers) quietly exited after the openers had finished, thereby leaving Grasshopper in a somewhat unenviable farcical predicament. The Grasshoppers reaction -- an
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Boy (leH) bows as Mark “The King” Coppeser stunning three-chord throne speech.
intermission of a completely insufferable duration -- posited hypotheses that Grasshopper were perhaps too busy puffing bags of weed. It’s not an unrealistic expectation (given their unconcealed prolegalization stance and recordings at the Bottle Toke Studios ) but when Grasshopper finally appeared they seemed as though they’d smoked not just bags, but probably pounds, such was their startlingly spaced-out stage paralysis. I’d bought that proposal, of course, on sheer speculation. Nevertheless, I’ve seen the band previously and know for a fact how extraordinary they can be under differing circumstances. All that remained of their Yolcano show was the suspenseful myriad of ways the band would ridiculously envelope themselves. Try drumkits collapsing. Microphones crashing. Pedal boards disintegrating. And a beautifully fucked-up leadsinger slobbering empty dedications overtop a wall of feedback to “all the fishes in the tank, ‘cuz the rest of you humans are all just a bunch of squids.” Repeated numerously, I didn’t bother to ask just what, precisely, he meant by it. It didn’t exactly make for great mu-
Holly Cole Trio WV3 Humanities Theatre Thursday, July 8
by Peter Imprint
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‘Every day wil! be like u holiday when my baby, when my buby comes home.” The japanese may love Holly Cole, but she loves Waterloo, so much so that she made her Humanities Theatre gig the first after returning from the Land of the Rising Sun. And the Cole Trio makes every one
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day. With a casual and unpretentious breathlessness, Cole sang an eclectic collection of pop and jazz classics, rendering them sultry, ominous, or romantic, or somehow all three at once.
Meanwhile, the other two thirds of the Trio, David Piltch on bass violin and Aaron Davis on piano, provided an accomplished counterpoint to her unique vocal stylings. The only variation in the lineup
last Thursday came during songs from their brilliant new LP, Don’t Smoke in Bed, when a percussionistfrom Manteca joined them on stage. Always one for playful games with her accompaniests, Coie added a story
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sic, but the laughs sure came easily enough. lust blame it on Rio. Or Acapulco. Or a passage to Bangkok. The evening’s headliners were hard-driving Seattle-esque Newfries Pot Belly. Along with now-buzzing Hardship Post, Pot Belly appear intent on jockeying the Rock smack into the formidably-expanding Maritime scene’s sweepstakes. Touring on the strength of their I l-song release G/id, Pot Belly won over the remaining audience (by then less than a handful) with a truly astounding display of solid material and sheer blue-collar guts. Their attitude seemed to be one of playing as hard as they possibly could -- damned be the circumstances -- in the hopes of winning over just one patron. They succeeded, with the Kiss cover being a particularly nice, if obvious, touch. Should their Kitchener show be any indicator, they’ll be poised to make a noticable bridgehead to the mainland in the not-too-distant future. As with the other bands, it was too much of a shame that so few were there to even witness any of it.
about how her car began to burn on the Conestoga expressway because of some flammables in the trunk, incorporating this theme into the lyrics of “So and So.” The Trio performed most of the songs from the new CD, including “Don’t Let the Teardrops Rust Your I’ve Got Shining Heart, ” “Ev’rything Belongs to You,” “Get Out of Town,” “I Can See Clearly Now,” “Cry (If You Want To), ” “Que Sera Sera,” and “Blame It On My Youth.” Cole enthusiasts would recognize the rest of set, with familiar tune such as “Talk to Me Baby,” “If I Was a Bell,” “Girl Talk,““Smile,” “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” “Trust in Me,” “Calling You,” and one of her familiar closers “Bye Bye Blackbird.” Innovative banjo impressario Bela Fleck played an accomplished opening set, flanked by the Flecktones, Victor Lament on bass guitar and Futureman on his guitar-shaped electronic percussion machine.
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old faves and songs from their new LP, Diffiuh Loves (finally available domestically, despite being originally released last year), the band splendidly entertained a crowd consisting of largely hardcore fans. Even a Toronto celeb or two were on hand to make the show that much more memorable. Kate Fenner of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir joined the band for the new LP’s “Step In, Step Out,” which features shared vocals. Other new tracks performed included “Father’s Day,” ‘*Difficult Lovers, ” ‘*Telephone in Her Car,” “The Four Corners of the Earth,” and “Rambling Girl.” WPA handled their ballads beautifully, including “Sisters-of Mercy,” but they really rocked the house during their well-known and rollicking bar songs, especially “Under the Clocks,” “Industrial Town,” and “Sgt. Small.” Toronto regulars The Lowest of the Low showed why they have a reputation as a great live band with an inspired opening set. With a bunch of songs from last year’s indie hit Shakespeare My Butt, they drew almost as enthusiastic a response from the crowd as did the headliners.
