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Campus Centre addition finally opens! Tasha James Imprint

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he new Campus Ccntre is finally open. About twice the size of the of the old one, it has a lot more to offer to the university community. Students are paying for $5.5 million dollars of the $6.6 million project, which took a total of20 months

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He spoke of how the selflessness of the students made the addition possible, and of how the actions of students here at UW are”a stinging rebuttal” to those who accuse students of being members of the “ ‘me’ generation.” “Let the festival of sound and light begin,” said Downey. The last speaker was

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aren Downie was the victim of a brutal assault on ebruary 18. Her lefi arm was broken and her left eye badly injured when one of the several men who broke into her boyftiends apartment hit her with a baseball bat (seelmprint, March 3, 1995). As of March 3, one suspect had been arrested, but

now,

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fortunstety,

the case seems

much wrapped up. Initially, Police arrested one man who was identified by Downie’s boyfriend, Tolly Henderson, who was also assaulted but escaped with only

minor injuries. That suspect, faced with multiple charges, gave police the name of Adam Battler, who was subsequently arrested. According to Downie, Battler confessed completely to the police after his arrest. Battler has now been charged with Aggravated Assault, Breaking and Entering, and Assault with a Weapon, as he was the attacker with the baseball bat. The maxiITIUM penalty for Aggravated Assault is fourteen years. “The police told me that the reason he had a bat is that two weeks earlier he broke his hand in a fist fight,” said Downie. Battler has in turn given the

this building is about, or about the dramatic changes that have taken place,” indicated Sproule. He is very concered about fhe lack of information in the comlmunity about the revamped Campus Centrc, and thinks that it will be a challenge to infoml students. Dewhurst though, was very happy about the opening. “It’s open, it’s here, that’s the most important thing.”

students.

for prizes. “It was like a mosh pit.” Fortunately, no one was injured in the confUsion, and while dozens mobbed the Feds and Turnkeys giving out the prizes, many others enjoyed the free cupcakes being handed out. The new Centre offers many new services to the university community and has revamped the services that had been formerly of-

Arrests made Dovtmie Assault

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McKay, Awey Peters, Doane Raymond, Edward Richards, Jeff Robertson, A. Sherali, Annick Streicher, Patricia Woolcott, National Research Council and A Group of Peace and Conflict Studies Students.

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P e t e r Hopkins, the AssoDowney (far ciate Provost of Student Affairs spoke first at the ceremony, mentioning how 44,000 square feet has been added to the original 55,OO square feet. Stephen Codrington, President of the Federation of Students, spoke next. He told ofhow, when the original Campus Centre opened on April 4, 1968, the relationship between students and the Administration was a lot more

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fered to make them more attractive and (accessible. Codrington feels sure that the new Campus Centre wii I help student life on campus, because it is a “central focus for the campus.... There are that many mlorc reasons why students sholuld stop by.” He added that more students using the Campus Centre will create a more informed campus, because they will become aware of the facilities and groups in

ceremony”’ took place Monday, with speeches, rib’ bon cutting, the

Dorina Belu, Steve Boyd, Ken Bryson, Stephen Codrington, Jeff Couckuyt and

MacDonald,

Christine Dewhurst, Vice-President Operations and Finance. She thanked the many people who had contributed to the building, and gave the signal to release 1000 balloons containing prizes from the ceiling, causing a chaotic end to the ceremony. “I haven’t seen bedlam like that in a while,” said one enthusiastic participant in the scramble

fortuate that it didn’t open last September,” commented Federation of Students Presi-

Board of Directors President Vice President Secreataryflreasurer

adversarial, with both groups distributing leaflets across campus slandering each other, and at one point, students actually chaining themselves to furniture in the old CC. “James Bond would have had a fiefd day,” he said. But now, “the tactics have matured.” UW President, James Downey spoke after Codrington.

Police tiaother name: Paul McGraw, who is “apparently a neoNazi,” says Downie. Police confirmed this, saying “Yes, that’s’ what we understand.” There were 3 warrants out for McGraw’s arrest previous to the one issued in connection with Downie’s assault. These are “all assault-related” also, according to Detective Acheson of Waterloo Regional Police, one of the officers assigned to the Downie case. McGraw was arrested last friday, in Toronto, for an offense he had committed there. Dt. Acheson did not know what he had been arrested for, but he told Imprint that McGraw was currently in the Don Jail. “He’s in custody,

in case that’s

the important thing.” In connection with the Downie case, McGraw faces one charge of Break and Enter to Com,mit Assault, and one count of “Disguise with Intent” (to commit a felony). Docvnie is still healing, both mentally and physically, from the attack. Her cast came off on March 23, and her vision is “slOwly coming back.” Downie says her doctors do not expect any permanent damage to her eye. Also, the nightmares she used to have every night after the attack are not as the frequent any more. Adam Battler will have a prehminary hearing on April 15.

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wo Mexican activists are touring Ontario and Quebec to tell of their first hand cxpericnces about the current uprisings in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. The Chiapas insurrection began on New Year’s Day of 1994, but since February 1995 the events have worsened. The Mexican Army has been in Chiapas since the uprisings began, but on February 9, they moved into the Zapatista rebel territory. Since then, there have been a significant number of arrests, harassments, and unexplained disappearances. The army has driven the Zapatistas into the mountains, forcing them to abandon their villages. “They have been in the mountains for over three weeks now with little or no food or water. They are beginning to die from hunger, starvation and sickness brought on by drinking parasite-infested water in the mountains,” according to Brent Devos, an International Development and Spanish student at the University of Guelph, who recently returned from Chiapas. The actions of the Mexican government have instigated vast protest and unrest among the civilians. For example, student protests in Mexico City became so overwhelming, that on February 12

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ary 20, a people’s caravan march towards Mexico City began demanding that the army troops back out of Chiapas and begin new nego-

of Chiapas tiations. Efrain Valdemar Lopez and Citlali Ramirez Tapia are the two activists from Mexico who will be sharing their insights and experiences in Mexico with the Canadian public. Ramirez Tapia is from the state of Morelos, and has been working extensively with the Block of Proletariat Forces (BPF) since its conception a year ago. The BPF is a national umbrella organization which integrates all human rights and social justice issues in Mexico. Ramirez Tapia’s specific interests lie in women’s organizations and natural medicine. She works extensively with school teachers, as well as others such as agricultural peasants, workers and home-makers to integrate women’s issues into the struggle for social change in the Mexican society. Although Ramirez Tapia is not from Chiapas, she identifies with the struggle there and says that “all of Mexico is a Chiapas.” “The Mexican government does not have the political willingness to change, because they know it is a general problem in Mexico, not just Chiapas. And even if they had the willingness, they do not have the economic capacity,” reflected Valdemar Lopez of his experiences, in a meeting last Sunday. Valdemar Lopez is a Tzotzil Mayan who represents the Prole-

tarian Organization for Emiliano Zapata (OPE,Z). OPEZ has been working for 20 years to improve the standard ofliving for Chiapans, and since the uprisings their role as lcaders has become even more important. OPEZ have been especially activeinreclaiminglandforlandless agricultural peasants, and then providing them with the necessary equipment to work that land. OPEZ is working on “the very fundamental issue of human rights,” illustrated Valdernar Lopez. OPEZ is one of the strongest organizations in the Block ofProletariat Forces. The support of OPEZ has been greater in Canada than in any other country, according to Valdemar Lopez. This is Valdemar Lopez’s second educational tour in Canada. He spent several weeks here during tlhe summer of 1994. The speaking tour has been organized by the Mexico Solidarity Network, which formally began in July 1994, as a result of a common desire of small groups all over Ontario (and Montreal) to unite into a stronger body. The Kitchener/Waterloo coffee house is being held tonight, Friday, March 3 1, at the Trinity United Church at 7:OO. The event will include craftsand Latin American food sales, as well as music, not to mention the insight from Valdemar Lopez and Ramirez Tapia.

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Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC). AKFC is a non-profit development agency which supports projects in Asia and Africa that assist the poor regardless of race, religion or political persuasion. The Foundation focuses on education, primary health care, rural development, income generation, and the special problems faced by women and children. Emphasis is placed on effective management and innovation. In this way, the Foundation attempts to find solutions to development problems common to people in many parts of the world. Each year in Canada, AKFC holds the Partnership Walk. Last year marked the tenth anniversary of the Walk. And this year, the Walk will be held on May 28, in 11 cities from Halifax to Victoria. Since its inception in 1985, the Walk has

The Foundation focuses on education, primary health care, rural development, income generation, and the special problems faced by women and children. Emphasis is placed on effective management and innuvation. level, involving small-scale activities that are initiated and carried out by the villagers themselves. The people of the developing world are exceptionally creative, resilient and hard working -- they have to be in order to survive. Given the smallest opportunity to improve their lives, they achieve amazing results. Canadians can be justly proud of these development success stories. Byjoining in a true partnership with the people of the Third World, Canadians are contributing to real and lasting change. One of Canada’s international development agencies is the Aga

raised over $6.5 million. All of the funds raised by the Walk go overseas to support projects in Asia and Africa. In an indepcndenr evaluation of AKFC commissioned by the Canadian International Development Agency (CTDA), evaluators had this to say: [The Foundation’s] “stewardship and utilization of donor funds is impeccable” and the programs supported by the Partnership Walk “are of unusually high quality in their planning, managemerit, monitoring and general execution.” The Partnership Walk is a fundraising event, but it is also an

event to raise the awareness among Canadians of international development issues. Each year the Walk has a theme, and this year’s theme i s : Technoh~ That Work3 -Putting Peupk First. During the Walk and at the Walk sites, participants will get the opportunity to learn about some technologies appropriate for the developing world. Some of these technologies are involved in the production of silk, the keeping of health records, and local water conservation. In Kitchener last year over 700 walkers turned out on Walk day to enjoy the fun and entertainment and to learn more about intemational development. To find out about this year’s Partnership Walk in Kitchener-Waterloo, contact: l-800-267-2532. The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is especially true in the developing world. Most nations can afford only a tiny fraction of the medical and hospital care that Canadians take for granted. Finding inexpensive ways ofpreventing disease is, thercfore, one of the priorities of Aga Khan Foundation Canada. In a highly successful health care project in Kisumu, Kenya, for example, villagers are using local materials to protect spring wells from contamination. In addition, more than 500 village volunteers have been trained on how to improve sanitation and nutrition. In the last 3 0 years, the number of children attending school in the developing world has increased four times. The quality ofteaching, however, has often lagged behind the construction of schools. Nowhere is the gap more glaring than in the early years of childhood -- so crucial to intellectual development. Millions of children from poor _ _famil ies in the developing world attend some kind of daycare while their parents work. But daycare staff are often untrained and ill-equipped. In response to this problem, the Foundation is supporting a variety of projects in Asia and Africa that explore ways ofmakingdaycare centres the stimulating pIaces they need to be. continued on page 9

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s Canada becomes increas ingly involved in the global conomic community, qualified professionals are required to lead us into the 21~ Century.” This is the opening statement of the package sent to potential employers as they are recruited for the Faculty of Arts’ Applied Studies International Trade Specialization program. The demand for professionals specializing in trade is just one of many good reasons for coop students to consider doing work terms outside Canada. Also, work experience in another country speaks volumes on a resume about the incumbent’s resourcefulness, adaptability, and open-mindedness. So where can Waterloo co-op students go? Anywhere you want. There are three ways ofgetting yourself a work term in another country: through the Department of Cooperative Education, through your faculty and through an international development agency. There exists

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in the Department of Cooperative Education, two programs that are actively recruiting students for work terms abroad. Enrollment in the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) or in the Co-op Japan Program can almost guarantee you a job if you already have some experience in a technical field. IAESTE offers work placements in 60 different countries and will assist with obtaining work permits for the student once placed. IAESTE will also help obtain work permits for students who have found their own jobs in one of the 60 registered countries. Applications for registration in IAESTE can be obtained by request at the desk at the entrance to Career Services at Needles Hall. The Co-op Japan Program is a Canada-wide cooperative education opportunity for science, engineering and computer science students. This program is very convenient in that once a student is placed, the program looks after the student’s health insurance and visa requirements. A one-month culture and

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terms language training program in Vancouveris also provided directly prior to departure for Japan. This allows students to form a support group with other students from all accross Canada who will be together in Japan so that the culture shock is cushioned. The jobs in this program are of high quality and allow students to do research in leading fields oftechnology with state-of-the-art facilities. One course in Japanese is strongly recommended before application to the program. However, occasionally, due to an abundance of jobs and lack of students, particularly in science, third year applicants have been hired before being able to study any Japanese at all. Enrollment in the Co-op Japan Program is done through coordinator Margaret Grosch. Another way to obtain a work term overseas is to combine it with a school term in an academic exchange program. Each faculty has its own repertoire of such exchanges. The Faculty of Engineering has their academic exhange programs posted elegantly on a bulletin board just outside the Eng. Sot. Office in CPH. In Science, there is the well-establis’hed exchange with the University of Sussex. New exchange programs are being promoted in Math for France, Germany and Australia. In Arts there are several programs that place students overseas including the Xntenational Trade Specialization mentioned earlier in this article. What all these programs have in common is that they are run by individual departments and students must go through the departmental selection process in order to participate. It sould be noted as well that although Clo-op credit can be obtained for work terms completed inconjuction with school terms, the securing of such is not always guaranteed or even possible since obtaining a work permit is usually more difficult than a student visa. Finally, the Co-op Department is generally open to giving credit to overseas volunteer work terms particularly in international devclopmerit. Working as a volunteer in a developing country can be a tremendously enriching experience. It was in the spirit of affirming this student initiative that the Douglas Wright Award was established. There are a great many opportunities for this type of experience offered through international develoment agencies and religious missions organizations. It is true that there are more Co-op students than jobs in any given term. But it is also true that there are jobs in other countries that are being actively secured by coordinators only to find that there aren’t enough students to fill them.

