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Federation of Students President meets with NDP by James Russell ImpriIIt staff n Tuesday, May 9, Jane Pak, President of the Fed eration of Students, met with Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Mike Farnan. Farnan is currently the NDP MPP for Cambridge, and is seeking x-election. Farnan has also been the Minister of Education which is the main reason Pak sought such a meeting. Pak was accompanied by Xander Le Roy, Senior Officer of Academic Affairs, and Brad Ross, Vice-President, University Affairs at Laurier. The first question Pak asked was about the significance of education in this election. Farnan quickly conceded that the importance was small, but quickly launched into a lengthy explanation of the NDP policy for the last few years. “Look-at the way this government has performed,” said Farnan, when asked what the future holds. “You can expect more of the same.” He explained that the NDP is committed to three ideals, those being to protect jobs, protect services, and to “live within our means.” He also spent some time bashing the opponent parties, a trend that continued throughout the meeting. “We were ambushed by history,” he said, saying that the NDP has had to deal with several difficult and unpleasant issues such as unfair funding from the federal government (e.g. Ontario receives a $0.29 subsidy for every dollar spent on welfare. This is the lowest subsidy in the country,
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40,000 public sector jobs and losing the services that go with them. Farnan explained that between 1980 and 1990, the cost of government increased 11% per annum, due to “all the expensive programs the Liberals and Conservatives put in place.” “Thank God we were there,” said Farnan. Despite the fact that decisions the NDP made caused “a lot of grief with our friends in the public sector unions,” Farnan explained that if nothing had been done, the deficit would have been approximately $17 billion, in-
stead of the $9 billion it is at currently. According to Farnan, Bob Rae plans to steadily continue his efforts to acheive the three objectives stated earlier, while slowly eroding the deficit. He hasn’t made any new promises presumably because his old ones are still good. Faman
politicians. criticized Provincial Liberal Leader Lyn McLeod, saying her 143 promises will cost hundreds of millions, and she plans on cutting taxes at the same time. “She is a woman who is able to suck and blow at the same time,” said Faman. Farnan addressed university-specific issues in the latter half of the meeting. Despite his time as Minister of Education, he did not seem well informed. When asked what part the government should have in setting tuition fees, he replied *‘I think it is important that the province play a role.”
He said that Provincial Progressive Conservative Leader Mike Harris’ plan of cutting $400 million from education was “bound to create an elitist system.” “Accessibility is the name of the game,” said Faman. To aid accessibility, the NDP govemment has limited ancillary fees, which many universities had planned to implement to help cover the cost of non-academic services (e.g. Health and Safety, Athletics). However, tuition has also increased while the NDP has been in power. Farnan explained that this was to increase accessibility, as this rise has been at least partly contingent on universities making more spaces available. This idea was “part of the dialogue” between the government and the university presidents, said Famam, adding that the tuition increases have been far lower than what the university presidents wanted. “You want to make university fees reasonable,” said Faman, adding “You’re getting a great deal...You’re being heavily subsidized.” However, he stressed that post-secondary education was something that the Premier cares about a great deal. He called universities “probably the most significant investment” for a government that wanted a healthy economy, as university graduates go on to get highly skilled, highpaying jobs. *‘Brain power is the greatest asset,” he said. Jumping back to the deficit briefly, Faman repeated that Rae will look at it, but not dwell over continued m
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with most provinces receiving a $0.50 subsidy), jobs lost to free trade and the recession. He justified the hated “Social Contract,” and the accompanying “Rae days,” saying that the sacrifice of nine unpaid days off for government workers was a better choice than the only alternative, that being cutting
ith all the fanfare and excitement of watch ing paint dry, Xander LeRoy, Senior Vice-President, Academic Affairs, announced the beginning of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) provincial election campaign. &Roy, U W Federation of Students Senior Officer of Academic Affairs, made the announcement on Monday, May 15, in a Campus Centre meeting room. In a brief statement, LeRoy
dent employment. According to LeRoy and OUSA literature, OUSA plans to take a multifaceted approach in its campaigning, identifying three target groups: students, the genera1 public, and election candidates. The work will be divided between OUSA itself andthe individual participating student governments. To target students, OUSA plans a blitz of posters,
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education a priority issue in the upcoming June provincial election. The slogan for OUSA’s campaign is, “When universities work, Ontario works.” OUSA will base its campaign around four issues: student aid, accountability. funding, and stu-
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The centrepiece of OUSA’s campaign for the general public will be advertisements on radio stations. Locally, some 60 radio spots have already been purchased. As well, OWSA is planning TV and newspaper ads, and posters on buses and subways. OUSA is preparing a questionnaire to distribute to candidates. The survey will
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entations, pamI’ - fights Xander phlets, and ad- during his own vertisements in campus publications, radio stations and television stations. The stated aim is to make students aware of their role as stakeholders in the election. +
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by OUSA and delivered to media sources for publication. OUSA will also be operating an “OUSA Action Bus,” which will follow the leaders and travel around the province promoting the OUSA campaign. What this ambitious campaign is going to cost is still unknown, even to the planners. Xander LeRoy was unable to provide any answers on cost, beyond stating that the bill would be divided among the five participating OUSA schools. OUSA Chair Michael Bums had a little clearer idea, putting the price tag somewhere between $lO-15,000. “We’re looking at a fairly modest budget,” commented Burns. At the May 15 campaign announcement, Wilfrid taurier Student Union showed their support by sending Eric Green, a member of their Marketing Department. It is a rare show of unity in a camcontinued
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UW flag heads for space by gieran Green Imprint StaH aterloo may become the first Canadian school to put a flag into outer space. At the request of the Canadian Astronaut Program of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the University of Waterloo submitted two flags. One of the two may be selected to accompany a NASA space mission in the fall If accepted, the flag will be included in the Canadian Govemment kit carried by Canadian astronaut Major Chris A. Hadfield. Hadfield will take off aboard the
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On Friday, March 24 the government eliminated all Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funding for approximately 100 local global education groups, 7 provincial councils for intemational cooperation, and 15 national and provincial development education programs including the provincial teachers’ federations’ global education programs. Eliminating CIDA’s Public Participation Program will only save the govemment $11 million, out of a total CIDA budget of over $3 billion. The government is also eliminating funding for delegated programs such as Partnership Africa Canada, The Philippine Canada Human Resource Development Programme and South Asia Partnership
space shuttle Atlantis in October for a rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. Hadfield will be the first Canadian to board Mir. During the summer of 1982, Major Hadfield worked as a Research Engineer at the University That connection of Waterloo. prompted Hadfield to request that a UW flag be included in the contents of his Canadian Government kit. According to Lise Beaudoin of the CSA, Canada has the right to ask NASA to fly certain objects on shuttle missions where Canadians are involved. This is the Canadian Government kit. UW does not have an official
flag, so UW sent two designs for consideration. The first was a seven by nine inch flag, the UW crest on a white field, purchased from the book store. The second design was custom-made by UW Community Relations to meet the CSA size specifications, It features an embroidered UW crest on a black background which was sewed on to a four by six inch piece of white nylon. NASA does have the option to reject any items proposed for the kit. So it is not yet definite that the flag will accompany Hadfield. It will not he known for sure until after the mission is over.