Lee’s Palace, Toronto July 8, I993
by Peter Imprint
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“I brought three winter coats with me,” quipped Marcus Schintler on july 8 at Lee’s Palace. “And a big woolly jumper.” But Schintler and the rest of Australia’s Weddings Parties Anything arrived in the Great White North only to find the summer’s biggest heatwave so far. And when -WPA were finished with the drunken, pitching crowd, the Palace was like a jungle of sweat and enthusiasm. This is one band that does a good job of disappearing from the music press when they’re not visiting this area. Sure, they’re from a land far away; sure, they haven’t done much recording lately, but when I heard about this show I was amazed to discover that it had been about three years since I had heard a peep from them. This time lapse was quickly forgotten, though. With a perfect mix of
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When all is said and done, how does one approach the task of reviewing Edgefest, Day two? Does one st.a~t off by talking about the wee little riot which ended the concert? Does one talk about one’s own experience with fascist security and presume that somebody cares? Or should 1 just list the bands? The perennial problem of the little journalistic hack -- ttyin”g to make an essentially non-event sound like a Happening. And trying to do it well. All right, I’ll run through the bands in order of ascending importance. Firstoff was Ottawa’s Furnaceface, a band who -- although tight, good musicians -- were essentially of no consequence, and unless they get really memorable, will eventually get lost in the pantheon of humorous Canadian indie bands. In other words, no great loss. Next on the bill were the Judybats, whose cover of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators song “She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)” was the only song of theirs I knew. However, being a little Judybatty and probably a little popstar-struck stubborn, they didn’t even play it. Otherwise, the judybats were also essentially unmemorable. Following was Radiohead. Boy, you’ve never seen a more pretentious bunch of creeps playing. I can be pretentious! I can be a creep! So why aren’t I up on stage? I guess it’s aI1 a question of prettiness. I wish I were special. They’re too fucking special. Now, I have to say that Radiohead were not too bad, but would have been a lot better. if I hadn’t got the impression, later confirmed, that they were all a bunch of assholes. Finally, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin came on and were treated like royalty by
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member of one of the other bands, I’d have been sorely tempted to put my guitar back in its case, and never touch it again. The folks from CFNY would actually go on-stage before another band, say the Judybats, and announce
something like, “Okay. Ned’s will be on soon, but in the meanti”me, here’s the Judybats.” Was the enthusiasm for Ned’s justified? I’d say so. Being the kings of the Edgefest scene, they were graced with a darkened sky and used. it to produce an absolutely amazing lightshow (the Ned’s being fortunate enough to possess no less than nine Intellibeams, which are really expensive computer lighting systems). It was the first time in the night, I’d say, that a definite party atmosphere was created. Musically speaking, I have always thought that Ned’s were interesting. Two bass players does seem to be a pleasent enough gimmick. However, I have also always thought that too many of their songs sounded too similar, and that John, the lead singer says “cheers” and “filthy fuckers” too many times to really be taken seriously. But live, they rocked like proverbial pigs. After their phenomenally energetic show (Ned’s earned their applause, which is more than can be said for many bands that I see), they did their wee little ego booster, I mean encore. What is it with encores? They’re relics left over from the days of pigheaded opera singers like Enrico Caruso and I hate ‘em. Except for Ned’s encore. It was a whole lot of fun for all involved, except for Ontario Place security, the old fascists themselves. From a security point of view, the Forum is an incredibly poor design. It’s a really big, round stage, with fairly easy audience access all around. After a couple of brave warriors deftly hopped security t0 hug their favorite Neddy, there was suddenly a mass exodus of people from the stands, and even the grass beyond, onto the stage. Ned’s tried to keep playing, even as the stage around them was suddenly flooded with people, body-surfing right in front of the drummer, who, from his vantage point on the drum riser, was laughing his head off. Never has agood performance by a band so quickly turned into a royal kafuffle, If I remember anything, it’d be the end, with the ecstatic multitudes clamouring for their place under the arc-lights. As Pure once said, “it is, indeed, such a blast to be alive.”