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PartinP Awey Peters, Sr, Officer Internal Affairs Sigh. Now that the Student Centre is finally open, we can all relax and concentrate on exams. Yeah, whatever. There are still a million things happening in the Federation of Students’ office, not the least of which is the transition between us old lame ducks, and the young upstarts who are incoming. (No offcnsc guys.) With a new term and a new exec, come lots of ways to get involved; those out there who complain about this closed circle of Fed weasels should seize the opportunity to infiltrate CC 1 10. If you’re heading out on workterm, I’m in riced of Watpub Coordinators in London, Ottawa, Toronto, and Calgary. What could bc more fun than tnoulding the social activities offcllow Co-Op students? Give me a shout at x633 1, or fill out an application form at the Fed Office. Also, beginning May 1, Prcz-

is such sweet sorrow... elect Jane Pak is looking for: . one representative from each of AHS, Engineering, Science, and Math to sit on Senate Undergrad Council . two students to sit on the Undergraduate Student Relations Committee (this is a fun one, where you get to meet with Prez Downey, VP Kalbfleisch, and the like) . one student to sit on the Joint Health and Safety Committee . three students to sit on the Student Services Advisory Committee (to discuss what students get for the pesky ancillary fee) . one AWS student to sit on the Deans’ Nomination Committee . one student to sit on the Prcsident’s Advisory Committee on Parking If you’re interested in any of these seats, or would like a better explanation as to what the heck they all do, please contact Pak in the Fed Office, 888-4042.

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In India, daycare workers are being taught how creative but lowcost materials can encourage a child’s natural thirst for discovery. Over 6,000 workers have been trained to make and use an inexpensive ($5) kit of these lcaming aids. In most areas of the developing world, women do more work than men. Yet in the past, many development projects took women for granted. Often only men wcrc involved in discussions about credit, new farming techniques, and other crucial issues. Jt was assumed that women would bcncfit indirectly. But this didn’t happen. Instead, the status ofwomcn dcclinod. And projects that ignored the crucial role of women in rural economies were usually unsucccssfX In projects supported by Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the impact on women is carefully monitored. And in many projects, women are the catalyst for development of the wider community. In Pakistan, the Foundation supports several major initiatives that are improving educational opportunities for women. In rural arcas, schools are being built for girls who would otherwise have no education. Though better education and health care for the people of the developing world are crucial objectives, no lasting change can take place in conditions of severe poverty. This is why the Foundation’s ambitious rural development programs aim, above all, to raise incomes. The work of Aga Khan Rural Support Programs (AKRSP) in Pakistan, for example, has been praised by an independent evaluation carried out by the World Bank. The evaluating team concluded that the program had “produced outstanding results” and should be used as a model for development

In addition, if you like telling people when they can and cannot speak, Federation of Students’ Council needs a speaker to preside at council meetings beginning May 1. Knowledge of Robert’s Rules of Order is a definite plus for this position (especially since Councillors haven’t all learned them yet!); please contact VPUA-elect Rose at 888-4042. And as the sun slowly sets on the Codrington Administration, and the Pak people warm up to take over, the six of us will be heading our separate ways. Julie’s gonna wake up in the city that doesn’t sleep... Stephen will actually find a job that’snot in Timmins.. Kaz and I will join the elite of unemployed university graduates.. and David and Christine will be back in September doing the school than&sorry for your luck, you two). In any event, thanks from all of us for a good year, and best of luck to the new Fed-heads.

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Government educational by A Group of Peace and Conflict Studies Students special to Imprint n Friday March 24, 1995, 1the Liberal government announced its intentions to eliminate all Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funding for global education organizations across Canada. Over 80 global edu&tW cation centres, 10 provincial councils and 15 national and provincial global education programs will be affcctcd. This decision was made without consulting either the affected organizations or the many people who bcncfit from their presence. In Waterloo, we benefit from the presence of the Global Community Centre---one of the organizations affected by these draconian funding cuts. Global stands to lose 65% of its operating budget due to CIDA’s announced actions. The Global Community Centre has been working in the Waterloo region for over 20 years. During this period, it has been instrumental in educating elementary, secondary and university students about social -justice issues and the links bctwccn Canadians and people in other countries, particularly in the Third World. Uobai has also provided educational support to educators in churches, community organizations and unions to help raise awareness of environmental issues, hunger, peace and conflict issues, refugees,

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of response he gets before making a final decision. Ifsufficient response can be mobilized in the next two weeks, demonstrating widespread support for global education groupsincluding the Global Community Centre of Waterlooit may be possible to reverse this decision. “Anything is possible ifenough pressure is put to bear on the Minister [Andre Ouellct],” said Xuereb of the possibil. .

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adics and gentlemen, this week’s Firing Line in which predictable thanks and goobycs are said, It’s too easy to use this column as an opportunity to say goodbye to this and that and thank my friends who have helped me throughout this year. However, one mention in Firing Line for the hundreds of hours of dedication and service from dozens of people almost seems like an insult. There’s no one thing I could say to the people whose friendship and contributions to Imprint 1 have valued during my stay at this newspaper. I don’t know if this is widely understood, but this newspaper is produced by students in their spare time. In addition to their full course load, part-time jobs and the other occupational hazards of being a student, volunteers at fmprintcontribute another thirty hours a week writing, editing and laying out material for the rest of the university community. Without sounding like a firsttime fakr, the scnsc of pride one feels after looking back at an cntirc year of such dedication is quite simply overwhelming. The weird thing about saying “goodbye” is that this isn’t just the end of my year as Editor-inChief, it’s also the end of my six years as an Imprint contributor and the end of my six years at the University of Waterloo. I’ll still be around this summer, and my byline might crop up every once in a while, but my stint as a regular writer is over. How do I feel? Fucking tired. Seven-day work weeks and twelve hour work days aren’t exactly my idea of a “fun job,” The perpetual anxiety of deadlines, the ever-present threat of libel and the constant drive to motivate volunteers creates a stress level that would probably have killed me if I hadn’t trusted the staffwho work for this paper. So why do we do it? Who knows. It’s quite possible that the sleep-deprivation, malnourishment, mind games and office politics (not to mention ofice romances) officially qualify Imprint as a cult - a claim that has been made by more than one volunteer. The official reason is unknown even to a six year veteran such as myself. There are simple material gains like ftee pizza and f?ee CDs, as well as the lure of valuable computer experience (and free computer time) but surely the punishing schedule we put ourselves through is the hardest way to gain the aforementioned benefits. Whatever the reason, Imprint is probably similar to many other organizations on campus in that people think of “The Imprint” as this other thing, removed fi-om their lives, and probably very hostile to any change. The very few people who do actually manage to find their way into Imprint’s walls find out (at least I hope they do) that Imprint is in a constant state of change. The newspaper, its content and its look are all determined by people who thought it might be cool to work for a newspaper. There isn’t a shadowy cabal of newspaper freaks who make decisions. It’s a group of people from virtually cvcry fac.ulty at this university who are interested in the newspaper business. This is why I have an extremely low tolerance for complaints directed towards Imprint regarding its content. Comments regarding style and the usual to-and-fro arguing are what make the paper interesting. Complaints about articles that don’t reflect “the university community” are perhaps the funniest complaints since the newspaper is open to every student who pays their fees. If you feel that Imprint doesn’t reflect what you think a newspaper should be, it’s easy to sit back and grip and whine about it. The only way (fortunately, it’s also a very easy way) to have your voice heard is simply to come down to the Campus Centre, ask the turnkeys where the office is and say “Hi.”

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y university experience began in January of 1489 when I was studying for four of the six final exams that would make or break my admission to the University of Waterloo. I was tired and not terribly interested by the subject materia1, rather, it was an obstacle between me and my career. I selected Engineering because of the seemingly endless career opportunities. I considered other educational paths but I assumed it would be best to capitalize on my comfort with the technical subjects. I was eighteen, confident and I valued the prospects of a promising carter and the money and power it would entail. In frosh week I really had a great time, I enjoyed the endless parties and strings of new friends. Orientation came and went and I was left in the aftermath, unsure as to whether or not I was supposed to be here. The school and work terms also came and went as I learned how to make school work a little less stressful and a lot more efficient.

tunity; I have come this far.. why not finish; etc. I would cite the difference in opportunity in 1988 and 1995 as the major cause for my unsettled motivation. When a degree equalled unbound opportunity why would it not be a priority ? I assumed that my degree would be my ticket to a satisfying life, a life that would entail shelter, food, purpose, free time and money

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goodbye music and health took precedent over my career considerations? It sounds like sour grapes but let’s explore this option for a moment. If my partner is not driven by lack of attention to cheat on me, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not an attractive person. Simply becausle I am not allowing the pursuit of the golden handshake to consume my life doesn’t make me a

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a status symbol to have children with personality disorders caused by the lack of quality attention from their If would rather relaxed think involve

I was to consider another degree I approach it differently. No regrets, I could further benefit from a more attitude and enjoy the material. I I would like to take courses that more discussion and interpretation. To illustrate; I have always considered taking an MBA and I am still inter-

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To the Editor, A letter mentioning stalkers recently published prompted me to write this letter regarding harassment laws and stalkers. Some of Canada’s laws are very ambiguous or vague and unfortunately I had the opportunity to experience the consequences of this last term. 1 had a friend whom I call fairly frequently to talk to as we11 as do things with and I thought she appreciated my friendship and she liked talking to me. Somewhere along the way however she felt I was taking too much of her time up and instead of telling me this, she went to the police to tell them I was harassing her. The laws are written in the way that it basically says that if the other person “ought to” know their contact is not wanted, they can get charged with harassment. The person who goes to the police doesn’t have to tell the “harasser” that their contact is unwanted in order to charge the other person. As a result of this, I was threatened with a criminal record and was also threatened to be kicked out of residence because both of us lived in residence. I was completely shocked when the police first talked to me, especially since my friend had even phoned me four times the week before. And all of this happened just because the person who 1 thought was my friend did not have the guts to tell me that I was bothering her. I completely support laws such as harassment laws, because they do protect people’s rights in most cases. But when they are written as vaguely as these are, the potential fbr the abuse is apparent, as I unfortunately have found out. -Jason Fowler 3rd year Mech. Eng.

out of OUSA speaks To the editor, I have to take issue with some of the misinformation in your paper’s article on Queen’s withdrawal from OUSA. First ofall, AMS President Taz Pirmahomed apparently claimed that the AGM which voted to leave OUSA was “stacked” by members of the NDP and the International Socialists. In fact, there were about four NDP club members there and one or two ISers. How six people could stack a meeting of 104 is beyond me. Indeed, the largest party contingent present were members of the Tory club, led by club president Blair Bertrand, most ofwhom voted to leave OUSA due to the AMS’ lack of fiscal accountability. This was the largest turnout at an AMS AGM in over a decade. Rather than being stacked by sup-

and not of Imprint. porters, the meeting was promoted by us through posters urging people to turn out and vote. When the vote was called, I actually thought we were going to lose because most of the people in the room were people T didn’t know and there had been several proOUSA speakers. For OUSA supporters to claim the meeting was “stacked” and particularly for them to claim it was stacked by the left is absurd. This is Queen’s after all and you could probably fit the “left” in a phone booth. This was the second time in Ontario that a rcfcrendum OUSA was about to lose was cancelled (the first one was at U of T in the fall of 93). OUSA had so little support on campus after the entire proOUSA campaign resigned that Michael Bums had to come in and personally take over the campaign, with Ms. Pirmahomed and possibly VP Kevin Rex being the only Queen’s students involved in the pro-OUSA campaign. OUSA supporters complained that the atmosphere at Queen’s was too ‘“hostile” to OUSA and lo and behold, the referendum was cancelled. The lack of democracy is not in the largest turnout at an AGM in years voting to leave OUSA, but in the referendum being canccllcd because voters were supposedly “confUsed.” OUSA’s Executive Director is being hypocritical when he decries the lack of democracy in having an AGM vote to leave OUSA. After all, it was an AGM at Queen’s which voted to join in the first place (we were told at the time that last year’s ballot on an OUSA fee would not effect our membership). I also seem to recall that when Mr. Bums was President at Western, the school joined neither by a referendum nor even by an AGM but by a simple vote of Assembly. Of course, misinformation fi-om Michael Bums is nothing new. I just hope Waterloo students don’t take what OUSA says at face value. By the way, OUSA still hasn’t issued their constitutionally required quarterly reports or evidence ofwho is giving them office space. Bums claims it is McClelland & Stewart but everyone we’ve talked to at M&S denies it. Perhaps students should start asking OUSA some hard questions and make them accountable to their members. Perhaps students at Waterloo should also ask if their president served them well by taking a road trip to Queen’s to try to convince students here to support OUSA. Then again, how Waterloo’s president spends your money is none of my business. - Andy Lehrer, Chair, Out of UUSA Queen ‘s University

Campaign,

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Time to payback uw To the Editor, This is a letter in response to the numerous letters concerning students offended by the university’s method of requesting donations. Having spent four years at this university, those of us on the Renison Grad Class Challenge Committee feel we have been fortunate enough to benefit from the education we received, the services available, and the functions that are part of university life. A few of us are also some of the many students who struggled financially to make it to our final year. We are not blind to the fact that ifUW’s incredible Alumni support had not been strong as it is, the time we spent here would not have been the same. These two factors1) the university and its programs, services, and activities, and 2) that students are supported financially, is why we are a part of the Renison Grad Class Challenge Committee. Not only do we want to see UW remain at its high standards, we also want to help the students after us who are facing much harder financial limitations. As students, we

all benefit from the generosity of Alumni members. WC arc among the soon-to-be Alumni that wish too see this process continue. our