Programme. Locally, the funding cuts will result in the closure of Global Community Centre (GCC), ending over 20 years of work in this community. GCC has been pivotal in the creation and support of many social equity initiatives - including Kite hener’ s The Working Centre. At a time when issues of international debt, trade and human rights are the focus of global concern, the need to foster more public awareness of these issues has never been greater. GCC is a valuable resource in this community. GCC’s programmes and resources are widely used by schools, churches andcommunity groups. Its library is used by many people, especially students. It acts as a catalyst for groups to form and take action on issues of global concerns. GCC has an excellent schools programme which
provides support materials for teat hers and organizes presentations. It is especially important that global education programmes continue to be funded because of the role centres play in supporting the integration of global issues and social justice in the new curriculum guidelines mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Education. Global education centres are an essential link between Canadian communities and communities in developing countries. These links foster knowledge, appreciation and understanding of the wider world and strengthen the development of international community. It is extremely important that the Canadian government continue to fund the vital work of globa education programs. Fax Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet at 613-995-9926.
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it as the other leaders seem to be doing. Harris and McLeod plan to eliminate the deficit completely within four or five years “and everyone will live happily ever after,” mocked Faman. Saying again how the tough last few years have not been the NDP’s fault, Faman derided the Liberals and the Conservatives, saying “We’ve got to clean up their mess.” As far as student loans go, Farnan was unaware of Income Contingent Loan Repayment plans (ICLR’s), a system where the payments on a student’s loan depend on their post-graduation income. Last fall, there was a huge conference attended by hundreds on ICLR’s held at Queen’s Park last fall. However, Farnan said that under the NDP, loans have increased 100% while grants have been scaled
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back. “That’s the direction we will continue to work in,” said Farnan. He responded to a question about a post-graduation job plan for students with a big NDP plug, saying “the government that has a commitment to creating jobs is the government that university students should be supporting.” He spoke of how last year, the government spent $4.4 billion on infrastructure to create jobs, both directly and indirectly. He mentioned Toyota as an example of a company that located in Ontario due, in part, to our excellent infrastructure. In comparison, he belittled the opposition, calling the Liberals and the Conservatives “two parties that are going to slash and bum.” The NDP party wants to see universal access to a university education, yet also wishes for excellence in education. Farnan considered these objectives before announcing ‘*It’s a tough balance.”
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Affairs
Well, summer is upon us! Isn’t it great? The Bomber patio is open .. . Summerfest I is just around the comer . .. it’s May 2-4 weekend . . . Volleyball on the Village Green . .. did I mention the Bomber Patio? Well, on top of alI of this excitement, there are plenty of cool things happening around the Fed Office! Club Application forms are due by the end of today. If you would like more information on any of the approximately 23 clubs active this summer, they can still be contacted in the Clubs Room in the CC. This is temporary, as clubs will soon move into their new space (where the old games room was). The expanded space is a tremendous improvement. It is allowing fourteen clubs to enjoy seven
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uring their course of study, students may have problems with discrimination or harassment, or may come across other barriers to their education. Students may have an interest in global and social issues. The Office of Student Issues deals with these and other aspects of student life. The office is located in the Campus Centre as part of the new Federation of Students offices. The Office of Student Issues is divided into three commissions: the gender, human rights, and public issues commissions. The gender commission provides a forum for discussion for women and men to define and discuss issues that are specific to their respective genders. It is a goal of the office to start up work on men’s issues. Sexual assault and harassment are also a focus of this com-
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“real” offices, and the remainder to heve lovely new lockers in a huge open concept work area. As you are probably aware, the provincial election is being held June 8th. Xander Leroy, Senior Officer of Academic Affairs and Jane Pak, President, are working hard to bring an all-candidates forum to campus on May 31 at noon in the Modem Languages Theatre. If you have not been enumerated, you can contact election headquarters at 746-5505. For more information about the election, drop by the office, or give Xander a call at x2340. Lynne, the special events coordinator for the Federation of Students is still seeking some creative and energetic bodies to help plan and coordinate the biggest two parties of the summer: Summerfest I and Summerfest II at Federation Hall. You can contact Lynne at
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Dave Schneider, a second-year Systems Design Engineer, is creating a database of answers about the Canadian constitution. The project is part of Schneider’s work in his co-op placement at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa. “I picked the topic because I was interested in investigating the philosophical underpinnings of constitutional government, democracies, etc.,” he explained. The computerized database will be accessible by a natural lanThis means that guage database.
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the summer so if you are interested in any of the previously mentioned issues, or have any other concerns, please come by the office to volunteer. To be an effective resource, it is important that the Office of Student Issues is aware of events happening on campus. There are many groups on campus that do a great job of addressing issues. If you are part of a club or organization that addresses any one of the mentioned subjects, please give Rosemary a call at extension 6305. The office is also open to students who have been affected by the mentioned issues. All students should feel free to come down and express their concerns or just chat. If, after reading this article, you feel that the Office of Student Issues has neglected an important matter, let us know! The office is meant as a resource for students. The more student involvement we have, the more effective we can be.
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mission. The human rights commission’s focus is to address and increase awareness of the following issues; race and ethnic relations, accessibility for people with disabilities, and hamosexuaUbisexua1 concerns. The public issues commission addresses and increases awareness of topics such as AIDS, the environment, global issues, and responsible drinking. As evidenced from the above list, the issues base for the office is extremely broad. The office addresses these issues by planning events such as information seminars and theme weeks, and acts as an information resource. Events we are carrying over from last year are Environment Week, June 5-9, information sharing during orientation week, AIDS Awareness Week during October, and events leading up to the December 6 memorial services. There is a lot of open time in
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x4042. While we’re on the topic of special events, Rachel, the coordinator of Canada Day is looking for roughly 300 volunteers to help out. There are lots of “perks” involved with Canada Day . .. a party . . . free food .. . and a day with Rachel! She can also be reached at x4042, so if you are interested in helping out with a great University and Community shared effort, give her a call. As per usual, there are a million and six things you can volunteer for around the office. One of the most exciting of these things is the TOWN CRIER! There is a new and improved costume involved, so now all we need is a loud and energetic person to wear it! Give Trish a call at x6331 if you think you’re up to it!