mise between Osbourne and his doctors. The 43 year-old is no longer a young man and 250 or more shows a year have taken their toll. Plagued by an ankle injurythroughout the la& tour, Ozzy vowed that he would never play such a demanding schedule again. Live & Loud is Ozzy’s second live album (Speak of the Devil was released over a decade ago) and spans a great deal of his nine-album dis-
4-5 by Leanne Borho special to Imprint When I bought this album a few months ago, based solely on the appeal of their first single, “Colder Than You,” I somehow knew that The Waltons offering would rank right up there with the best Canadian works I’ve grown fond of over the years. Indeed, this proved to be the case: Lik (that’s “like,” not “lick”) My Trakter is a I2-track compilation ofacoustic, feel-good tunes complete with generous harmonies -features that have become trademarks of bands north of the 49th. On the sleeve of Lik My Trakter, for instance, Kim Deschamps -- a relatively recent addition to the ever-harmonizing Blue Rodeo -- is listed as contributing musician. Good choice.
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Besides “Colder Than You” and their most recent release”ln The Meantime” (both of which enjoy regular airplay on MuchMusic), other notable tracks include the environmentally-conscious “(Don’t Let It) Slide” and the upbeat (and my personal favourite) “I Could Care Less.” In “The Living Room,” lead-vocalist jason “Walton” Plumb demonstrates hisabilityto reach those high notes with an ease that sadly escapes the true vocal range of other artists that come to mind. The two slower tracks on the album also make for good listening, but if the crowds at the Sounds Of Summer were any indication, it’s the really foot-tapping tunes that will become the signature style of these Saskatchewan natives. All in all, through Uk My Trakter, The Waltons prove yet another example of the great musical quality this country has to offer.
4-5 by Rich Imprint
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Leading the list of this summer’s live concert releases is Ozzy Osbourne’s double disc release Live & Loud. The two-hour, 21 -track set is a greatest hits compilation, recorded during Ozzy’s “No More Tours” Tour last year. Live & Loud even includes a few tracks from his final concert on November I Sth, I992 in Costa Mesa, Californiawhere he reunited with Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, Tony lommi, and Bill Ward. Was “No More Tours” john Osbourne’s final farewell to live audiences! His last concert ended with a fireworks display that read “I’ll be back.” Could his appearance with Black Sabbath ignite the return of the original Sabbath cast? Or, wili Ozzy’s phenomenal solo success, coupled with the boredom of sitting on his hands between studio albums, put him back on the road? The answer lies in a compros ballooned from forty minutes to sixty. But few records actually deserve an hour of your time. Filler
4-5 by Derek Imprint
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sheer length, The Guilt Trifi is clearly modelled on another famous solo debut: George Harrison’s I970 triple record All Things Must Pass. And at times -- with the _epigram “And ___ _ - God. created great whales” from the Book of Genesis, song titles like “Stubb’s Hallucination” anb “Swallow Up Jonah,” and again, in sheer encyclopedic length -- The Guilt Trip alludes to the novel Moby Dick. But Kramer’s real concern is with personal relations!Ips. Song titles do not shy away from words like “hate” and “love,” nor do they flinch at including proper names, as in “My Friend Daniel” (Daniel Johnston? I would like to think so). And yes, the dominating theme is guilt. Accusations and recriminations glide in and out of the
cography. The first disc kicks off with an intro which teases the crowd with b -ief instrumental samples of 022-y’s finest works. Finally, Ozzy appears with a thunderous rendition of “Paranoid”. Able to inspire live audiences like no other, Ozzy sends the masses into a frenzy throughout the recording. Five live samples of songs from his last studio album No More Tears appear on this effort including “I Don’t Want To Change The World”, “Desire’*, and “Road To Nowhere”. The two most popular singles from that album *‘Mama I’m Coming Home” and the title track st.rengthen this already meaty live offering. Earlier epics include “Suicide Solution”, “War Pigs”, “I Don’t Know”, and the eery “Bark At The Moon”. Ferocious solo performances by axeman Zakk Wilde and drummer Randy Castillo are thrown in to give that well-rounded ‘live’ taste to it. The most superior tracks by far are “Mr. Crowley,” “Goodbye To Romance, *’ “Flying High Again,” and his signature tune “Crazy Train.” The Sabbath reunion songs “Black Sabbath” and “Changes” are classic treasures, the latter of which has received a great deal of radio airplay. Overall, this compilation (perhaps Ozzy’s last release) is a high-quality collector’s gem and a must for the followers of one of the greatest hardrock soloists of our time. lyrics, and even a satiric title like “The Well Hung jury” alludes to Kramer’s guilt trip. Like All Things Must fuss, The Guilt Trip is the sound of someone known primarily for his work with others stepping into the spotlight. Kramer’s cred as a collaborator is huge: in Bongwater his music helped articulate Ann Magnuson’s rantings, and the number of worthy acts he’s produced, like Gal&e 500 and Alice Donut, is too immense to calculate. Here. though, Kramer restricts himself to two sidemen, writing all the songs, doing all the vocals and playing most of the instruments himself. (In this he differs from Harrison, who still relied on a host of his famous friends for AI1 Things Must Pass.) The Guilt rrip ‘s music is, like its lyrics, often relentlessly moody and introspective* The loud and immediate songs are far outnumbered by the folky ballads and swirling mood pieces: most of The Guilt Trip is undisguised “head music” and demands consistent attention and patience from the listener. Amazingly, though, the album never once becomes boring or self-indulgent. Kramer consistently displays astounding
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an evil techno rut, and the middle is filled with the sort of grumpiness I haven’t heard since Johnny Rotten changed his name. Not that it’s a terribly urgent kind of anger, though, because compared to fellow industrial grumps Front Line Assembly and Skinny Puppy, one could well label this new album “E-Z listening industrial.” Regardlessless, it’ll probably still make you angry, or insane, should you ever have to listen to it for twenty-seven hours straight.