-The Renison Grad Cluss Challenge Committee

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woes To the Editor, I, a first year undergrad in Urban and Regional Planning, was put off by a truly ridiculous but nonetheless true story I was made aware of last week in a lecture. The incident in question involved a guest speaker who spoke of her organization during the lecture. Of course, the names used in this article will be fictitious, for I am not one to egg 0,n a loose cannon - I might become the next victim. The controversial incident occurred during a rather dry presentation by the guest speaker, we’ll call her Ms. B. Two students, named X and Y, were a little less than enthralled by the presentation, and therefore decided to start up a game of *‘paper rock scissors” with another student, 2, across the rather smallish lecture hall. While this is not exactly scholastic excellence at work, I must decree that the blame lies on both parties involved, for I was witness to the presentation and found it less than engaging. Regardless, students X and Y were playing the game with student Z and Ms. B apparently got the wrong idea through her egotistical head and assumed that students X and Y were looking at her in a lewd manner and making masturbation signs to student 2. Incidently, Ms. B felt a little uncomfortable with “paper rock scissors” and decided to go to the police to “tell” on students X and Y. Later, students X and Y were confronted by a police officer and escaped charges only because student 2 vouched for the fact that both students X and Y were asked

to apologize to Ms. B, and I guess in a moment of weakness, actually did. Both students also received disciplinary action from the universi ty. The incident itselfannoyed me, for I feel first of all that Ms. B has a little bit of an inflated ego to think that rcspcctablc university students could not contain their carnal lustings during a planning lecture. Secondly, I think if Ms. B was uncomfortable, she should have done what any normal person would have done in that situation and asked the students to leave. It is dangerous to get so touchy about hand movements - I thank God I didn’t put up my hand to ask a question - she might have thought I was reaching for her breast. Left on its own, however, that incident would not have got me writing. What got my ire up was the fact that students X and Y, both admirable people by my standards, were asked to apologize to this incompetent fool. Myself, if I was in that situation, I would have politely told Ms. B what she could do with her apology. There are no legal repercussions that could have fallen upon the students X and Y had they decided not to apologize. Furthermore, I think it is cowardly for the university not to stand behind two of its students who were obviously victimized in this situation, and feel it would be respectable for the university to reverse any disciplinary action taken against students X and Y. However, given the current state of our “bleeding-heart” politicallycorrect society, I doubt any of this will happen. In any case, I wish to send my sympathies to both students X and Y, and hope that unstable tight-asses such as Ms. B will eventually wake up and smell the roses. - KA. 1B Urban

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Bomber inconsistent To the Editor, I consider myself a regular student here at UW. I have always felt welcome here - although I am oceans away from home. I enjoy going out once in a while, and I have exams and quizzes to study for - like all the other students. However, something happenedyesterday evening which made me wonder about the norms here. My friends and I were heading off to the Bombshelter, to celebrate my friend’s birthday. I was feeling a little bit under the weather that day, but I decided to go because she is one of my closest friends. In fact, I was planning to stay for at most 1 hour, and it was a ‘way’ to get away from work etc... I have been to the Bombshelter a few times last year, and a few times this year too. But what 1 am confused about is why I was not allowed to go in on that particular evening, and not the other evenings when I was there. On those days when I was actually allowed to go in the Bombshelter, I had only a

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Women’s week or Womyn’s Centre? To the Editor, Who is Sue Elrick kidding when she states that “The Rag is exclusive in so far as prejudice and backlash perpctuatcs it as such” (Imprint, March 24), when I contributed my perspcctivc to this year’s Rag, and it went unpublished? If indeed “silencing difference is repressive,” then I should consider myseIf repressed (or was that oppressed?). If the editors of

Rag believe that “finding strength because of difference is empowering” (whatever that means), I have yet to find any evidencc of it. I read only one voice in this year’s truncated Rag, and it wasn’t one that I, or other women I know, share. The editors had the opportunity to be inclusive, and chose: not to take it. Considering that my article was about the increasing alienation I have felt from feminism, I found it ironic to be excluded by that same group. What was the Rag actually celebrating: Women’s WEEK, or the Womyn’s CENTRE?

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--Kim Jones 4B Engineering

Equity debate rages Tu the Editor, In his article, Mike Hamilton described a rather one-sided view of the employment equity issue and failed to note two important points: there are racist and sexist employers who allow bigotry to influence who they hire, and contrary to Hamilton’s implicit suggestion, there are educated and competent women and minorities in Canada. As Hamilton so exhaustively noted, ideally, employment should be based on an applicant’s ability and qualification for the position with merit grounded in the experience and contribution potential of the prospective employee: thus ensuring competition and hiring the best person for the job. Tn reality, however, some employers refuse to hire visible minorities or women, not because ofa deficiency on the part of the applicants, but solely because they are visible minorities or women. Ideally, the employment equity program ensures that, due to past unlawful discrimination in the work force on the part of racist or sexist employers, when a “white male” and a woman or visible minority with similar or comparable ability and experience applies for a job, the woman or visible minority will be hired. In reality, employers occasionally find themselves forced to hire a less or under-qualified woman or visible minority due to employment equity constraints (so I’m told). One can clearly see undesirable discrepancies between the ideology and actual implementation of each. I’ve been asked by colleagues: “How would you feel if you aced someone out of a job only because you were a minority?( I’m not , by the way.) “Like shit,” I answered. Had I been asked: “How would you feel if you aced someone out of a job only because you were a white male?” I am by the way. “Like shit,” I’d answer. Mike Hamilton did bring up a valid point. The legislation quoted in his article determines empioyment equity distribution on the percentage of women and minorities in the community. In some cases, arranging the employment distribution according to the “clientele” may prove to be more effective. TO elaborate Hamilton’s example of the police officer in a slightly different context. . t

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A community with a 50/50 gender ratio ofwomen to men would see the local police force staffed 50/ 50 women to men. The fact that the majority ofcriminals are male, however, would bring up complications (only slightly more than 20% of adults charged with offences in 1990 were women). This is not in reference to an real or imagined differences in the physical abilities of women and men, but rather to the legal implications of gender and legal technicalities imposed on the arresting and “frisking” of suspects. In this, and similar circumstances, current employment equity legislation (as quoted by Hamilton) can be seen to be lacking. Keep in mind, though, that there are exceptions to the rule, and changes to the law are possible. As a “white male” advocate of employment equity, I see the merits and flaws in its implementation. I do believe, though, that it is far easier to train someone who may be potentially lacking in qualifications than it is to eradicate either racism or sexism from those who let it cloud their judgement.

lier transgression as a valid reason not to help me. I missed one class and suddenly I was a candidate for Slacker of the Year. But I still had some faith left when I approached my Sociology Academic Advisor. His solution: Accept a 3 Year General Non Major Degree. A 3 Year General Non Major? After I had suffered through social statistics, theory and methods? He wouldn’t even sign me into the Sociology class that he was teaching. Then, I panicked. No one in my department was willing to help me. I was disappointed and upset to discover that the Sociology department clearly didn’t care. My status as a sociology major, let alone a graduating one, meant nothing to them. They are an apathetic department who are just going through the academic motions. I have received more support and guidance from the Speech Communication department even though Speech Comm is only my minor, which is all I have left to compensate for being at the University of Water-

-Jeff Robertson Religious Studies,

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Sociology sucks To the editor, My Dad called last week to tell me how proud he is that I attend the prestigious University of Waterloo. So proud in fact, that when he received a call from UW fund-raisers, hc gave them money. Well Dad, before you open your cheque book again, there’s something you need to know. I won’t be graduating in April as planned. Why? Because as a Sociology major, I am not supported by my department. You see Dad, there is a ruIe at UW; apparently a strict one. If you miss the first day of class without informing your professor, you will be removed from the class. This rule has a purpose: after all, if there arc students waiting to get into a class, it is only fair that those who do not show up lose their spot. However, the first week of classes is always hectic. Class lists are always changing as students run around trying to find the right advisor to sign their schedule, so most professors arc flexible. Except the professor of the one sociology course I needed to graduate. On arriving on the second day of classes, I was coldly informed that I had been removed from the class list. Genuinely aware of this rule, I sinccrcly apologized, explaining that 1 needed this course to graduate. But this professor wouldn’t budge. As a matter of fact, she iet me know just what she thought about “students like you.” Students like me? A student who has been taking six courses a term while keeping an A average just so that she could graduate in April? I guess so. But I didn’t panic. Being a graduating student in Sociology, I figured

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fessor would be willing to help me by signing me into their course. I figured wrong. Every professor turned me down, most of them citing my ear-

As a last resort, I had to approach my first year undergraduate advisor for advice. Now, in order to graduate, I must take a course by Letter of Permission at York University. In total this mistake will cost me: - $600 for a full credit course (neither York nor U of T offer 1/2 credit courses in sociology) - $50 Application Fee - $25 Letter of Permission Fee -Not to mention text books! I have to come up with an extra $675 so that my diploma will say I majored in Sociology. So much for starting to pay off my OSAP loan. But money is only part of the cost. I can’t attendconvocation with my friends, admission to my Grad program has been put in jeopardy, and I am concerned about balancing the unpredictable hours of my summer job with 6 hours of school a week, twice a week. I truly believe that the University of Waterloo is one of the best universities in Canada. So I hope that your donation is put to good use in one of UW’s more worthwhile programs. But Dad, next time you receive a call asking for money, don’t send a cheque; send this article c/o the Sociology Department. -Tara Barrows 3N Sociology

Dumb Science Shit To the Editor, This is in regards to “Biotechnology: The 2 1st Century Unfolds” (Scott Meyer, March 24). There are a couple of misconceptions present in the article that I want to address. First, it is theopinion of the author that biotechnology is the demonspawn of those Big Multi-nationals

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search work in North America is being carried out in small HI-40 person companies all over the continent. The reason that the BM companies receive the media attention is because they are the first bunch to actualIy bring such products ‘to the shelf. This should not be surprising ifyou think about that for a minute. As Mr. Meyer points out, the legislative disaster the government is working with, combined with the storm of pseudo-information floating around concerning biotech, has made for a very confused and scared legislative process. The only companies that can afford to navigate this jungle successfully are the BM companies. Anyone familiar with the BGH story can tell you that the biggest single cost Monsanto has incurred has been for lobbying. If there does seem to be an overabundance ofdevious and selfserving biotechnology coming through the fegislative pipeline, we must accept some of the blame for creating a system which only the rich and powerful companies can afford to applzase. As an aside, forced product labclling will be another impediment weeding out the diversity ofplayers in the biotech market, leaving the bloated BM sole kings of biotech. I feel that it is high time that a comprehensive legal guideline be drafted for acceptance of biotech products (probably not for same reasons as Mr. Meyer however). Second, Mr. Meyer identifies the greatest risk we face from biotechnology (No small feat I would say....with tongue-in-cheek): The loss of biodiversity. Unfortunately, points used to back up this claim - increased susceptibility of human agriculture, and herbicide proliferation - don’t have anything to do with this problem. The number one threat, T mean the supero-uno threat to biodiversity, is man clcaring land. Why is man clearing land? Usually for two reasons: man wants to pillage the trees, or man needs more land for crops. You see, despite how much better agricultural practices have become, it’s still not enough.The major thrust of biotechnology involves getting the same amount of product for less resources. More milk per cow fewer cows, more corn per husk less land, more wood pulp per tree - fewer trees, hardier produce - less wastage, successful fish farming Grand Banks Fish Preserve . A lower resource cost is the win-win equation everyone would like to have. Product can be produced cheaper, hence higher profits, with a lower ecological impact. 1 realize this scenario is a dream world. Not every biotech generated surplus will result in lowered resource usage (look at yoghurt). But this mentality is what drives the more altruistic researcher. Third, you seem to end your article with what I consider to be the Genetic Sna;pshot mentality. The genetic make-up of the denizens of this planet is as it should be right NOW, try not to mishandle this delicate egg called the biosphere, don’t change it, it could fall apart al 1 over you! ! ! The reality is that the earth is genetic soup. The makability of our genetic make-up is the cornerstone of the evolutionary prtlcess. As a species, we have been the almost-direct cause of more genetic changes than a hundred years of continued

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continued from page 14 genetic engineering could hope to achieve. Evolutionary changes because of us occur wherever you look. For instance, beside roads in Canada you will find plants resistant to salt. Now, you don’t see anyone running to Parliament Hill demonstrating against our genetic manipulation of grasses. The number of such ‘genetic victims’ of man is large (and growing every minute of every day), in the total absence of biotechnology. After all, crossbreeding, in essence, involves a massive, quasi-rational, genetic mix-and-stir process. Now, before you start feeling collective guilt, keep in mind that nature’s been pulling the same trick on man for hundreds of thousands of years. Truly, this world is a frothy genetic soup, and we’ve been actively and consciously stirring it for thousands of years. Now this is not a ‘well, we’re already guilty, no poi nt in going back now’ argument. It’s merely an attempt to state that the roughand-tumble world of genetic manipulation is a fact of life. Just because we now want to be more conscious and directed in this aspect ofourexistence doesn’t change the underlying reality. You also left out a reference for more information: Canadian Institute of Biotechnology, 130 Albert Street, Suite 420 Ottawa, Ontario, KlP 5G4 (Yes, shocking but true, we have a biotechnology institute. You probably haven’t heard of them because they really can’t afford ads

in The Globe and Mail.. . .ou government has yet to see the need to properly tid such non-profit quasiautonomous agencies).