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for people who are relatively new to the topic.” The answers that Schneider will put into the database will be based on questions that people ac-
tually have. “This means that I don’t know what to research until I know what kinds of questions people have about the constitution,” commented Schneider. ‘The point is to answer questions that people will ask, not write the database and hope for people to pick the right questions.” For this reason, Schneider is requesting help from ail Canadians. He wants people to send him their questions about the Canadian constitution. What kind of questions? “Any kind. Philosophical, historical, political. Questions about the documents themselves, about the principles behind it, whatever,” If you have a question about Canada’s constitution, you can email Dave Schneider at cdave@alice.dgbt.doc.ca>.
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OUSA launches campaign... continued from page 2
Students attempted to bring together OUSA, CFS-0, the Ontario Community Colleges Student ParIiamen-
paign marked with the fragmentation of Ontario’s student population. Early in May, OUSA held a meeting to discuss its election strategy. The following day, OUSA held another meeting, inviting all Canadian Federation Of Students Ontario (CFS-0) aligned schools and non-aligned schools to participate. None of them attended. York University Federation of
tary Association (OCCSPA), and other student groups together. The attempt failed. “They [the other schools] were unprepared to get something of substanceoff the ground,” said Bums. “Sure, one student voice under one umbrella is good. But if that umbrella is full of holes, we must build a new shelter.” Burns feels, however, that OUSA is “strong enough to repre-
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with OCCSPA, but both Burns and LeRoy felt that co-operation with CFS-0 would be limited at best. CFS-0, for its part, is planning a very limited and modest campaign. “The support of CFS is behind something simple,” stated Jason Hunt, CFS-0 Chair, “We are limited by the fact that it’s summer and most students are off campus.” CFS-O’s main campaign action will be to conduct research into the policies and positions of the
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few ads will be prepared by CFS-0 for use by member schools. The organization also hopes to work with outside groups, like the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Ontario Federation of Labour, to promote education during the election. Hunt did not rule out some joint work with other student groups like OUSA.
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n the last issue of Imprint, you got an idea of why Students Advising Co-opexists, and what SAC’s mandate is this term. Well, SAC is now getting started on those major issues. Your input and involvement is welcome. Last week, the Co-operative Education and Career Services department (CECS) made available an updated pamphlet entitled “How the Co-op Fee is Set and Spent.” SAC wants to know what you think of the information provided: Does it address your concerns? Do you feel you understand where your fee is going? Does the implementation of the fee seem reasonable? If you haven’t read this pamphlet yet, there are plenty available at the SAC board. The role of return-to-campus interviews is part of SAC’s mandate this term. You may or may not be aware that, this term, a penalty has been put in place for students who miss a return to campus interview without a valid reason. SAC agreed to this measure in principle last term. These students were not
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n Fall of 1994, the University of Waterloo struck an Institutional Planning Commission, whose task is to develop a vision for UW that will carry us into the future. A strategic plan for the next five to ten years is a monumental project; thus, the Commission put together working groups to look at various areas of activity within the university. One such group is mandated to examine the-Quality of Life at UW. By analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the Ouality of Life for students, staff and faculty, we hope to project a vision and make recommendations for improvement to the Planning Commission. The term “Quality of Life” is nebulous at best, and obviously means very different things to different groups of people on this campus. These things may be related to our physical surroundings, our interactions with other people with whom we work and study at UW, and the interactions between our life outside the university and our study or work environment. Through meetings with the “official voices” of constituents on campus, the working group has a glimpse of what the level of the Quality of Life is like for students,
able to apply to jobs from the first posting. If you were penalized, SAC wants to hear from you, Did you know about the penalty? How was your case dealt with? Students are always invited to come to the bi-weekly SAC meetings. At this week’s meeting two student suggestions were discussed:
Students are always invited to come to the b&weekly SAC meetings. listing match-rank results by student as well as by coordinator and listing the job number with the match-rank results so that students know what job they have. As a result, match-rank results will now be listed also by student, so a student doesn’t have to look under each co-ordinator to find whether sl he was matched. SAC and CECS agreed to not list the job number with posted re-
issues sults. If a student wants to know which job s/he got, that information is available through the ACCESS system at the same time that the paper postings are displayed. For more details on these discussions, read the meeting minutes posted on the SAC board in Needles Hall or check out the SAC WWW page. Job descriptions have been moved from the Career Services area in order to reduce congestion, especially at the photocopier. All job descriptions are available online through the ACCESS system, but cannot be printed from there. To get a hard copy, students can go to either FED Copy Plus in the Campus Centre or Graphics Express in South Campus Hail. If you have some extra time and you’d like to meet some employers first-hand, student volunteers are wanted to greet and familiarize employers on co-op procedures, preferably intermediate or senior co-op students not going through interviews this term. The time commitment is May 31st to June 20th from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. See Laura Disher in NH1092 or call x248 1 for this resume-building opportunity.
quality students staff and faculty. However, since the Federation of Students, the Faculty Association, the Staff Association and other such groups can only address these issues very broadly, the group would also like to invite individual responses from members of the university community. In part, indicators of Quality of Life that we offer as a basic guideline are:
life opportunities, recognition that students face obligations outside of their studies, and the degree of openness toward and readiness to deal with controversial issues. 4) and tion tion
Our sense of community spirit morale, including the recogniof the value of one’s contributo the university, meaningful participation in decision-making structures, and the availabilityl accessibility of social, recreational and cultural activities.
The term t’Quality of Life” is nebulous at We would very much like to best, and obviously ~~a~~,o,U,i~~o~~~~p~~ University of Waterloo, whether means very different positive or negative in nature. All comments will be held in things to different confidence; only the spirit of
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1) Our study and work environ:* ment, including things like workload, stress and interpersonal relations with other members of the university community. 2) Balancing of study and job demands and personal life, including flexibility in working, hours, academic programmes and scheduling, and time for personal and family responsibilities. 3) Diversity and inclusivity, ineluding equity and accessibility of all educational and employment
your comments will be included in our final report, unless we have your permission to report your comments in more detail. While we would prefer your comments in writing, either by mail or e-mail, we would be happy to talk with you as well. Please feel free to contact either of the undergraduate representatives of the committee, or the Chair with your input. Peter Naus, Chair, c/o SK 8848110, naus@watservl Gus Hosein, Undergrad Rep., c/o Dean of Mathematics office, MC, ihosein@undergrad.math Avvey Peters, Undergrad Rep., c/o Federation of Students, CC, x4042 (messages).