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I’ve been listening to the new Front 242 album now for the past 27 hours straight, so I’m feeling a little negative. No, it’s not just my usual irritable self that’s writing this review, it’s something much darker, and in& nitely more evil. It’s the inevitability of getting too involved in 242’s overall mood. And probably the effect Front 242 prefers that I have. They actually praise evil right in the title. Up Evil. So it is. And it turns me into an angry young man. When I’m angry, I tend to feel that many things are terrible, and that the world is essentially evil. Which is exactly what Front 242 want me to believe, making me feel terrible because I’ve become a putz at the hands of a completely inoonsequential industrial rock band. Oh, 242, you are crafty, aren’t you? And infinitely wiser than your buying public. Heck, you even managed to slip in a naughty swear word on the cover. Gosh, that’s one hell of a shock, seeing it written in CODE on the back of the album. And here I was thinking that 06:2 I :03: 1 I on the back were only numbers, since a band purporting to be cutting edge wouldn’t ever fear using a word like “fuck,” would they? Thus, if you want to get technical about it (sorry), the album is called Fuck Up Evil. What does that mean? That it’s evil to fuck up? or that one should try and fuck up all that is evil? This in itself is kind of evil. Which in turn is a huge mind-fuck. I’m angry now. But it’s what this music is all about. Every song on the album has a oneword title, each one an angry paean like “Flag, ” “Fuel,” “Hymn,” or “Religion.” Granted they’ve been angry at topics such as religion before, but at least in “Welcome to Paradise,” they poked fun at religion rather than just grumping about it. It’s an angry, grumpy album. It starts in an evil techno rut, finishes in
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Bailter Space are probably & definitive Antipodean shoegazers, but they’re so obscure that hardly anyone has even the faintest idea they exist. A new deal with super-indie Matador should go a long way to rectifying this. If you could combine the moody minimalism of Joy Division with the tumultuous nerve of Sonic Youth, you might have a rather simplistic characterization of the Bailter Space. And, unless you absolutely hated either of those bands, you’d probably get a good stir listening to Robot World. The album picks up where last year’s stellar four=song EP, The Aim, left off. The power-trio lay down dense, stark melodies over indecipherable lyrics and a driving rhythm that sounds both automated and human. It’s very odd...one reviewer mentioned that they sound like a washing machine. Certainly, a quick listen to songs such as “Be On Time”, ” Get Lost” and “Fascination” make that hard to argue against, but what gorgeous washing machines!!! Should someone tell you that all shoegazing music sucks or that the only music from DownUnder that matters is of the typically jingly-jangly pop variety, throw Bailter Space under their noses and quietly watch ‘em squirm. And for those who love to travel at extremely high velocity, I can’t recom, mend either The Aim or Robot World anywhere-near highly enough.
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How do the dynamics of power change when a woman is placed in command in a traditional patriarchy? Can a woman reach the top of such a heap by emulating the men she sees around her? Or being tougher than them? No, we’re not talking about Kim Campbell’s appointment as Prime Minister, but rather Upstage Productions’ interpretation of William Shakespeare’s MocSeth, running this weekend at the Theatre of the Arts. You see, the genders of some rather central characters, including the Scottish king him(oops, her)self, have been reversed. MacBeth is a woman, her spouse is a man, and Banquo and Fleance also receive a sex change. At the core of this play is how blind ambition and the struggle against fate (and the hubris that accompanies that struggle) can lead only to a spiraling descent toward death. MacBeth, played compellingly by Lise Fortin, is convinced that she can defy the same forces which gave her power; she hates weakness, especially when exhibited by those around her, such as her spouse, played by Gareth Davies. Thus, the gender switch adds a much more interesting nuance. The rest of the cast does a fine job, especially Michelle Gauthier as Banquoand actor/director Dave Brown
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as Matcolm. The play is staged in a modern setting and makes plenty of use of the Theatre of the Arts’ perfectly suited design, with characters running willynilly up and down the aisles. But, at times, especially during scenes which involve just a couple of characters, the staging is not quite imaginative as the round theatre demands (ie,, important characters facing away from part of the audience for extended periods). Certainly, the most interesting part of this production is MacBeth being a woman with a male spouse. According to Upstage’s press release, this MacBeth is “not just a woman playing a man’s part but a woman being a woman with a woman’s ideas and perspectives.”