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Tu the Editor, I often come across newspaper and magazine articles dealing with sensitive, controversial issues and am angered with writers who purport to be good, objective joumalisfs while it is quite obvious in what they write which side of an argument they support. Sadly this type of reporting is not the exception in this age of “open-mindedness”, but is often the norm. However, I found Heather Calder’s report on MP Svend Robinson’s visit to UW to be a refreshing respite from the onesidedness that I often find in such articles. Surprisingly (to me), I found that she reported exactly what was said, and didn’t try to interpret Mr. Robinson’s speech and the ensuing question period in any way. Ms. Calder’s “Sitting on the Fence With Dignity” also impressed me a lot in that she didn’t dismiss someone’s argument just because he/she belongs to a certain group. Her commentary on how people tend to shut their ears to the points made by those with whom they may not agree holds more truth than many people would like to

admit. However, why should an argument made by someone from a particular religious or political group be any less valid than one brought forth by a person who is non-partisan (if that is possible)? In conclusion, I could find enough bad things to write about but negativism doesn’t help anyone. Therefore, I am commending what I see to be a good job of objective journalism by Heather Calder, and I encourage her to continue writing informative reports from which each person can come to his or her own conclusions (or not). I’m sure that a lot of joumalists in whichever medium they work, be they amateurs gr professionals, could learn a lot by following the example of Ms. Calder. Congratulations for ajob well done! Arlie Peters. -1B Math, French

What’s in a name? To the Editor, It was several minutes after the MC’s at the athletic banquet congratulated themselves for pulling offthe fastest and smoothest awards ceremony yet, and my jaw was still scraping the ground while my teammates stared at me in shock. Somehow, the organizers got the correct name on the program for the Athena Nordic Ski Team’s Most Valuable Skier, but when it came to verbally announcing this award, and labelling the plaque, they mixed up

15 MVS with our Outstanding Graduating Senior. Imagine my anticipation as I sat waiting to be recognized for my teammates having voted me for the MVS. Now imagine my shock, as with our graduating senior, when the MC called her name by mistake. This isn’t the issue that forced me to write this letter. My complaint is that my coach immediately went up to an MC to ask that the correction be admitted. I guess this was too big of a request after the MC’s finished gloating about their perfect cermony, because his request was denied. I feel that the real essence of the problem is that this was a mistake made to the Nordic Ski Team, and not one of the higher profile spurts. Obviously it wasn’t worth their time to admit the mistake made to a lowly, insignificant sport like Nordic Skiing. It is quite disheartening to realize that the intellectual snobbery that exists across the faculties here at Waterloo also applies to a hierarchical ranking of athletic teams. The less prominent sports are not taken as seriously, and have to keep fighting to prove that they are worthy pursuits. Does anyone realize that my team starts training during the second week of school, and continues racing as late as mid-March? In addition, we compete in an expensive sport. Due to cutbacks in funding, my teammates are expected to make financial sacrifices for costs not completely funded, such as paying for waxes and some entry fees. This is on top of paying for our own racing uniforms, warm-ups, at least one pair of classical and skating

skis, and two pairs of ski boots. To even make the team, some members had to pay entirely for travel expenses, hotel accommodation, waxes, and race entry fees at a couple of pre-selection races. Hence, we first prove to ourselves that we are- dedicated athletes, and that Nordic Skiing is a legitimate and valuable sport. We also make efforts to prove to the university that we are corn&ted to fulfilling our obligations as a varsity sport. As such, we have worked at the concession booths for basketball games, we attended MIC and WIC meetings, and some of our members worked at the Varsity Casino night, which interestingIy, saw a poor turnout from most of the higher profile sports. We did the Ring Road 5km run in the fall, and several members spent hours working on two banners to submit in the Athletic Banquet contest. What I am suggesting is that despite our dedication and hard work both through participation in the sport and in the university athletic’s department, we are still considered one of the less prominent varsity sports. I do acknowledge that mistakes can happen, so I am not suggesting that this mix-up was intentional. However, no one recognized that the oversight was disappointing to myself, embarrassing to my teammate, and further, the lack of an apology was insulting to the team. Perhaps we should just transfer the whole team to Europe. Sure we’d get our butts kicked, but at least we’d get a little respect. -Jomne

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Frogs have already successfully reproduced in space and the bounds of what we can do seem limitless. Today, more than ever, space colonization is becoming a reality. What is it that has the public enraptured with the idea of space? Could it be the possibility of finding alternative life forms or just the excitement of the unknown? What ever it is, it is alluring. Space has captivated the imagination of many writers, artists and directors all over the world. However with today’s technology, we no longer have to speculate about what the planets look like and what they are composed of because we can send satellites to explore them. One of the most captivating aspects of this research is its visual aspect. They quality ofphotographs taken from space is marvellous. For some people, they spark a lifetime love affair with space. The driving urge to see more fascinating pictures and know more about these distant places can become addictive. Likewise many people are becoming star gazers. Many people start by observ-

avc you ever looked up in the sky on a clear night and tried to find the Big Dipper? Do you ever wonder how pcopie got away with naming constellation patterns after a lion, a crab or a scorpion when that isn’t what they look like? The fact that ancient travcllcrs used to use the stars as navigational references gives me a nostalgic feeling. It seems that through the ages as technology developed, more and more people have lost touch with their natural cnvironmcnt. Fortunately technology has helped many scientists get a better undcrstanding of the way our earth, solar system and galaxy work. Governments have been able to keep massive public support to put both pcoplc and outrageously cxpensivc satditcs in space. Even though a space shuttle cxplodcd and a dcfcctivc satellite was sent into orbit and had to bc repaired costing astronomical amounts of money , the public has not cut the cord.

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UW recognizes student athletes at 34th Annual Banquet by Natalie Gillis Imprint sports (with files from

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nother exciting season of outstanding varsity athletics officially came to a close last Friday evening at the University of Waterloo’s 1994-95 Athletic Awards Banquet at Federation Hall. Over 450 athletes, coaches, VIP’s, and guests gathered to honour UW’s finest athletes at the 34th annual event. Following is a descriptionof the evening’s major awards and their recipients: Rookies of the Year The Federation of Students’ Rookie of the Year Awards are awarded to first year varsity athletes who best exemplify hard work and determination after having had outstanding years in their respective sports. These are the athletes to watch for in the upcoming seasons they continue to excel in their careers at UW. The Athena Rookie of the Year was Bernice Willemse. She had outstanding seasons with both the Athena field hockey and indoor hockey teams. She was a major goal contributor as the team’s second leading goal scorer, and finished second overall in the OWIAA in scoring for rookies. She also started every field hockey league and playoff game of the season in her position as midfielder. In indoor hockey, Bernice also excelled, ending the season as the team’s second leading goal scorer and tied in goals for rookies in the OWIAA. The Warrior Rookie of the Year Award was shared by the Warrior hockey team’s starting goalie Joe Harris and Warrior foot-

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Harris stepped in as the hockey team’s starting goalie, although he’d had no OUAA experience, and came from a Junior B league, as opposed to Junior A. Despite his lack of experience, Harris finished the season ranked 5th out of 16 teams in the OUAA, with a goals against average of 3.16. He was also named Warrior Hockey Rookie of the Year. Jason Van Gee1 started every Warrior football game this season. Maintaining a difficult balance between athletics and academics, he also finished his term in the top 10% of first year engineering students. Van Gee1 was a major contributor on defense, and was recognized by the OUAA for his efforts by being runner up for the Rookie of the Year Award. Athletes of the Year The recipients of the Athlete of the Year Awards exemplify hard work, determination, and strong leadership. Candidates exhibit exemplary athletic skill as well as academic proficiency and outstanding community contributions. The Male Athletes ofthe Yearare Shawn Smith and Gory Delaney. Smith has made outstanding contributions as a key member of the Warrior volleyball team over the past five years. For the past three years he has been named to the All-Canadian Men’s volleyball team, only the third athlete in UW’s history to have accomplished this feat. On the court, Smith averaged an amazing 60 kills per 38 league sets, with an average of I.57 kills per set. He has been named MVP and played on All-Star teams at numerous tournaments this season. His dedication and excellence in athletics will long be remembered. Gory Delaney has been a key member of the Warrior football team over his five year career, having been named an OUAA AllStar every year of his football career at UW. Anchoring the Warrior defense this season, his efforts culminated in his being awarded the CIAU’s prestigious President’s Trophy for the best defensive player in Canada. Tn addition, Delaney led the country in interceptions last season, and led the OUAA in punt returns this year, becoming Waterloo’s alltime leader for career interceptions with 17 ranking him 3rd in OUAA history. Delaney’s significant contributions to the football team, as well as to UW’s record books, have ensured that he will not be forgotten. The Female Athlete of the Year Award goes to Leanne Dietrich. Over her outstanding five year career with the Athena field hockey and indoor hockey teams, she has been named to the OWIAA All-Star field hockey team twice, and once to the OWIAA All-Star hockey team. She startedevery league and playoff game as forward in her five years with the field hockey team, and was a leading scorer in the OWIAA last season. She also served as team captain, and was named the team’s MVP. Over the winter, she served as the indoor hockey team’s assistant coach. NO stranger to awards, Dietrich has been named UW’s Rookie of the Year and is a winner of the Mike Moser Memorial Award. She has also played on the Ontario Provincial Field

Hockey Team for three years. Her hard work and dynamic abilities will make sure that her contributions to UW athletics will be long remembered. Coach of the Year It is the responsiblity of the coach to create a cohesive team that can work in concert, and to help the team reach beyond its potential. At the same time, the coach must also maintain an environment which allows athletes to be challenged and to excel on an individual basis. This year’s coach of the year was Warrior volleyball head coach Ed Price. In his second year as headcoach, he led the team through an incredible season; the team finished with an amazing 1 l- 1 record. Jumping in and out of the top ten national rankings all season, the Warriors won the OUAA-West Divison finals, winning a spot in the CIAU’s. Seeded 8th before the tournament began, Price collected the team and guided them to a 5th place finish overall. His leadership will be long remembered at UW.

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Course, even those whose luck escaped them still had oodles of fun. To top the day off, the Athletics Department held a raffle for various articles of sporting equipment and “Athletic Bucks,” redeemable at any varsity event or Campus Ret program. Congratulations to winner:5 Ratna Sabharmal, Melanie Heggart, Tory Vocher, Doris Simcich, Janey Locheed, Monica Rooney, Jennifer Jacques., and De& Moyer. All winners may pick up their prizes in the Athletics office in PAC 2039 between 8:30 am and 4:30 PmThanks to the Varsity Shop, everyone at Campus Ret and the Athletics Department, and all who took the time to browse through the various displays - you made the day a smashing success!

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Opportunities for audience participation abounded throughout the day, and many students took advantage of these. Trying their luck on the Warriors FootbaKToss [those guys make catching a speeding football look a lot easier than you’d

he lifeguard teams from the university pool began training for the Ontario University Lifeguard Championsips early in the year. UW’s two teams, Waterloo ResQ and In The Zone began their training under the direction of coach Garreth MacDonald, a Provincial and National Lifeguard Champion and World Life Saving Competitor with Team Canada in the UK in 1994. The members of the teams were, for Waterloo ResQ: William Rosehart, Andrew Wachner, Anna Parker, Erica Lewis, and Corrine Peden. The In the Zone team members were Derek MacKenzie, Bryan Huang, Sharon Lean, and MarieAnne Fairbain. The first lifeguard competition for these “rookies” was on March 4th, hosted by Waterloo. The team

fared well against two other cxperienced teams placing 3rd (In the Zone) and 4th (Waterloo ResQ). In the Zone managed to take 1 st in the Lifeguarding Skills event. The teams travelled to Ottawa to Carleton University the following weekend for the Ontario University Lifeguard Championships. There were 12 teams entered from across Ontario, including U of T, Western, and Guelph. The team performed very we1 i, but some controversial judging caused them to end up with disappointing final results. It was interesting to note that the top six teams were from NorthEastern Ontario while the bottom six were from Southern Ontario. Overall, In the Zone placed 9th, while Waterloo ResQ came out slightly ahead in 7th position. Waterloo did manage to beat out Western, Guelph, York, and Laurentian. This past weekend, In the Zone

travelled to Peterborough (after getting up at 530 am) toparticiapte in the 11 th annual Invitational Lifeguard Competition. Waterloo placed 1st overall, and 1 st in the first-aid event. It was felt by all the spectators that Waterloo should have won the water rescue situations, but the team placed 2nd in this event, losing to next year’s hosts. Waterloo had a strong showing placing 2nd in the relay, and 3rd in the lifeguarding skills.Waterloo went head to head with the team that beat them three weeks earlier at the competition hosted by Waterloo, and won! Team members that particiapted in the competition were Sharon LIean, Bryan Huand, Derek MacKenzie and Coach Garreth MacDonald in place of Mary-Anne Fairbain. The lteams would like to thank Campus Recreation for their support for training, and Sally Kemp and Brian Cartilage.