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Partnership Walk: UW sets the standard by A. SheraIi, S. Daredia, and K. Dhanani special to Imprint
ship Walk and it will receive the similar benefits as the Federation of Students. This year also marks the first time for the Walk to be sponsored by university clubs. In conjunction with the Waterloo Ismaili Students Association (WISA), several clubs have also cooperative contributed fundraising efforts. These clubs
poses of the Partnership Walk is to raise awareness of global development issues by promoting the spirit of partnership between Canadians, Canadian corporations, and the people of the developing world. The money raised by the Walk is matched three times by the Canadian InDevelopment ternational Agency (CIDA). These funds 4 go directly toward carefully managed, longterm development efforts aimed at improving basic health care, primary education, protecting the environment, and providing women with more opportunities. The emphasis is on helping people help themselves. The Christian Science Monitor has noted that
n Sunday, May 28, over 60,000 people in 11 Canadian cities will be participating in the Aga Khan Foundation’s (AKF) 11th annual Partnership Walk. This event, organized with the help of over 1000 volunteers across Canada, is Canada’s single largest event in support of International development. Last year, 450 corporations and thousands of sponsored walkers raised over $1.2 million dollars. This year, the University of Waterloo Federation of Students (FEDS) will be sponsoring the Walk. “the AKF is ime TheFEDs are the of the Third first university World’s most restudent body to spected private sponsor the develupment orWalk in Canada, ganizations.. . and the benefits Feds dish out cash for the Partnership Walk The striking SUGUW will receive has include Indian Students Assoc. cess rate of its projects with its participation are signifi(INDSA), Jewish Students greatly enhanced theirputential cant in helping promote UW’s as efective, low-cost developreputation both as leaders and as Assoc. (JSA), United Nations Club, as well as Turnkey Desk. ment models to be replicated in innovators. UW will be identified both in the Official Program Additionally, these and other other parts of the world. ” The fundraising process for for 1995 Partnership Walk and clubs have also increased the the Partnership on the bulletin Walk is unique board, which because the parwill be prorni“I am delighted to convey my warmest ticipating cornently disgreetings to everyone participating in the porate sponsors played at the receive promoKi tchener- WaPartnership Walk co-ordinated by the Aga tional opportuterloo Walk Khan Foundation Canada. Fur ten years, nities and spesite. cial media exIn addition, this important event has raised much-needed posure dependUW will be finds fur developing projects in Asia and ing on the level identified in the of participation. Partnership Africa, which have impruved the quality uf sponsors Walk Reports I would like to The life fur countless individuals. also have the which will be pleasure of commend each of you invulved in the walk sent to over knowing that 60,000 particifur your guudwill and compassion. Your their pledges pants (walkers dedicated efsorts to assist those in need will are matched by and corporaCIDA and that tions) with their unduubtedly have a significant impact on not even one tax receipts. countries less furtunate than our own. penny of their Perhaps the Partnership greatest potenPlease accept my best wishes fur a Walk donations tial benefit is successful and enjoyable walk. ” is spent on adthat UW will be ministration. identified in Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien This year, the 200 Press Kits Prime Minister Canada Partnership to be distribin Walk uted to all maKitchener Waterloo will be held awareness of how funds raised jar Canadian media outlets. at the Victoria Park Gazebo. by the Partnership Walk support The university’s involvement overseas projects. UW has es- Opening ceremonies will begin with the AKF and Partnership at 10: 30 am. To participate, just Walk has been exceptional this tablished, once again, its leadershow up. ship by promoting the Partneryear. By reserving complemenIf you would like to voluntary advertising spots in 3 is- ship Walk, and has further demsues, Imprint has become the onstrated that together we can teer or find out more about the Partnership Walk, you may call first university newspaper to be change the world. l-800-267-2532. One of the underlying pura media sponsor of the Partner-
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Big Brother and Mr. Head Damage
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ell, the word’s comedown the pipe: on October lst, 1995, everybody in Ontario will have to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. Great!! Once that law is in place everyone will be safer, especially the children. Ain’t nobody’s kid gonna die (or “worse” become paralyzed!). All those cyclists who would have suffered head injuries will be saved the trouble. But just a minute - are people dropping off like flies because they aren’t wearing helmets? Not exactly. And I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know what the numbers are. However, if you try and find helmet safety facts around you’ll very quickly find that good ones are hard to come by. The mandatory helmet pushers throw lots of statistics around, but they’re pretty speculative. The ones I’ve seen smell (reek?) of creative data manipulation shaped to serve as ammunition promoting unnecessary legislation disguised as a feel-good law for the nation. What follows is an excerpt from an article on the subject that appeared in the March 29th, 1995 Waterloo Chronicle: Helmet Facts: 1. Over 50 000 kids are seriously injured each year in Canada. 2. More than 60 kids will die in bicycle accidents this year-most related to head injuries. 3. 85% of all bicycle accidents involving children occur within five blocks of home and on their way to school. Maybe it’s just me, but the first and last points
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Facts.” Point #3 in particular is such an old argument: of course that’s where things will happen, where else do most kids ride? But never mind, it’s point#Z that I want to look at. There are many arguments I hear from folks who support,mandatory helmet wearing for bicycle riders, but it seems to me they can usually be lumped into two broad catego-
ries. The most obvious one is the “increased safety” aspect. Usually the idea is that if cyclists wore helmets, then for those times that they did have accidents, they wouldn’t get as hurt as if they weren’t wearing one. It’s just common sense and it’s absolutely true. The second argument-also the one with the greatest guilt factor - stems from the “society pays for your headwound” idea. So, every4me some daredevil cyclist rides without a helmet and gets hurt, OHIP (i.e. taxpayers) have to pay that person’s medical expenses (possibly for the rest of her/his life depending on the severity of the injury). Maybe there’s a little voice in your head going “Yeah, that’s my money, man!” Well, before you go and yell at every cyclist without a helmet you see because you’re broke from paying your income tax, let’s have a look at the bigger picture. The “facts” used to back up the safety argument, from my experience, generally take the form of “Helmet Fact #2.” At first glance it’s pretty convincing, but what is #2 actually saying? Apparently “most” (i.e. some number between 3 1 and 59) children who die in bicycle accidents will die because of head injuries. If the numbers (or lack of) aren’t vague enough, this fact tells us nothing about the head injuries. What mandatory helmet promoters want us to get out of it is that these kids would be alive and well if they would just wear helmets. What we’re ndt supposed to thinkabout is the number of these kids whose heads got run over by big hunks of sculpted-steel-onwheels moving at high-speed through places where kids ride bikes (including the five blocks around their homes). How many kids would actually have had a shot if they had a helmet on? Who knows. Statistics that specific are hard to come by, I realize. I’m not even saying I really want them, but if you’re going to use figures like the ones in #2, don’t mask their uselessness (especially when it’s