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But in Shakespeare+ as in political life, any woman playing the role of King of Scotland or Prime Minister of Canada must necessarily say the lines written for her. Although Fortin does an excellent job of demonstrating the initial horror of contemplating MacBeth’s rise to power through assassination, she and director Dave Brown still must contend with the raw material in the play. MacBeth must still be an aggressive, treacherous, power-hungry, arrogant boor to rise to power. The woman who is MacBeth must still emulate the patriarchy to fulfill her destiny. MocBeth runs tonight and tomorrow night at the Theatre of the Arts at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Admission is $6.00 for students and $8.00 for others.
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edited out Shaw’s closing drolleries. After all, we’ve just seen Joan’s transfixing, agonized face burn holes through rows upon rows of monitors. Though Shaw, initiated to theatre via public speaking, is always on the verge of becoming too wordy and remote, Munro’s full-blown sounds and images make Shaw’s argument all the more potent because all the more emotionally affecting. He adds a violent prologue in smoky, silhouetted pantomime, and continually jolts us out of complacency with lurid colours and angular, off-kilter compositions. (The set and lighting designs by Cameron Porteous and Robert Thomson are
mike, the tail end of her impassioned speech is lost. Actors aren’t even visible all the time -- they occasionally speak while walking off stage, or stand obscured by pillars. by Jennifer Epps Mary Haney’s Joan is magnificent. You woutdn’t want to invite this heroImprint stug ine over for dinner -- during her first scene she twitches and stammers as if The pleasantly dressed groups from the seniors’ bus tour don’t know (and this makes sense) she’d spent so much time with her voices she had no what to think. Have they taken a wrong idea how to converse with live people. turn and wound up at some newfangled, underground theatre in ToOver time Joan gains confidence, until she becomes almost a bully, but there’s ronto! What’s with the dissonant mustill that downturning of her mouth to sic, the shifting, tilting pillars, the btend of modern and period designs? Why is show she isn’t arrogant so much as stunned by everyone else’s stupidity a I 5th century peasant girl wearing an and cowardice. aviator jacket! And most The ensemble is welltroubling of all: who’s the directed: they often have joker who put all those perky, unusual blocking, TV screens on stage? and we can even see the It is only fitting that waiters eavesdropping. director Neil Munro Simon Bradbury as the should push the edges of whiney Dauphin, Peter the envelope in his renHutt as Joan’s macho dering of George 8ernard chum Dunois, and Shawls Suint~oun, the Shaw Michael Ball and Barry Festival’s premier producMacGregor (as the cortion this year -- both Joan ruptible Sishop of and G.B.S. were radicals Beauvais and the pious too. Munro’s eclectic apInquisitor, respectively) preach, which posits are all top-notch. Only VWV2 airplanes next to George Dawson’s inscrufluorescent ceiling %lights I .I. . , tablhty as the too-lopand early phones along “We now interrupt out regularly scheduled program mming..." pish Earl of Warwick and side the latest computers, the general carelessness lends Joan’s rebellion such regarding national accents detract. marred only by the long waits during timelessness that Shaw’s final, fanciful hint joon takes place on a raked scene changes.) Munro even borrows scene, a posthumous debate between triangular platform, under and around avant-garde effects from film to achieve the play’s characters. is not only unneca grey archway that keeps breaking and both realism and an enforced focus on essary but gratingly anticlimactic. If twisting into new contortions. Thus one character or one moment under Munro had been really brave, and realdoes Munro’s vision drive home what the wing of a plane, Earl and Bishop plot ized how relevant he’d made her story, a chillingly precarious world it is if “a Joan’s doom, but another craft’s engine he might have ended the play on the Christ {must} be burned in every age to drowns crut some of their dialogue; amoral Earl of Warwick’s fireside eusave those who have no imagination.” when guards pull Joan away from the logy, “The last of her? I wonder,” and
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