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The primary goal of the weight club was to control access to the room, ensuring that varsity athletes had time to complete their training programs and that students also had the opportunity to take advantage of it. However, the popularity of the room soon grew, and the two founding members became involved, along with Athletic Director Sally Kemp, in the planning of a second room, This second room was to accommodate the general student population and thus to eliminate traffic in the first one. Now, according to Sally Kemp and Jane Varley, it is time for the Weight Club to expand once again. Kemp explains that “clubs are very different from each other. Some are organized and some aren’t. And even though the Weight Club has been around for several years, it hasn’t been very active in programming.” This month, Kemp, Varley, Fritz and Walsh conducted a survey to find out which piece of equipment weight-room users would most prefer to have added to the room. A large number of people responded, indicating that there are many who would benefit from a more active weight club. According to Kemp, “there are many things that a weight club executive could be more involved in, such as organizing speakers, offering courses, and full-time supervision. Right now, students don’t take pride in

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Fedmhon

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he word for the night was “energy” and it was clear from early on in the show that the power of the lineup wouldn’t wane in the least. Two great bands, The Gan... I mean Pizzazz, and the Headstones quickly got the expectant, though moderately sized crowd pumped and kept them moshing throughout the rest of the show. The opener, The Gandharv... that is, Pizzazz, had little trouble bridging with the audience as their flamboyant stage presence quickly drew them into their celestial dance. Among their memorable repertoire was a zany rendition of “The Circus Song” complete with a masked leadguitarist [COOL!]. It was clear that the crowd was left wanting more of The Gandharvas (ok, ok, the secret’s out...) and they left the stage under a hail of cheers and praise; only to be succeeded by yet another stalwart group: The Headstones. Even before the Headstones made their appearance, the expectant crowd began stirring and moving expectantly towards the stage, hoping not to miss even a second of the show. Looking like a strange cross between Andrew Dice Clay and Sid Vicious, Headstone lead vocalist Hugh Dillon spent what little time he wasn’t singing, exchanging cigarettes and loogies with the crowd. Dillon wasted no time getting in with those courageous enough to get caught up in the gruelling press that soon became the first two metres of floor space before the stage

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(among those sardined fans was yours truly). Between the charged antics on stage and the violent frolicking of the fans, the energy seemed too much to handle. What began as sporadic stage-diving and shortlived crowd surfing (seeming a little comical in the confined “surfable” area in the Volcano) soon became a little more ambitious as the “true” Headstones devotees felt an overwhelming drive to join the band on stage. Things were soon back to normal with few good-

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hearted shoves from some of the larger members of the Volcano staff. The night all-too quickly ended with an encore consisting of a Headstones cover of “Rawhide” from Blues Brothers fame (Jake would have been proud), and “It’s All Over.” All in all, the night was complete with energy, drive and great tunes. Those who failed to make an appearance missed a show to re-

member.

f you like great music, moshing, and getting a little bit wet, then you should have been at Fed Hall, the place to be to catch Moist in action. Their first show in over a month showed concert goers what kind of energy levels can be produced when a great group performs live. Their previous visit to Kitchener-Waterloo featured them at the Lyric, which was fun for all because Moist performed with “the best band in Canada,” a group called Zolty Cracker, who have put out there CD Gu Please Stay, which is “the best CD I’ve heard in my entire life,” according to Jeff Pierce, bassist for Moist. The Juno winners for best new Canadian group honoured Fed Hall with the first taste of three new songs, which are to be released on their new album, expected in stores January. As well, material that hadn’t been released previously was gushed out at various times during the set. Bent security had a workout by holding people back when “Push” and “Silver” were performed. And I do mean performed. Moist gave their all at Thursdays show, which included a very lively David Usher throwing various band members around stage. Just one question though. What’s with the permanent grimace on Mark Makowy’s face? It

certainly isn’t due to a bad performance by the band, because they played exceptionally well. Not to mention that Paul Wilcox is the first drummer I’ve seen perform without shoes. I’m still in awe at how well Pierce and Usher sound vocally together. Even while screaming into a microphone and successfully attempting to body surf into a relatively violent mosh pit, Usher’s voice never faltered. Well, his clothing was a bit torn. I guess some lucky fan has a really good souvenir from that concert. This show marks the beginning of yet another tour. Their last tour took them through Britain three times, and it is there that they find most of their foreign support. “You stop being ‘I’ when you’re doing this, y,ou’re’we, “’ Pierce commented about touring. The Vancouver based band currently have a six album record decal,and is happy with their triple plar.inum record SiEver. This week Moist will be producing a video of their third single for the UK, but they are not planning to release it here. If you missed Moist at Fed Hall, you should be regretting it. It was an amazing concert given by the Juno award winning “Best New Group. ” But don’t despair. If you’re lucky, they might be back this summer. Or you can get out your Silver CD, turn the volume up as high as it will go, close your eyes, and try real hard to imagine what it must have been like to be a Fed Hall, Give it up, it’s not going to work anyways. Better just catch them next time they’re in town. This is a band that won’t fade away anytime soon!

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fare showed that a wide variety of bands are trying to get out of th

ing section at the end was willfully arious. With some rehearsing

tal, and were thus vindicated. Just. Typical rock,’ would describe,

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on the theme, and whole mess of energy that threw them about the stage. And I loved the sweater and the pants. So that left The Shannon Lyon Pop Explosion, and despite the ridiculous name they put on a

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was a bad evening for music. Quite far f?om it in fact, as the musical

Paintbox obviously and painstakingly pastiched their Britrecord collection (Blur, Kinks, Barrett, Who, Ride etc.) into fine material, topped off with

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out any changes in instrumentation from the original. Their lack of energy in their performance also fails to elevate their music. The most curious part of the show was their choice of set list. They chose to play their three singles, “Undone -The Sweater Song,” “Buddy Holly,” and “My Name Is Jonas,” right in a row. The really weird part was that they played them about three quarters of the way through their set. The rest of

t must be tough being a video sensation. When you’re on tour you must live up to the excitement of your videos. Weezer tried but failed. From a visual standpoint these guys are quite unexciting. That’s the reason why their videos arc so dressed up. They can’t hold your attention with only their own actions. Rivers Cuomo simply stands and sings. The drummer looks completely bored and the lead guitarist fails to provide any cncrgy ;ts wclI. It wasn’t a complete failure though. Wcczcr arrived in Toronto complctc witha kitschy light show. They had a giant W with little wings that was definitely a take on Van I-Men’s logo. They lit it up with large white headlights. It just oozed cheez. The bassist also added to this theme with his rock star posings. He as the music. seemed absolutely giddy with his I’m as boring mocking of the tr&ional moves of most rock bands. Ultimately the the show failed to match the climax act wore thin. You might have been that these selections provided. Afbetter off just listening to their alter “Jonas” the crowd started to bum. stampede out the door to their parThe live Weezcr isn’t much ents’ waiting cars with their Weezer different from the recorded verparaphernalia in hand. sion. They tend to play their limited Merchandise is the best part selection of songs straight up withabout being a video star. Those

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kids snapped up outrageously priced t-shirts” without a thought. At 30 bucks a shirt Weezer has a nice little goldmine. Hayden started off the night with his trademark brand of acoustic music. It was the first time I’ve ever gotten past that “Nirvana Unplugged: The Virtual Tour” feeling his performances give. His emotion translated very well to the crowd who, in turn, responded apprcciably. Hamilton’s Tristan Psionic came on next and provided a short but intense set. This showing was considered a warm up for the Sonic Unyon showcase that was taking place the next night. The band didn’t cheat the audience though, as they put a lot of effort into their show. Their rendition of “25 cents” was one of the night’s best performances. The highlight of the night was the show put on by the Archers of Loaf. They smoked throughout their 50 minute set. The band puts every last bit of energy they can muster into their show. The four of them were absolutely soaked with sweat by the end. It was surprising that they came out and played “Audiowhorc”and “Harnessed in Slums” right out of the blocks. I figured these songs would provide the climax to their show. The Loaf knew what they were doing though, and their set finished as furiously as it started with songs like “Wrong” and “Nostalgia.” It’s too bad Weezer had to come on after and mar a perfect night of music.

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prevalent at Toronto rap shows, agreeing that it has a negative impact on the music. Steven Page was the consumate schmooze artist with any journalist who waIked up to him. As for the rest of the bands, you probably saw as much or more of them if you watched the show at home. By the time Celine Dion appeared with David Foster backstage, all to the pirranha-like greetings and innocuous questions of the big Toronto dailies and the two Canadian networks, I had quit being interestcd in the lot of them. It’s easy to see how out of touch a band constantly in

t was a strange contrast of worlds to go on one night to the Swallow Records party (see opposite) and the next to the biggest corporate rock wankfcst in Canada this year. I mean, there were 2500 journalists at this thing, not to mention the artists and the thousands of screaming fans in the arena, who were actually stupid enough to be buying scalped tickets to this thing! Given these facts, this reporter as the lone soul in the Imprint backstage contingent felt like an exceedingly small this setting could fish in a gigantic, tuxedoget, both musically clad pond. In Newfoundland you’re either unemployed, or and culturally. Nevertheless I had a you’re funny. These people are neither. Overall, it strange sortofwarped fun. was pretty morbid-ally funny. petted to win) with his band’s Best The artists who came into the press Art for the sake of money has Alternative Album win. A member area were herded in and out so fast never been a good idea, if that fact of the Ghetto Collective seemed that I had almost no chance to say needed to be repeated. very concerned at the violence two words to them. A conversation

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deck proved to be a comfortable environment speckled with various contributors of the Canadian hip-hop scene - Kish, Maximum Definitive, the new-comer Socrates, King Lou, and Oliver and Tracey of Rap Cip. As Socrates and his convoy (one of the opening acts) progressed downstairs to the stage, 1knew it was on. It was really on.

For a kid fresh on the scene, Socrates performed a tight show with the skill of a veteran. We all agreed he would blow-up in the near future. Remember: you heard it here first. The other opener, The Rascalz, are my favorite Canadian crew, Flexin’ on stage with two crazy dancers and an eerie, mysterious sound, they gave Toronto an exhilirating puff of the Vancouver joint. The Roots finally emerged with their Philly street style, and created a mad vibe in the house. The stage was littered with live instruments a drum set, a bass guitar and a keyboard, and The Roots used them all to their till potential. Performing only four tracks from their album, the remainder of the show was an assortment of adlib beats and free-styles which demonstrated their phenomonal musical skills.

Tariq., the lead member, relcasedan emotionally-charged, high energy show, yet he possessed sweet finesse as he conducted his crew through an orchestra of inspiring and poignant dimensions. The most interesting aspect of the show was the freestyle flow. 1 can’t even begin to describe the sounds that emerged from the mouth of the human beat-box. They took the audience through mind-boggling sets of nostalgia with their renditions, of old-school hip-hop in a segmenlt Tariq desribed as “HipHop 10 1 -” You really just had to be there to understand. Overall,

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doring fans ofroyalty came to Stages to hob-knob with Ah igh society last Thursday. The red carpet was laid out to Lee Aaron, the Metal Queen herself. To quote Harvey Keitcl, “Hardy-fuckin’-har.” Man, wasn’t that a cheezy opening paragraph. I’m sure that exact same couple of sentences have been used hundreds of times during Lee Aaron reviews. She hasn’t been able to shake that image though. Not that she isn’t trying. She’s changed her billing to Canada’s Queen of Rock. She’s now sporting the latest in grungc-wear. She’s also eliminated her older songs from her shows. She strictly stuck to her more commercial fare that propelled her up the charts a few years ago. She also has a brand new album that she played a few selections from. This was a night of good party-time rock ‘II’ roll. The band that she has assembled plays very capably. Since they were backing “Hard Rock’s Fa-

show for a crowd that was clearly vourite Ogle” (my billing) they there just to see Lee Aaron. It’s made sure to stand aside and let Aaron be the show. They ended up funny how far a band can fall in giving their instruments their comsuch a short time. Two years ago plete attention. Without the disSlik Toxik won the Canadian Entraction of having to put on a show tertainer of the Year Award at the for the audience, their playing was Junos and now they can’t even get elevated. anybody to move from their seats. Aaron proved that she can still Even though the dance floor was belt them out with the best of them. empty for the band’s performance, She’s no Mariah Carey, but then they still put everything they had again, who would want her to be? into the show. Her voice is versatile enough so she The band put on a good set. can growl for her hard rockers and When they choose to really rock it then soften up for the ballads. out they can be quite amazing. Aaron even tried to play guitar . Everyone is a master at their reon some of the numbers. Due to spective instruments and Nick technical difficulties she risked elecWalsh’s voice is great for this brand trocution each time she did. She of music. gave it a go however, and was punThe selections of their new alished with some painful shocks, but bum really worked well. Neal BusAaron’s a trooper and the crowd by’s thunderous drumming during appreciated her efforts. “Just Fade Away” was the show’s The crowd never strayedmuch highlight. The guitar work should from their stand and toe-tap techalso get an honourable mention. It nique. It wasn’t until the end of the provided some great energy to songs show when Aaron trotted out her like “I Wanna Gun” and “EMI.” hits “Watcha Do To My Body” and The crowd was finally coaxed “Hands On” that they started danconto the dance floor with the playing, Maybe they couldn’t move ing of “White Lies/Black Truth.” due to the paralysis incurred beUnfortunately this was played at cause of the show’s unnecessary the end just as the crowd was startvolume. I guess Aaron had to out ing to put some energy into their do the opening band Slik Toxik show. who were loud as well. The band did do an admirable Slik Toxik put on a spirited job though.

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lik Toxik’s recent history is rife with paradoxes. They won a Juno and were Much Music’s Entertainer of the Year yet they were dropped by their ex-label EM1 because the label considered them irrelevant. Now they have produced an album, titled Irrelevant, that is vastly superior to their first yet this album has gone virtually unnoticed by the buying public. I had a chance to chat with drummer Neal Busby before last week’s show at Stages... Is it okay with you that Dave Mercel,the lyricist, speaks for the five other guys in the band? That’s very good question. He’s very good with words whereas a lot of us aren’t. He can put some words together that actually have Whereas some decent meaning. most or our stuff, if we wrote it, would be a little more drastic soundWe all have very ing, I guess. strong individual opinions and where his stuff is more inclined to be subject matter that would appeal to more people and not be so introspective. No, we don’t have any problem with him writing our lyrics at all. That’s why he’s doing it. It’s because he’s better at it. Do you find yourself always agreeing with him? Take for example YJust Fade Away” which is a strong statement about Kurt Cobain. Yeah. It’s a strong statement but I don’t think it’s an overly negative statement. It’s just a realistic statement which is what 1 liked about it. He was telling it like it is, you know. Like a lot of people were trying to deify the man but he was just a songwriter putting out nice pop songs and he just couldn’t handle it so he snuffed himself.

I was wondering if “Twenty Something” kind of came out of the EM1 fiasco where they said your music isn’t relevant compared to, say, what the Seattle bands were putting out. You’re kind of attacking that generation. No, were not attacking it. “Twenty Something” in particular is more of a perspective from individuals in the band that were going through those sort of things. They were living at home and still getting flack from our parents about not having a job and stuff like that. . . having your parents lecture you. But “Twenty Something” and the fact it’s about Generation X, it’s just because it’s about us. It had nothing to do with being labelled irrelevant. I wanna go back to your otd record company. Do you still wanna comment on it at all? I’ll comment on it Lhm... briefly.