going to result in nation-wide legislation). And the OHIP angle? What about smoking, drinking, or, heaven forbid, automobile accidents! The medical costs alone from supporting victims of one of those social atrocities would blow away the most over-estimated costs incurred by cyclists who receive money from taxpayer funded social programs. As a matter of fact, making helmets mandatory is only going to diminish cycling’s popularity. Sure the die-hards will put one on, just as the Sunday-with-the-kids types, but the border-line cases aren’t going to be swayed by the government funded (i.e. taxpayer paid for), “Be Cool, Wear a Helmet” posters. So instead of encouraging people to cycle, thereby making people (and to some extent the natural world) healthier, and subsequently saving OHIP money paid out to give medical treatment for all the ailments of our society related to lack of exercise, we are discouraging them. So why are all the do-gooders and lawmakers picking on cyclists when there are all kinds of other and greater evils out there? 1 think I know part of the reason why. It was a relatively easy law to pass, considering our tendency towards “increased-safety” solutions (a Zu air bags, hard hats, etc.). And, it makes people, especially “coil~:emed” parents of the yuppie persuasion, feel better. What about actually being more careful when you ride? What about encouraging (forcing?) cyclists to learn and obey the rules of the road and forcing (encouraging?) clriverg to cut bicyclists some slack? What about the fact that pro-mandatory helmet people are giving big brother yet another excuse to watch over us? There’s more to this feel-good law than the warm fuzzy it’s supposed to give. Just remember, it is, and should be, your choice whether or not you wear a helmet. -Derek
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is not a Joke.” Maio expressed her horror at the mock “Cloven Hoof of Satan” advertisement in the parody issue of the Imprint. I won’t comment on her idea that certain subjects should be immune from humourous treatment, but I would like to correct her statements on “Satanic Ritual Abuse(S.R.A.).” According to aA& York Times article by Daniel Goleman ( “Devil Gets More Than His Due?‘), the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect surveyed 11,000 psychiatric and police workers in the U.S. and found 12,000 accusations of S.R.A., but not one could be substantiated. Smaller studies by the Michigan State Police, the Virginia Crime Commission, the Utah Attorney General, and the British Health Secretary had similar conclusions. Not one of the ‘bred for sacrifice* babies has ever been found. No evidence of such satanic cults has been reported by police agencies. Please read the Satanic Panic (ISBN OSl269192X) or The Satanism Scare (ISBN 0202303799) for more information. Presentation of one’s arguments should not require unsupported horror-mongering. Laurie
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Rachel had no idea what it was or where it had come from. All she knew was that it had followed her everywhere for over a year, emitting a high-pitched whine that was slowly driving her insane.
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Bullshit ere are the strengths and weaknesses of each party’s platform - and what they’re promising in terms of universities for Ontario’s forthcoming election. The Liberals The Liberals promise to make universities accountable by revealing presidents’ incomes. Dr. Downey might have some idea of the pros and cons of this move from a more personal perspective, but really, it’s insigificant. The accountability issue translates to more than one individual’s salary. Would universities with lower-paid presidents be better-run than universities with highly-paid presidents? Or viceversa? A better, but less appealing move would be to define minimum standards for a set of performance indicators for universities, guaranteeing that the public can understand how their tax dollars are spent in this area, In terms of funding, the Liberals promise to continue funding at 1994-95 levels. This means &solutdy nothing. Here’s why: Let’s say that UW received $100 million from the provincial government this year (which it didn’t). The Liberals are promising that in four years UW will still receive $100 million. When inflation is considered, though, the university will have absorbed a real cut, while the Liberals will say they have kept their prom-
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ise. Even mure significant will be the impact of increased enrolment. To keep working with the same analogy, UW’s $100 million is currently spread over about 15,000 students. University enrolment has increased over the past ten years, and will likely continue to do so. In four years, the same $100 million will have to go further. If we have 20,000 students in 1999, that’s an additional cut in per-student resources, which determines class size, library suitability, etc. Liberals promise no sig~$cant increases to tuition fees. What they mean by significant is unclear. Tuition has been increasing by just under 10 % each year since 1990. Would this be insignificant? The Progressive Conservatives Mike Harris’s most prolific statement regarding education occurred in London, where he promised to end tenure, noting that there are no more jobs for life in this province. The fact that he viewed tenure as a job for life demonstrates his ignorance. Local incumbent Elizabeth Witmer re(de)fined Harris’s statement to sound softer, but if this desire for accountability is shared by a Conservative government, it will be good for universities. The Tories most likely won’t go so far as to eliminate Tenure. They may, however, ensure that professors meet better defined job
performance standards (ie: be able to teach). Even UW has dead weight. The Tory attitude would ensure that this is cut first. The Tories are also in favour of an income contingent loan repayment plan (ICLR). Graduates would repay at a rate determined by their income level, rather than their debt level. While this model can’t be judged conclusively, it is in principle a much more equitatle, repayment method for a variety of reasons. The major problem is that the Tories are planning on making this system self-financing, where loans issued in a given year will equal repayments from a given year. The governments of New Brunswick and Ontario, and academic experts from Canada and Australia have determined that making an ICLR system self-financing is impossible. Repaymentrequirements would need to be so strict that default rates would mes3 up all other assumptions. ICLR may be a better method of repayment than the current mortgage model, ceteris paribus, but the Tories-are looking to it as a costsaver for government rather than a tool to promote access. The Tories are willing to allow tuition to rise, until they compose 25%of university costs. This means absdutely nothing on its own. Whether this means 25% of costs of attending university, all costs the