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were young and naive enough to believe everything that we were told. It came as quite a shock to us when, after going gold in Canada and winning a Juno and Much Music awards and being quite a high-level, highprofile band, but in the eyes of the record company we weren’t a success. We were not a success for them. From that they determined that it wasn’t financially a good idea for them to continue with our contract which we find quite unbelievable. Do you think you’re a better band because of what’s happened? Yeah. We’re constantly improving I think the playing on the new album is much better than on the first. Now we’ve done a ton more shows. That’s one thing they can’t take away: the live aspect of the band. That’s where we really shine. We’re a good live act. No one can deny that. They can say that the album’s no good or it doesn’t sound good or whatever. But they can’t come see us live and say that it’s not a good show. Do you have any regrets about what you’ve done on the new album? As far as what? I’m thinking the Sex Pistols cover. I look at it as covering the Sex Pistols is a taboo. Well we just thrash it out and whatever. It sounds good. It’s sounds okay. Did you guys set a goal for this album? Right now the idea is to sell all the ones that were made. We know it’s probably not gonna sell as much as DO~PI ’ The Nasty because we’re not getting a lot of airplay. But times have changed, I suppose, in the eyes of the media and our type of rock is not considered relevant.

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ed’s Atomic Dustbin make a go of it again with their third release, Bruinblood v&me. Old fans who are expecting the same loud, rambunctious noise explosion of the band’s first two efforts are in for a bit of a surprise. Those who’ve been waiting for Ned’s to get over their angry young men phase, mature a little, and experiment with melody, are in for a treat. “What happened was, when we sat down to write the new album, we decided there were a lot of things we didn’t want to do. The main thing (was to) record another Ned’s Atomic Dustbin album that was typical,” explains lead singer John (no last names, please.)

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The new album is anything but all appear in the new material, and that. A compilation of the best John doesn’t deny listening to eleven songs from over twenty Simon and GarfunkeI and Joni months of song-writing, it reflects Mitchell in his spare time. On the growth within the band. Considercontrast between his own music ing that their sophomore release, and that to which he listens, John Are YOU Normal, was cut in just explains that “one feeds off the over twelve weeks, there has been other. It’s a kind of reaction to what much more time this time around to allow for thought and experimentation. This has led to a tremendous amount of sampling and mixing, something the band never really bothered with before. “One thing we definitely did was to start the.. .songs off with things other than tunes and stuff like the way we have before. All we wanted to do was to start off with an idea of the mood...so the starting points were a little ill ore interesting. Samples obvioulsy came into it a lot more because it’s a new toy fnr us to play with, to sort of like, take the pressure off us writing riffs to begin songs with,” explains John. All I ask of myself is that 1 hold together. This is not to say that Ned’s have grown top heavy. we’re doing...every night of the The distinctive double bassed sound week...we’d been loud, and my ears would be ringing, I’d be that the band has capitalized on is tired cause I’d still there. onlv this time. there is a little - m&e melody. ---_------ &nhasia - ---=--__--on --- ---Hell, some of the new tunes ar *e even hummable. “I think that God Fodder was basicaiiv iust an energy blast. After you’ve done that once, you can’t really afford to do it again. “The second album attempted to be what, this one became. I think we just didn’t have the time to make . . . It that way, and we weren’t mature enough as people or as musicians. I think we’ve finally made the album we wanted to make after five years,” jumped relates John. around a lot...but on The new sound on Bruinbhdvolume is reflective of a top of that, it benefited me to a variety of influences. “Our musical degree cause it taught me a bit more about melody, and a bit more about influences had become exceptionharmony, and while we were makally broad. It was quite a task, reing the noise, I was at least attemptally, to be able to compromise on ing to get some nice tunes going stuff.” This has not turned out to be there.” such a bad thing, however, as it has Ned’s Atomic Dustbin did a allowed for greater variety, experifree concert for CFNY listeners last mentation, and ultimately, a broader Friday as a part of their promoappeal. tional work for the new album. “I Nuances of Pop Will Eat Itself, always look forward to playing in Jane’s Addiction, and Jesus Jones I

Toronto,” commented John before the show. Why such a penchant for their only stop over in Canada? Gushing about a show they played at Ontario Place in the summer of 1993, John declares, “That was a marveiious gig. That goes down with US as possibly the very best show we’ve ever played; definitely in the top five. It was marveilous. “It might seem weird for people to realize, but it is very rare when we come off the stage after the show and everybody in the band says ‘Wolw, that was a great gig,’ or whatever,. But the atmosphere just from the word go that night was absoluteily perfect. We all felt like we’d played well and we all really enjoyed it, it was so fuelied, and then there was that stage invasion at the end, and it just felt like one of those rock and roil moments. Superb...Since that one, it’s been like, someone says to us, ‘Do you want to play in Toronto?’ and it’s like, ‘Do we‘?!“’ For a band that has made its reputation largely on its live performance, even a less than average show should not disappoint too much. Starting on the 0 f‘f i c i ;i I North American tour in thts first week of May and going steady t-or six and a half weeks. 1he band can be tfxpetted back in ‘I‘oJ-OIltl, this

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he truth is, I wanted to hate this book. I’ve only been at Imprint a few weeks, and so far I’ve had only positive topics. I’ve been craving the chance to write a negative and sarcastic review and 1 hoped that after reading The Soloist, opportunity would come pounding at the _ office-door. But un- 1 fortunately, I dis covered a haunt& 2nd satisfying novel. Sadly, I rcalizc that this book dots not dcscrvc my cyni31 commentary after all. Reinhar Sundheimer is The Sulois&* Once a brilIi ant prodigy, Rcinhart spent his childhood travelling the world . and playing cello m packed concert halls. But suddenly, at the age of eighteen, the cellist lost his gift due to an obsessive sense of pitch that ruined his playing. Now, he is thirty-ftve and giving cello lessons at a California university, still practising for hours a day in the hopes that his gift will return. Reinhart is a stiff intellectual, a thinker, a virgin. Because of his peculiar childhood and an overbearing mother, he has always had difficulty relating to people, especially women. Reihart begins jury duty for a murder trial, and at the same time teaches a small boy des-

tined to be a world-class musician. The story follows Reinhart as he is drawn into the lives of his prodigy Kyung-hee and his Korean family, and of the members of the court, especially an enchanting co-juror named Maria-Teresa. TCze Soloist is like a diamond, multi-faceted but solid and real. Salzman’s words are clear and blunt, and he chooses them well. Occasionally, the effective style wavers for a moment, as when be uses a bland cliche and describes Kyungbee’s eyes as being “round as saucers.” But this happens only rarely, and is compensated for with savor-v

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he Dining Room is a collection of vignettes that take place in various people’s dining rooms. The Dining Room set symbolically represents all thevar-ying dining rooms. The play opens with a man considering buying a house , however, the scene promptly switches to that of two siblings dividing the belonging of their mother’s house. The play continues on in this fashion, switching from scene to scene as new characters are introduced. The timeframe depicted in this play ranges from the thirties to the nineties and everything from a children’s birthday party to a father telling his son that his funeral plans are covered. The cast of six does a remarkable job, especially considering that three of them doubled as directors. They slide effortlessly from character to character and scene to scene. They go from being lovers to children to various professional occupations and servants with a

dizzying speed, yet there are no “down” moments in this play and no awkward pauses or breaks. The tone of this play ranges from quite serious to hilarious, covering everything in bctwecn as well. A scene involving an architect and

refers to a previous one) who end up providing professional services for each other - even though it is only the architect who is officially supposed to be working - was very strong and special note should go to Dylan Roberts who played the psychiatrist. As well, one scene in-

volving the attempted seduction of a repairman (by Stephanie McCarthy, who also starred in Oleanna) under the dining room table was extremely amusing. There were, as stated, some scenes on the more serious side. The last vignette of the first act was about a family trying to aid their aging mother who could no longer remember any of them, or the fact she was no longer a young girl. As effective at drama and they are at comedy, the cast convincingly brought across the pain felt by the family. Another scene with Penney Shore as a woman trying to put her life back together and bridge the generation gap between her and her father is poignantly done. Technically the play was very simple executed without err. The tasteful set was the plays strong point consisting of a dining room set with all the fixings -gnfigure!as welt as an abstract painting, with floral arrangements which helped give the overall impression of”wcll to doncss.” Although a bit confusing at first, this was a very well done play and is well worth seeing.

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If you believe the hype, then the Archers of Loaf are striving to be the next indie band to grab the golden ring. Their debut album, icky Mettle, was excellent, and they followed that up with a great EP Vs. The Greatest of All Time. Vee Vee is supposed to be the album that puts them over the top. This album is a great improvement over their earlier efforts, but it probably won’t be the commercial success everybody is dreaming of. The album is far more focused than their rougher previous efforts. They place more effort into the softer, melodic tunes than the straightahead noise rockers. This is a curious move as it was those harder songs that were the highlights of their earlier albums. Because of this shift in.focus, the album was initially disappointing. Once I had a chance to really listen toVee Vee a few times though, I realized this was a great piece of music. The more quiet songs stand up better over a long period of time. I must admit that I’ve grown tired of Icky Mettle save for a couple of tracks. This album will have more legs due to the emphasis on the more melodic tracks. The band is just beginning to realize how to manipulate the listener. “Greatest of All Time,” “Death in the Park,” and “Floating Friends” are very simple songs but they grab you with their melodies. The band knows that there are other

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Sebadoh’sBakesale was by far the best album of 1994 for this critic. With an album of such high calibre, it is only natural for singles to appear. For listenability, great cynical lyrics, and the sheer honesty of this recording ,the Rebound single gets top marks. Sebadoh’s latest single is a perfect companion piece to Bakesale, Rebound serves up the album track as well as an acoustic version which gives Lou Barlow the opportunity to strip down from the fuzz of gui-

ways of hooking their audience without simply laying down a good beat and rocking away. The album opens with a dirge called “Step Into The Light” which is a reference to the growing amount of press this band is receiving. On this song the Loaf makes the effort to do some harmonizing and it works excellently. They also have started to experiment with other instruments in an effort to diversify their sound. The last song on the album, “Underachievers March and Fight Song,” features a banjo and trumpet playing some very catchy chord progressions. On “Nevermind the Enemy” they place a sample of a truck backing up in their stop-andstart opening. It’s a marvellous, and an appropriate effect, once you realize what the sound is. They haven’t departed from their earlier efforts completely though. The first single, “Harnessed in Slums,” is a smoking anthem for today’s teenagers. Along with “Nostalgia,” it gives some unpolished excitement to the album. The band doesn’t put much effort into cleaning up their playing. They play very loosely but it gives the album an intimate feel. Drummer Mark Price offers a solid foundation and Matt Gentling can create some great guitar noise, The band is not a group of virtuosos though. The only real notable is Eric Bachmann’s voice. He proves once again that emotion stands out over technique in this game. While they aren’t the best of bands from a technical standpoint, the Archers of Loaf have crafted a fine album. It might not be the commercial success everybody is hoping for, but it is superb. tar, bass and drums bearing the nakedness of the song with a crisp clean sound. Keeping up the cynicism on “Social Medicine” provides as one of the b-sides which could have easily been found onBakes&. The other b-side, “Oh Fire,” is another acoustic offering from Barlow which delves deep into his cynical outlook of the world. “Oh Fire” relies on intelligent lyrics, making the music secondary. Talking about 1 relationships is the basis of a lot of songwriters, but Barlow’s honesty about it separates him from most music out there. An acoustic version of “Magnet’s Coil” from Bakesule is included on this single, which again comes off in stunning fashion. Rebound is worth every penny.

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It seems that everyone and their brother is combining samples, industrial ti noisks, rap, distorted chanting and singing, and dance grooves into some sort of alternative mix. - w--amr.%v . *-- ----- - Y- v-csame heavy handed, dancefloor knioyment 1 for the alternatiie crowd. This time out the merger of industrial meeting heavy metal and hip hop works well for “p ani coming band Dink. 7’6s five piece band from Ohio manages to borrow samples from artists as diverse as Consolidated and Jimi Hendrix, and to mix them 1 into an exciting, experimamt*l Ilbl

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I had the opportunity to see Face to Face’s live show before I’d ever heard their music. They put on a wildly energetic show. For that reason this album initially put me off, as it failed to capture the essence of the group’s live sound. As I analyzed further the album really grew on me. This isn’t exactly groundbreaking music. It’s pretty standard California punk. Their thank you list is a who’s who of Epitaph records and the album was produced by none other thanoffspring’s producer, Thorn Wilson. Wilson does an excellent job with this record. The guitars are nicely textured so that there are rough edges without them being grating. His choice to add a slight echo to Trever Keith’s voice is a nice effect. II adds an extra sense of isolation that accompanies the themes to most of the band’s songs. Like most of the latest crop of

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punk stars, the song’s topics stick mainly with the feelings experienced by today’s disaffected teenagers, They don’t mine any new ground. What they do is perfectly snag the listener with a virtual carnival of pop hooks. This band knows exactly how to write a great pop punk song. I find it nearly impossible to complain about their songwriting craft. While they rarely stray from the formula they choose, even after thirteen songs it never grows old. Each song has a quick beat, a snappy riff, and easy-to-learn-and-sing lyrics. I found I knew the chorus to each song by the time I finished listening to it once. These songs just stick in your head. They registered a 10 out of IO on my catchyo-meter. This is due to fhe great vocal melodies in the choruses. The best examples of these occur in the songs “A-OK, ” “Debt,” and “It’s Keith’s opening wail Not Over.” really grabs you on this last tune. Every

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“Dirt” and the Dave Ogilvie produced “The Heroin Song.” Unfortunately Dink does not provide iny new insight into this expand* ing ienre of music. This is where their major label debut falls a bit short. But really, who cares? It sounds good on the dancefloor and for most people that’s what really counts. As some guy on American Bandstand once said “lt has a good beat and I can dance to it. 1 like it.” Dink provides an enjoyable album of altemo-music. Pick it up and listen to some dancefloor music for the nineties.