Only in America. Last week I saw on the news that four survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing are suing the fertilizer company whose fertilizer was used in the blast because their product was “too explosive.” Even for America, that’s pretty exceptional stupidity. By that logic, one could sue the producers of MucGywr and maybe even Richard Dean Anderson himself for making the properties of fertilizer common knowledge, Besides, if you put a tonne of a lot of things in a truck, chances are pretty good that you can make it go bang. This anything-for-a-buck attitude is simply incredible, and also, I’ll venture to say, distinctly American. It is even more mindboggling when it is exhibited by survivors of such a tragedy. After all, the enterprising individuals who printed up the “Terror In The Tower” T-shirts after the World Trade Center bombing were not directly involved in or affected by the incident, Further still, that happened in New York, the pinnacle of capitalism and profiteering. In fact, it would have been surprising if the T-shirts had not cropped up. But this most recent cash grab was in comparatively puritan Oklahoma City. CNN did its part too, producing flashy “Terror in the Weartland” computer graphics within minutes of the tragedy. Here was the next Tragedy of the Week. Incredibly enough, it upstaged the 0. J. Simpson trial whit h, incidentally, has produced an economy of its own worth $200 million, according to some newspapers. Even the terrorists at the heart of this media circus were stupid. Apart from being members of a paramilitary group that sympathized with the Branch Davidians in Waco, they did not even have the sense to steal a truck. As a result, they were traced to the crime in the same way the World Trade Center culprits were caught - by serial numbers linked to the rental company, which were then linked to the idiot who rented the truck in the first place. False identification was not even used. One would expect that there would be a handbook out there by now for terrorists. Apparently not. university incurs, general operating costs, or instructional costs makes a huge difference in this promise’s meaning. The Ontario Council on University Affairs recently estimated that students’ tuition is almost half of their instructional costs, while most estimates place tuition at only 10% of a student’s total costs of attending university. The Tories are quite vague. The New Democrats The New Democrats wish to be judged by their record. Their party maintains a zero-tuition policy
Furthermore, their alleged goal was to make the point that the government should reduge its regulation of the lives of ordinary citizens. Of course, the first thing the American government did, and rightly so, was step up security and immediately consider what to do to further restrict the activities of these paramilitary groups. The building that they bombed contained an extremely odd collection of services. Among them, the primary target was Ii kely the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office, whose Texan counterparts were witnesses to the Waco fiasco a year before. Hmmm...alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Clearly, these three elements each pose a comparable threat to society, by some twisted American logic (“Whadya say, Earl? Let’s have a couple o’ drinks, you bring the smokes, and then we’ll shoot us some Commies!“). It’s no wonder that this country has great difficulty in banning assault rifles. As if this were not enough, The Economist reported this week that the U.S. Supreme Court recently “overturned a federal law forbidding anyone to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a school.” While this was due to jurisdictional wrangling, I would still question the sanity of anyone that endorsed such a decision. Maybe the hopelessly ineffective “War on Drugs” should be directed towards the National Rifle Association, lobby groups, judges and the politicians. Somebody must have inhaled something. Meanwhile, we in Canada are debating whetheror not we should register guns. People are worried that this will lead to gun confiscation. A little alarmist, if you ask me - we register cars! A gun seems like something that the government would have a genuine and justifiable interest in. Fortunately, a glance at the carnage to the south of us ought to settle this debate in the end. We may have problems with Quebec. We may have problems with the national debt. We may have even intentionally elected the NDP in Ontario. But dammit, I’m proud to be Canadian. on the books yet has implemented tuition hikes of over 40% during their only mandate. Their party presided over the elimination of the grants-portion of OSAP, and refers to the subsequent increase in loan availability as a benefit to students. The NDP is also the party that has decreased operating grants to universities (in real terms) through every year of its mandate. [Next issue Drewe will focus on broader issues of the election.] -David
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Harbourfront: The Crisis of Old-Stvle Government J
arbourfront is a community crafts centre located near Queen’s Quay in downtownToronto. It has attracted much controversy lately because the federal government had hoped to cut its funding from $9M to zero this year. Harbourfront claims it cannot operate without this funding and has threatened to close its doors. Predictably, the arts community is Caking defensive action; accusing the government of making a grave mistake, saying that the loss of Harbourfront will be a tragic blow to the community, and offering reasons why this particular government payment should be spared while others - such as those to universities or social assistance - are not. There is little doubt that protests, rallies, and sit-ins are planned in Toronto and Ottawa. Harbourfront supporters claim that the centre attracts three million visitors per year, and pumps millions into the local economy. By chance I paid a visit to Harbourfront one Sunday afternoon in April with my girlfriend. We spent much of the afternoon at a kindergarten workshop making crafis with crayons, glitter, markers, and prominently advertised Crayola products. I had a Fantastic time and I: understand the relevance and importance that Harboufront has for the local community. As a supporter of government cutbacks I fked a dilemma: Harbourfront is d&mitely benefiting its community and it should stay open. Shouldn’t it receive public funding? The answer, of course, is no. Harbourfront needs money and should get it, but not from Ottawa. Why should federal government money be used to support a community centre in Toronto? The centre is a terrific benefit to a small number of people, myself included. Why should people who live in Calgary, Vancouver, Regina or Kitchener support, through their federal tax dollars, an arts centre in
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downtown Toronto? Shouldn’t the people who use the services be the ones who pay? How did the federal government, which is supposed to concern itself with Canadian issues, become involved in a municipal project in the first place? I&s see. A $9M shortfall.. . three million visitors per year. If each visitor paid an additional three dollars, wouldn’t that help the situation? Clearly the solution is not quite a simple as that, but the idea is valid: If Harbourfront offers such a tangible benefit to its community and visitors, shouldn’t those people be willing to pay for its services? When I visited Harbourfront I found its services to be worth much more than three dollars and I donated accordingly. And it was nice for me to donate, rather than “pay,” to use their services. Perhaps this happy atmosphere can be preserved, but the bottom line is that if people use a service, they should be willing to pay for it. If people aren’t willing to pay a small amount like three dollars - before piling their kids into their Jeep Cherokees and Volvo station wagons - then clearly Harbourfront’s services aren’t as significant as its supporters claim, Harbourfront needs money and should get it - through municipal funding and community donations. I’m willing to pay. Is the community? We shall see in the future; we shall see how much the arts centre is truly valued by its community. The controversy around Harbourfront has intensified over an upcoming visit of Japanese diplomats to Toronto. They were scheduled to see a Japanese exhibition at the centre and have said that they would be gravely upset if it was canceled due to Harbourfront’ s closure. The federal government recently announced that the grants would continue through this year, clearly for political reasons. Wowever, next year, the axe must fall. --Stephen
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Promises, “Withdrawal in disgust is not the same thing as apathy” -R.E.M. “What’s the Frequency Kenneth?”