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swings easily from the dark and heavy sounds of “The Heroin Song” to the experimental nature of “Urban Suicide,” to the almost electronic sounding techno-pop of “Water,” all the while retaining a high degree of quality writing and musicianship. The majority of the songs stay on the light side of alter-

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An exi:ellent audio-only sampler of Laurie Anderson’s ouevre, The Ugly One with the Jewels contains the essence of Anderson’s present career. I say audio-only because she is much more than a recording artist; she is, as WiReD magazine recently dubbed her, a multin-.ediatrix. I say her present career because her art has taken many different forms over the past twenty years, only now if you resting on “spoken word,” must pigeon-hole it. Anderson’s latest release is a live record:ing of a concert she gave last year in England. The concert featured her alone with her keyboards and samplers, without her characteristic video screens and assortment of backing artists. On The Ugly One with the Jewels, Anderson tells stories culled from her recent book, Stories from the Nerve Bible, a compendium of her artistic: career. Ranging from adventures at the north pole, to personal memories of childhood, this reIease neatly sums Anderson’s thoughts on present day culture and time in general. The Ugly One with the Jewels is an excellent exploration of both popular culture and Anderson’s understanding of it. The only problem is, one e you’ve listened to the disc a few times, you will have heard

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by sandy Imprint

Atwal staff

Along with the initial Sonic Youth ep., these three albums represent what is arguably some of Sonic Youth’s least accessible material. The quantum leap towards actual songs such as “Goo” or “Bull in the Heather” was years away when the band first came together Through two re-releases by Geffen and one by Rhino, the genre bending excursions by the Sonics is now available for the truly brave. Confusion is Sex, Sonic Youth’s first album proper is a lo-fi introduction to the early eighties art-rock scene. Alongside more ambient works like “(She’s in a) Bad Mood” which represents SY at its most menacing, are primal screams like Kim Gordon’s unforgettable shriek/sing version of the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” However, even in their earliest incarnation, there were hints that Sonic Youth could successfully bend their musical vision close enough towards the mainstream to eventually produce something similar to what we today call “songs.”

The title track for their first album displays a hint of the song structures that Sonic Youth fully realized on albums like Sister and Daydream Nuliop1. The combination of bizarre guitar tunings and Thurston Moore’s speak/singing shows how SY moved from atonal white noise towards a slightly more tuneful white noise. Mude in USA is a never-before-released soundtrack to a 1986 (straight-to-video) movie of the same title. Although there are twenty-three tracks on the album, the whole thing clocks in a just under fourty-four minutes. Obviously, at an average of two minutes a track, there’s plenty of ambient filler -the kind Sonic Youth is good at. Four tracks here, with titles ranging from

“Secret Girl” to “O.J.‘s Glove or What?” are simply different versions of Evul’s “Shadow of a Doubt” while tracks three and eighteen are just the sound of an amplifier being dropped. So far, a diehard collector’s piece at best. Fortunately, track six, “Tuck N Dar” is a good single, not worth the whole CD if you’re a casual fan, but worth taping. Unfortunately, variations on “Tuck N Dar” appear on the rest of the CD another four times. For fans, there’s enough soundscaping and experimentation on Made in USA to warrant hunting it down, but you’ve been warned. The Whitey Album is a product of Ciccone Youth, essentially Sonic Youth with fIREHOSE’s Mike Watt and Dinosaur Jr.‘s

albums, The Whitey Album fails on two counts. First of all, covers of Madonna’s “Into the Groove” (re-titled “Into the Groovey”) and Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” are funny, but don’t stand up to repeated listens. Secondly, much of the rest of the album is erratic even by Sonic: Youth’s standards. The second track “(silence)” is just over a minute of. + silence! Ha., ha, ha, ha, heh, heh, hmmmm. As always, a few songs do tnanage to shine through all of this shit. The most interesting of these is “Macbeth” which is a live drum track backed up with some menacing feedback. The juxtaposition of the drums (very eighties) with the guitar squeals (very Sonic Youth) might be the highlight of the album for some fans. The funny thing is, the previous track, “Platoon II” is just a cheesy “funky drummer” track over a boring squeal of feedback. The similarities are bizarre, considering the fact that one song sucks and the other one rocks. Supposedly, it is o.ne of Sonic Youth’s goals to eventually cover The Beatles’ The White Album. Whether this is just a rumour perpetuated after an off-hand comment by one of the band members or not, it certainly makes for fascinating conjecture. What makes the idea of covering The White Album so fascinating is evident on these three albums. Although the band is grounded in popular music, they are genre benders who have made a career out of doing something different and doing it better. Sonic Youth, along with many other bands from the late seventies and early eighties, are largely responsible for building onto the pop conventions of the Beatles. If their experiments aren’t always successful, they can be easily forgiven,

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yes, the Waltons do have some songwriting abilities, and and even

a few insights to offer, the overall blandness of the package in which these wisdoms are enclosed is rather by Natalie Gllis Imprint staff

by Brad Imprint

Hughes staff

The Ex-Idols first gained exposure in the summer of ‘93 when Detl-li Is magazine featured them in an article about the death of L.A.‘s strip. They haven’t been heard from since until now. An apparent x-tooling of the band was needed as even they admitted in Details, “Seattle killed the strip. There were all these bands here that thought it was alright to still be Poison. And then these bands came along and made all these fake, shallow L.A. bands look totally ridiculous.” The song topics on this album do deal with a more serious side of life. “Requiem” is about a girl on the streets who dies young. Suicide is the theme of “Kind of a Sid & Nancy Song.” Interestingly “My Song” is about artistic compromise. It details the pressure of record executives who try alter the band’s It fails to relate how the music.

band has changed becauseofseattle though. These are exceptions as most of the album is about broken relationships. It shows that while they’ve taken the lessons learned from their experiences, they still haven’t wandered f+ar from what they know best. You can still hear the influences of L.A. in their music. The music is very focused; the tracks rarely stray past the three minute mark. The band has an ear for recognizing great licks and not milking them’till they’re tired. This keeps the album consistently catchy. The problem is that the songs don’t stay with you after they’re done. The hooks of each song disappear after the song has ended. There is this lack of energy that causes the album to fail to gain momentum. The only song that really stands out with excessive energy is “Kind of a Sid & Nancy Song.” The album is frustrating that way. It contains most of what you could ask for in an album but you just don’t get anything out of it. You can hear the band’s talent but they don’t use it correctly. It’s a bit disappointing. ‘Hopefully they can use their talents better next time:

If you liked the Walton’s first release, Lik My Trakter, you’ fl love Cock’s Crow. It sounds exactly the same. Laughing in the face of musical growth and exploration, the Waltons have stuck with the tried (and true?) recipe of candy-coated pop melodies and sticky-sweet harmonies. It works for the first thirty seconds or so, until you realize that you’ve been completely ripped off: for the same effect, you could have saved yourself twenty bucks and thrown on their debut. Although tracks like “The Longest Line”and “Michelangelo’s Tummy” will attest to the fact that,

by Greg Imprint

Hood-Morris staff

Although it is not normally the policy of this paper to review singles (not this year anyway), these two singles just cried out for attention, being two of the best (and least appreciated) bands to come out of the U.K. in the past year. Due to their inherent greatness, they are receiving some attention, but neither band has released an album, so this is tl le nearest excuse

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we have to restore the mighty singles’ place in the Imprint. First the Supergrass, new Mods out of Oxford who were once a shoegazing band called the Jennifers. First reaction: “Whoa, hang on! have we accidently put on an early Blur B-side by mistake? Is this some great lost Who track, recorded in about 1966, somewhere between “The Kids Are Alright,” and “I Can See for Miles?” Oh yeah, and they must have had the levels really high, ‘cause it’s chock full o’ distortion. But in a good way, a melodic, punchy type of way. We are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods??!? A d amned fine single. Now, kidlings, on to the meat’n’gravy. This is what I- and

Waxing and Electrolysis. In the privacy of my home, closetothe university, high-techequipment,reasonable prices, certified electrologist. 747-5827. Voice lessons: Kimberley Enns-Hildebrand, B. Mus., Op.Dip., M. Mus., experiencedteacherlcoachlperformer has openings beginning April, 1995. Beginner to Advanced welcome. Call 742-7599, leave message. New and used vehicles; trade in to trade up. Ask for

a dev8bfMIIenk3l delay. Must have experience. Minimum 8 month committment. Send resume to Donald Mader, K-W Habilitation Services, 479 Boettger Place, Waterloo, OntarioN2K3N5. Sofhware Capital Available. Seed capital available for promising new software package(s). Fax resume and brief description d business plan to Charleswood Capital (416) 504-0455 Exotic DancersNeeded - Earn up to $2,000.00 weekly, will train in a clean safe environment. Talk to us first before you decide, physical contact not permitted. Call Ralph dr Ron at 744-6367. Masseuse/Masseur. If you consider yourself a hard worker, punctual, and well groomed, we invite you to our establishment. Minimum experience required. Exclusive client& Phone 885-2! 51. Is yourhard work worth more than $20.OO/hr? Summer employment. Ability to pay your tuition in less than a month. Motivated, energetic, self starters required. Full training provided. Call: St. Cathetines(905) 356-2291 or Joanne in Toronto at (416) 221-3470.

every Imprint reviewer is here to do- to try and take over your free will, and persuade you to buy, buy Buy!! Oh yes, Sleeper is a hell of a band. “Inbetweener” is that kind of single that you listen to straight for two weeks, singing at the top of your lungs and driving your roommates insane. It combines the frisky energy of Elastica, with the social commentary of a youthful Ray Davies“she goes to a restaurant and smiles at the waiter, he winks to his friends and they laugh at her later.” Typical 1995 loser mentality single? No way, because the tune is so irrepressibly chirpy and upbeat that you can’t put it down. At least not until you get absolutely sick of it.

entertainment and meet students from all over Ontario? OnlyatWildemessTours! June3&4,1995. Call l-800267-9166 and ask about our University Weekend discount.

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Rooms for five Women in lovely licensed lodging house. Close to both universities. Laundry, parking. $285 plus utilities. Summer negotiable. Call 885-2908 Available September 95 - Furnished rooms in clean house. $300 - $350 including utilities, cable, washed dryer. IO minute walk to U of W. Call 725-7624. Summer 95 - 5 bedroom house available in charming uptown Waterloo area. Parking for4, wmonth. 8887377. 3 Bedroom house available fbr rent, launclry, parking, reasonablerent,callJames747-0683orwork884-9000, 4 Bedroom Apt. $24Q/room (neg.) 2 min. walk to UW. Call Eva, Shannon 886-5932. House for rent, four bedrooms, clean, roomy, 4 appliances. Close to Universities, $1320 per month plus utilities,

Numus Concerts presents Propeller Head Hannon & Kucharzyk, Friday March 318:oO p.m. at The Seagram Museum. High tech, weird, classical music. V$udent rush tickets call 576-6211. WildemessTourslJniversiQ Rafting Weekend. Where else can you raft, bungee jump, trail ride, kapk, play beach volleyball, hot-tub, dance, feast, enjoy camp fire

woda (of Rheostatics and Barenaked Ladies fame,) and it is rather surprising that such an unoriginal work could be spewed forth under his guidance. However, the fact that Woiewoda himself couldn’t salvage this garbage confirms the worthlessness of this musical drivel. Of course, Cock’s Crow will no doubt be touted by CFNY and company, but don’t let this fool you into buying the album. This time around, even the patronage of a bunch of overzealous, self important DJ’s is not enough to turn this album into a good release. Toquote the Waltons themselves, “I’m trapped/In between long ago and yesterday/Too proud and set in my ways to leave/We’ 11never leave...” If we can’t expect anything even remotely new or experimental from this band, I think 1’11 be moving along.

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Come celebrate the end of term at the CrossroadsCoffeehouse in the Huether Hotel upstairs. Festivities begin at 8:00 p.m. Only $3. Proceeds go to Canadian Crossroads International, K-W Committee. UW Stage Band. Michael W&, directorat Conrad Grebel College, Great Hall {Room 1561, Waterloo Ont. at 8:00 p.m. The UW Native Students Association is presenting “Spirit of Turtle Island”, a Native arts and craft show. This event takes place in the main foyer of the Davis Centre from 12100noon - 4:OCto.m. Canadian Federation of University Women IS holding a Used Book Sale today, from 1200 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. 1:OO p.m. at Hilliard Hall, First United Church, King and William streets. A special Children’s Book Section and sale of Special Books ~111be held at 2:OO p.m, Experience Gluttony and Hunger in every cornerofthewotldinoneevening! Picturefor a moment... you arriveat Emmanuel United Churchindowntown. Asof6:30p.m.youare grantedanotheridentity. Howwillyourmeals thrs evening compare? The evening will be filled with Interactive and thought provoking activities focusing of global food inequities. Following the dinner, activities and discussion, a coffeehouse will be held upstairs at the Huether Hotel. Proceeds will go to the local chapter of Canadian Crossroads International. Ticket price is $10 for waged, and $7 for unwaged. Tickets can be purchased at the Global Community Center, 89-91 King St. N. (746-4090), or at the door. For information pleasecall 725-9321. Anonymous - The Early MUSICEnsemble is back. With repertoire from the 14th century. Selections by Philippe de Bitry, Jacopo da Bologna, Francesco Landini, Guillarme de Machaut and of course Anonymous. Concert starts at 8:00 p.m. at the KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young Street West. For information call 886-l 673.

Saturday,

April

GLLOW DISCUSSION GROUP. “LesBiGay Issues in the Educational System”. 730 p.m. in ML 104. All lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people, gays and other supportive people welcome. Details: 8844569.

Wednesday,

April 5

Kitchener Blood Donor Clinic. St. tuke’s Lutheran Church, 317 Franklin St. N. from 1:30 p.m. to800 p.m. Positive Identification Required. For information call 7446198.

Thursday,

April

UW Film SocietyTaiwan Festival -“Banana Paradise” will be shown at 7:OO p.m. in UW East Campus Hall room 1219. For more information call 885-l 211 extension 2442,

Friday,

April

ThelntemationalConnectionsWorking Group invites any interested members of the UniVersitymmmunitytoattendanOpenMeeting regarding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for international activities at the University of Waterloo. The meeting will be from 200 - 400 p.m. in NH 3004. Contact P. O’Neill, International Programs OiTice, ext. 2288 for further information or comments.

Saturday,

April

Applications for the following scholarships are being accepted during the Winter term. Refer to Section 4 of the Undergraduate Calendarforfurthercrite; ria. Application forms are available inthe Student Awards Office, 2nd Floor, Needles Hall.

ALL

FACULTIES:

DouglasT. Wright Award -available to all who have participated in an international work placement. Students to apply upon return to full-time study at UW. Deadline: October 13,1995. Douglas T. Wright Experience in Japan Award - available to all who participated in a work placement in Japan. Students to apply upon return to full-time study at UW. Deadline: October 13, 1995.

FACULTY HEALTH

OFAPPLIED SCIENCES:

Robert Haworth Scholarship - completion of 3rd year in an Honours program in Resource Management related to Park Planning and Management, Recreation, Natural Heritage or Outdoor Recreation. Deadline: May 31, 1995.

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Dr. Eric Burnett. S.C. Johnson & Son ltd. Environmental Scholarship - available to 3rd year Chemical, Deadline: May 31,1995. Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship -available to 3B Civil - Water Resource Management students. Deadline; May 31, 1995. Alan W. Shattuck Memorial Bursary available to 4th year Civil. Suncor Bursaries - available to all Chemical or Mechanical.

FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: Robert Haworth Scholarship - completion of 3rd year in an Honours program in Resource Management related to Park Planning and Management, Recreation, Natural Heritage or Ou tdoor Recreation. Deadline: May 31, 1995. Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship -available to 3rd year Environment & Resource Studies, Planning, Water Resource Management. Deadline: May 31, 1995.

FACULTY

OF SCIENCE:

J.P. Bickell

J.P. Bickell Foundation Bursaries available to all Chemical students. Canadian PostureandSeating Centre Scholarship -available toall. Deadline: October 13,1995. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Award - available to all Civil and Mechanical students with an interest in Building Science. Students to contact

Foundation Bursaries available to upper year Earth Sciences. S.C. Johnson & Son Ltd. Environmental Scholarship - available to 3rd year Chemistry. Deadline: May 31,1995. Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship -available to 38 Earth Science/Water Resource Management. Deadline: May31, 1995. Science Society Bursary - available to all.

Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Regional Branch. Friends, a service of CMHA, needs volunteers: to support children in one to one relationships, assist children in developing selfesteem and social skills. A child meets with theirvolunteer weekly during school time to do social activities. Urgently needed in schools throughout KitchenerWaterloo, Cambridgeand area. Call 7447645. Foreign Translation Registry. The International Student Off ice receives inquiries from time to time requiring the assistance of individuals who can speak, write and translate a particular language. If you are interested in providing this senrice, please contact Darlene Ryan, ext. 2814. Be A Big Brother It’s Fun! It’s Easy! Call us todav. 579-3150. Office Assistants are currently being recruited by the City of Waterloo Volunteer Service to work in an office wifh such duties as answering the telephone, taking messages, assisting the public. Computer skills are an asset. Thevolunteer must be willing to give a one year commitment. For more info call 5791196. Canada Day Volunteers Needed. Gain experience. Have fun. Be ace-ordinator for Canada Day. Co-ordinators needed for programming, candle sales, volunteer management, bookkeeping, etc. Come to Fed office for info: CC 710. The Sl-lADOW (Student Hosts and Designates of Waterloo) Program helps international students adjust to life in Canada. The program matches new international students with a University of Waterloo student who has been at the university for at least one year. Stu-

dents interested in volunteering for the Spring and Fall term can fill out an application form at the International Student Office. For more information contact Darlene Ryan, extension 2814. K-W Host Family Program. The International Student Office (ISO) has a Host Family Program, designed to help international students learn somethingof the culture of Canada by spending time with a Canadian family. Drop by the International Student Office, NH 2080 to sign up, or a brochure can be sent to you by calling Darlene Ryan, extension 2814. English tutors are needed to tutor international students on a one-to-one basis in oral and written English. This is a one term commitment. If you have a good working knowledge of English, are patient, friendly, dependable, and would like tovolunteer, register at the International Students Office, NH 2080, or call Darlene Ryan, extension 2814 for more information. We Need Big Sisters. Are you 20? We need you! Are you 30? We need you! Are you 40? We need you! Are you 50? We need you! If you are 20 years of age or older and feel you can make a positive difference in a child’s life, KitchenerWaterloo and area Big Sisters needs you. Female volunteers are required to develop one-on-one relationships with girls (aged 4-17) and boys (aged 4-11) years. You are required to provide 3 hours a week with a child for a minimum of one year from the time your relationship with the child is established. All volunteers are required to complete an orientation training session prior to acceptance as a Big Sister volunteer. Our next three training sessions commence April 4 & 5 or May 2 83 or June 6 & 7, 1995. Please call 743-5206 to register.

St. Lawrence String Quartet. Advance purchase or reservation is recommended for this justly famed ensemble. Concert starts at8:00p.m.attheKWCMSMusicRoom,57 Young Street West, Waterloo. For information call 886-l 673. Sweeping Clean - The Schneiders will be doingtheirspring hwsecleaningfromatticto cellar today and tomorrow. There will be a Pysanky Workshops (Ukranian Easter Egg Decorating)throughoutbothdays. Thecoast is $2.OOand pre-registration is required. The minimum age for the Pysanky Workshop is 9years. Pysanky will be on sale throughout the weekend. Chamber Choir. Kenneth Hull, director. Concert starts at 8100 p.m. in St. John’s Lutheran Church. 22 Willow St.

Tuesday,

Shzholarship No+ices

TheWritersCraftWorkshop. TheCanadian Authors Association invites you to learn about the writer’s craft from published authors. Everyone welcome -both the novice writer and the “expert”. The workshop is being heMintheCouncilChambers, Kitchener City Hall. Doors open at 9:30a.m., morning sessionsarefrom 10:OOa.m. to 12:15p.m., and afternoon sessions are from 1 :I 5 p.m. to 4:tS p.m. Registration takes place at the door. For more information call 578-3398.

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The following are deadlines for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Competitions in the University Graduate Office. Further information and documentation are available from the University Graduate Office or from the Department Scholarship Coordinator. Earlier department deadlines are applicable. Please note as well that many other scholarships have agency deadlines in the Winter Term 1995. Information is available in the University Undergraduate Off ice, Nee-

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dles Hall. Room 3021, National Research Council Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering -physics, mathematics andengineering disdiplines. Deadline is April $0, 1995. CIDA Awards for Canadians - unrestricted discipline. Deadline is May 19, 1995. University of Waterloo/Graduate Student Association Day Care - unrestricted discipline. Deadline is May 15, 1995.

MONDAY Interested in Outdoor activities? Join the Outers Club, which offers weekly activities, andequipment rentals (at reasonable rates). Weekly meetings at 7:00 p.m. in ES1 350. For more information contact Fabrice at ext. 4655. Students For Life, a pro-life group, meets every week at 23Op.m. in Environmental Studies Rm 350. SDeak UD for the silent!

TUESDAY Waterloo Christian Fellowship, a non-denominational Christian group, holds large group meetings from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. in Engineering 2, Room 1303A. There issinging, guest speakers, Bible studres and fellowship. For more information, contact wcf Qwatservl . All are welcome.

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sity of Waterloo Group) meets at 7:00 p.m. everyweekin AL202. Amnesty lntemational is dedicated to helping Prisoners of Conscience around the world. All Are Welcome. Womyn’s CentreCollective meetings 1230 in Womyn’s Centre Room. Room 1506. Interfaith Brown-Bag Lunch Forum M&C 1056. 12130 p.m. - 130 p.m. ChristiansPreachingChrist-GospelMeeting 700 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. El 1052. Come and listen. All Welcome! “Whilewe were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 518

THURSDAY Ukrainian StudentsClub welcomeseveryone to experience Ukrainian culture and Heritage. We meet in MC 3001 (Math Lounge) at 5:45 p.m. Call Martin Kuchirkaat 747-DO-IT for more information. Jewish Students Association - Bagel Brunches are held from 11:30 - I:30 in ELI 06. Come out and meet everyone!

FRlDAY Salat-ul-Jumuaa (Friday prayer) in M&C 2035. 12:30 p.m. - I:00 p.m.

SUNDAY

The University of Waterloo Young Liberals meetfordiscussion every other Wednesday (first meeting on January 1I) at 4:00 in the SJCstudent Union lounge netitothecoffee Shop. All are welcome. FYI call Suzana at ?444?R17. GLLOW (Gay and Lesbian Liberation of Waterloo) holds a Coming Out Discussion Group at 7:30 pm in ML 104. Call 8844569 for information and a list of upcoming topics. Amnesty InternationalGroup 118(Univer-

Worship inthechapelof St. Bede Renison College University of Waterloo. Sundays at 10130 a.m. beginning Sunday January 8, 1995. “Radio Arab Carlo” on CKMS 100.3 FM. Tune in every Sunday at 4:30 p.m. or better yet call us during the program, and tell your host Firas Johnny Abed Rabbo what you would like to hear. “Arabic music is what we do.”

Ifyou wish tovolunteerwith Campus MediaSonpleasecontact885-1211 extension2306. Membersome Engineering FacultyCouncilfor 1995: It is anticipatedthat the Engineering Faculty Council will meet on the following dates: April 17, May 29, June 26, Septem‘ber 18, October 16, November20, December 11. All meetings will be held at 3:30 p.m. in CPH 3385. TheTOEFLPreperatiinCoursebeginsApril 4. Classes are held every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. for IO weeks. Contact the International Student Office ext. 2814for more information. 1995 Student Handbook Editor needed. This position will run for both Winter and Spring ‘95 terms, ideally but not necessarily staffed by thesameindividual. For more info call Lynne Sosnowski, Fed. of Students, ext. 4042. Attention Business 111 W Students. The time and location of your final exam is incorrect on the University of Waterloo final exam schedule. It will in fact be held April 10th at 6:30 p.m. at WLU. DukeStreetClinic. Allservicesarefreeand confidenti. Staffed by public healthnurses. HIV (AIDS) testing, Hepatitis 6 vaccine, condoms, drug info, safer sex info, referrals. Drop in between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. every Thursday at ACCKWA, 123 Duke Street East, Kitchener. Food Security Week. Plan to attend the many events being heldthroughout Waterloo Regionfrom March 28toApril7. “Film Night” March28at7:15inKitchenerPublicLibrary. “Information Night”230 -4:30 p.m. or 7:00 900 p.m. at Community Health and Social SerQces,99ReginaStreet,Room508. “Community Forum: Putting an End to Hunger: A Forum on Food Security in Waterlm Region” April 6 from 8:30 - 4:30 Community Health and Social Services, 99 ReginaStreet, Room 508. “Public Displays” keepyoureyesopen for public displays in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge on Saturday April 1st. Calling All Residents - Recycle Your Old Bell Telephone Books! The Regionof Waterloo’s Waste Reduction Office would like to remind area residents that Bell Canada telephone books continue to be recyclable in the Blue Box Program. Residents with Blue Boxes are asked to set their old telephone booksoutatthecurb, baggedorbundledwith newspaper and placed beside or on top of their Blue Box. For more information conract the Waste Reduction Office at 883-5118. The IODE Gladys Raiter Bursary Provincial Chapteroffntario IODE. ABursaryforone year of full time post-graduate study in Canada. Awarded annually on the basis of academic standing and financial need. Approximate value of $3,500.00. Deadline for receipt of application &April 15,1995. Application forms are available by writing: Provincial Chapter of Ontario IODE, 1070 Main Street West 28, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 1B4. Information is also available from the

Graduateofficeorbycalling (905) 522-9537 or (519) 742-7758. UW SAA is awarding $500 to a full-time UW student for extracurricular involvement. Candidate must be entering4th year in 1995. Please contact SAA: 888-4626 or Gwen G raper extensbn 2969. Application Ueabline: Friday June 30,1995. Planned Parenthood is intorducing an expanded facts of life line to answer the many questionsaboutsexualityand sexual health. Dial 1-800.INFO-SEX (463-6739) tolisten to any of 64 recorded messages. For more information call Donna Randall 743-9360. The Federation of Students offices have now moved! NO room numbers areavailable yet but the offices are now located on the Ring Road side of the Campus Centre. Access is currently only available through theformerCC 110. AskattheTumkey Desk for directions. The Music Source, the Fed record store, is havingablowoutsale! Alltapesare5O%off, all CD’s are discounted. The sale will last through until all stock is gone. The Music source is Iocated in the bottom floor of the new student centre. In co+eration with the Canadian Labour Congress and affiliated local unions the Workers Health and Safety Centre has assisted inco-ordinating the Waterloo Regional Council’s annual “Day of Mourning” activities. The purpose of this activity is to bring to the attention of the public the number of workers who die or are injured as a result of workplace accidents and illnesses. The keynote speaker James O’Neil, Secretary Treasurerf0rC.A.W. National Office as well as MP’s, MPP’s, Mayors and the Labour Council President will be at Riverside Park, Cambridge on Friday April 28, 1995 from 1030 a.m. A social gathering will be held at the CA.W. Local 1986 Half, 887 Lang’s Drive,Cambtidgefolbwingthe”DayofMouming” services. For information contact Mike Finn at 519-650-3623, Waterloo Regional LabourCouncil. Thursday April2Oth. The K-W Cambridge Guelph Humanists will host adebateon The Ethics of Abortion, with Joan Toogood from C.A.R.A.L. as guest speaker. Meeting to be heldattheConestogaRoomoftheKitchener City Hall at 7:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Refreshments. For more information call Guelph 824-6577 or Kiichener 893-l 449. Homer Watson t-louse & Gallery. Art Classes and Workshops have started for Spring 1995. Attend classes on: Garden Sculpture, Introduction to Watercolour, Basic Drawing, Watercolour: Beyond the Basics, Art in the Home: Decorative Painting, Drawing the Natural World: Trees, Plants & Flowers, Introduction to Chair Caning. Attend Exhibitions, and meet the artists. Attend Special Events such as: Annual Bus Trip, Homer Watson Lecture, At Home with the Watsons, Free Family Fun Days. For more information call 748-4377.

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