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he disdain towards politicians and politics in general, is at a level unprecedented in Canadian history. Some would argue that it is part of the Canadian culture to be critical of government. There is nothing wrong with being critical of those who hold office, but it is important to realize that politicians are legitimized through the electorate, For an educated individual, someone who attends university for example, there is no excuse for not voting. No matter how distraught you may be with the realm of politics, it is still important to become aware of the issues affecting you, and to make an informed choice. In short, cast a ba1lot on June 8th! The following are policies of the three major parties in the upcoming provincial election which pertain to post-secondary education: LIBERALS According to the Liberal Red Book, newspaper articles, and the campaign manager of local candidate Bob Byron, there are no cuts or increases planned for post-second-
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ary education. The plan states that stable funding (at 1994-95 levels) will persist for four years for provincial schools colleges and universities. All income generated by post-secondary education through streamlining efforts wi11 be put back into those institutions. The Liberals also promise no significant increases to tuition fees. PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVES The PCs published a Blueprint for Learning in 1992 and for the most part are standing by it. The PCs favour an income contingent loan repayment plan and feel that within fifteen years, the program would be self-financing. Private sector investment would also be encouraged by the PCs, possibly through tax-deductible donations of buildings and equipment from corporate sponsors. Furthermore, the PCs feel the restriction on private, degree-granting universities should be lifted. Mike Harris, the leader of the PCs has recently attracted media attention by questioning the idea of tenure. This sentiment is not shared by local candidate Witmer. On the subject of tuition, the PCs feel fees should be allowed to rise, over a four year period, to 25 % of operating costs
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Election ‘95: Grev Suited Grafters he current provincial election offers a splendid opportunity for the middle, working and welfare echelons to register their disapproval of the deficit/debt hysteria with which Canadian financial elites have chosen to batter us daily. In their all but strangled cries for deep cuts in social program spending, Bay Street, The Globe and Mail, The C.D.Howe Institute and media interests in general, conveniently ignore the fact that up to 50% of the $600 billion federal debt can be attributed to the lopsided anti-inflation policy of John Crow, Brian Mulroney’s appointee as governor of the Bank of Canada. In her new bestselling book, Shooting The Hippo: Death By Deficit and Other Canadian Myths , veteran economic journalist Linda McQuaig makes a compelling argument that we have Mr. Crow’s harebrained pursuit of “price stability,” which is the Central Bank of Canada’s euphemism for 0 % inflation, to thank for much of the turmoil wreaked upon working class Canadians in the recessions of the past decade. All of those people thrown out of work, and many of those who lost their homes, have Mr. Crow and Mr. Mulroney to thank. Their violation of the mandate of the Central Bank, favouring the interests of the wealthy through tight money and high interest policies, while essentially ignoring or discounting middle and working class Canadians’ dependence upon employment, is a breathtakingly egregious violation of the democratic ethos. But these words do not approach, nor capture, the magnitude of the injustice because the game of deception continues under the federal Liberals. When the Central Bank sees fit to pursue such a biased policy, then it is truly astounding that average Canadians should not only suffer the effects of higher unemployment levels, but also be told that, due to the enormous debt (piled up in the service of such a policy), we must now be deprived of the very programs which protect us from the consequences of such deliberatezy induced downturns in theeconomy. In effect we are being doubly punished in that the wealthy benefit immensely from the policy, while the burden of paying for it is ever so conveniently shifted onto the public books, so that Canadian taxpayers pick up the tab. Fully cognizant of the adverse effects his policy had on employment levels, Mr. Crow’s attitude was essentially “let them be unemployed,” calling to mind Ms. Antoinette’s famous comment about patisserie. Insofar as McQuaig’s argument applies, working and middle class interests have been, and continue to be, betrayed by our political leaders. The Free Trade Agreement is a superlative example of this trend. We have this purportedly splendid document whit h, while it enhances the conditisns under which business operates, offers nothing, absolutely nothing, on the other side of the ledger in terms of social responsiblity. Corporations are free to do as they please, with no obligation or committment to create and maintain good jobs in the communities
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in which they operate. Bell Canada Enterprises earns almost a billion dollars profit two years in a row and the deep thinkers on their board of directors can think of nothing better to do than to lay off 10,000 good women and men, directly into the social safety net that idiotic neoconservative shills, such as some Globe and Mail editorial writers, so roundly deplore. Big business reveals its stony hearted, callous, inyour-face ethic on a regular basis these days, then has the temerity to ceaselessly promote an even more socially harmful, and thus fraudulent to most Canadians, neo-conservative agenda under such euphemistic code words as globalization and efficiency. Well, average Canadian voters do not give two hoots about this claptrap! They want good, stable, predictable employment opportunities; they neither want nor accept the unidimensionality of this business community sponsored “lowest bidder takes all” mentality which is strenuously attempting to lay claim to our political discourse. Canada in general, and Ontario in particular, can no longer afford to place trust in political parties whose philosophy places business interests ahead of those of the electorate. The provincial NDP, under the very able leadership of Bob Rae, is the only mainstream political party in Ontario to evince a balanced approach to very substantial economic challenges, while maintaining their committment to the principles of integrity and social justice. They do not accept the approach that we must abandon the standard of living and the compassionate society that generations of Canadians have struggled to build. Although roundly castigated in some quarters for the Social Contract, whereby $2 billion per annum is in effect clawed back from provincial employees, this remains a more humane and palatable approach than that of Chretien/Martin’s complete layoff of some 45,000 federal civil servants. A 5 % pay cut beats the unemployment and food bank lines ten times out of ten. As aggrieved as some subject to its provisions may feel, 95 % of a job is better than pogey or the dole. Lynn McLeod’s notorious flipflop on Bill 167, also known as the Same Sex Spousal Rights Bill, intended to remedy the very serious discrimination lesbian and gay couples routinely encounter in employment and housing, clearly illustrates the depth of her commitment to those people in our society whose marginalization is perpetuated for lack of stomach in our “wanna be” political leadership. The only thing requested and required of Ms. McLeod was a clear and unequivocal position against this basic injustice, By her actions she was proven incapable of leadership. What can be expected of her in terms of more complex issues such as humane
classes can feel free to pick them up, carry them home (you may need a plastic bag for this phase of the Conservatives program) and then chow down. Just remember to rinse them well... If one retreats, momentarily, from Liberal and Conservative acquiesence to neo-conservative debt and deficit hysteria, to ask some basic questions such as; is spending on social programs essentially a good thing for average Canadians? Is medicare, as we have come to know and understand it, a good thing? Is compassion for those on the margins of society a good thing? For me, the answers to these questions are, yes, these are necessary components for a just and caring society. Yet both McLeod and Harris trumpet social spending cuts as a remedy for Ontario’s $98 billion (total) debt. Why are they unwilling to pursue these efficiencies by
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corportations and individuals, who, collectively, do not pay their fair share? The reason Harris and McLeod trumpet cuts to social spending as the remedy to our public debt rather than a fair, and this means increased, tax upon corporate Ontario is because corporate
interests and the political and electoral hopes of the Liberals under McLeod and, more blatantly, the Conservatives under Harris, are one and the same. We have seen throughout the 1980’s how Conservative and Liberal politicians (remember David “balanced budget” Peterson, and “Lyin”’ Brian Mulroney) betray the interests of average Canadians at every tuming. Examples of this are too numerous to detail in this article. Suffice it to say that, for me, the provincial NDP government is the only political party with the moral integrity to balance the interests of the various echelons of society in a manner consistent with the principles of social justice. While recognizing that governmental debt is a substantial issue, the doctrinaire, ideological, dogmatic nature of the debt rhetoric emanating from Bay Street is evidence of intellectual dishonesty and the greedy. rapacious nature which characterizes late 20th century capitalism. I suggestthatrather than slashing current social program expenditures, which stood at 12.8 %of GDPin 1990, they should be increased to 20 % of GDP. This move, combined with a government policy of full employment,
would ensure that Canadians would continue to enjoy the hard won social security improvements fought for by our grandparents and parents. It would also serve to propel the country away from the atrocious social polarization endemic in the United States towards a more truly affluent and just society such as those enjoyed by Germany, Sweden and Holland. The accompanying charts illustrate that increases in social spending can pay enormous dividends. The countries with higher social spending have enjoyed real economic growth rates far in excess of those of Canada and America. They also enjoy much lower poverty rates, which puts the lie to neo-conservative arguments that social spending inhibits economic growth and -performance. The proponents of the intellectually dishonest, greedy and mean spirited neo-conservative argument that we have been hearing from too much of late, will then be free to P;lt their money where their ideology is and relocate to the United States to join in the social fray south of the 49th parallel with the Republicans, their ideological big brothers. Good luck to them and good riddance. -William
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he only white people in sight on a dusty, crowded Beijing street, my two friends and I wait for the bus, prepared for the worst. Ready for the jostle of elbows and knees, the crush of bodies, the smell of dusty sweat. Boarding the bus in Beijing is an exercise in tenacity and elbow power. And one must be prepared. On every main street, traffic crawls. Trucks rattle and groan past, taxis skirt trucks, and bicycles possess the remaining space. Hundreds of them, swarming. Men in five dollar suits squat on the sidewalk playing cards and smoking putrid cigarettes. Crowds amass at bus stop intervals and merchants selling yoghurt and hawthorn-berry popsicles scrutineer from their stalls. As the bus silently glides in, engine off to save fuel, the crowd quickly takes to the road, entering traffic -horns blare and bicycle bells ring incessantly. The bus stops and its barely functioning doors clamber open; the rush begins. No one waits. No mercy. As the engine rumbles to a start, the bus expands to accept all oncomets, and we’re off to find more. A Chinese bus is never full. Arriving in Beijing last fall,
unsure of what lay before me, I was at first struck by the life and vitality which abounds in the streets and alleyways. Street markets flourish, schoolchildrenrushdown the street in colourful uniforms, and people are everywhere. Every street is full of people selling things, fixing things, cooking things, hauling cargo on flat bed tricycles, or just plain doing something. Life is everywhere. Indeed, I was hard pressed to think of the Chinese as a subjugated, sunken people, fallen victim to years of fervent communism. After a week of dodging taxis and rampant bicycles, however, the reality of modern day China began to appear. China, today, is trapped between its monolithic history and the crush of the capitalist world at its door. The communist party still controls the population, yet their grasp is becoming increasingly tenuous, raising fears that another great clamp down is imminent. And although this fear has been a fixture in Chinese life since the communists took power, the Chinese still regard the threat as very real. No one cares to step too far out of line, lest they be put back in their place. Facing pressures from both the outside world and the ruling party, many Chinese simply don’t know what to
do. Some follow the party line, some start businesses, but most simply go on living the way have been: doing what they do and hoping for the best. To my eye, the Chinese can be divided into two categories: the entrepreneurs and those with state jobs. While many Chinese have chosen independent business over the state, the majority are still employed in ‘work units,’ which offer state support and job security. Work unit security is, however, no security at all. Officially, the state supports its work units in return for production created, providing the workers with income and insurance. In reality, many units are close to bankruptcy, with too many workers and too little workor state income, Subsequently, people have little desire or apparent need to work more than required to fill state quotas. They are disaffected with society, unwilling to work for an impersonal state, resulting in situations where people running information booths will tell you to “go away.” Or dozens of sales representatives staff a store with only ten sales counters, none of them caring to serve customers. Or non-tourist hotels that rent out rooms to foreigners at cut rates. No one seems to know the rules, nor are they particularly interested in finding them out. The same disillusionment which causes workers to not-sopolitely ignore customers, and management to scoff at rules, also affects society at adeeper level. Within the work unit culture, people ignore the real needs of other people. Many simply look out for themselves alone, causing work units to become impersonal institutions, unresponsive and often hostile to the needs of the workers. For example, in many cases where workers become terminally ill or are involved in auto accidents, their work units
refuse to press party superiors for money to cover hospital bills and, instead, simply fire the worker to avoid the trouble. Sadly, when car accidents do occur in the incredibly congested streets, people are often left to die as hundreds of people pass by, unwilling to help lest they become responsible and forced to pay the hospital costs. Not that there aren’t helpful and altruistic people in China, there are. But with such a massive population, those that help are overwhelmed by the millions who do not. If life and security were so precarious for everyone in China, however, the country would be in an even greater mess. And so, China has Deng Xiaoping to thank for implementing the economic reforms which currently allow for free enterprise and private businesses. With the majority of Chinese stagnating in work units, a growing number are forsaking the system in search of free market opportunity. These people are the entrepreneurs, the f]Jture of an open China, and they sell things. Everywhere. They sell everything from hand washes to yoghurt to fake beepers, setting up carts, stalls, and markets wherever space allows. These are the people who create the vitality I first witnessed. They want you to buy, buy, buy and they aren’t afraid to yell across the street to get your attention either, or follow you. A mostly friendly lot, they want no more than your business, despite the fact that every other stall around is selling the exact same products at exactly the same prices. Unfortunately, the notion of competition hasn’t quite caught on everywhere yetBeyond street level, entrepreneurs constantly seek foreign investment to develop business ideas, not only for the influx of hard currency, but for the prestige of sharing a “joint venture,” which brings financial opportunities not open to others - including the right to own a car.
The upshot of China’s economic reforms has become the increase in official corruption and the growth of the black market. Train tickets on popular lines are near impossible to obtain officially, fake identification can be bought from those with the proper red stamp, and private bus lines follow official bus routes promising to get you there faster - for a price. In China, the crush of crowds forcing themselves onto buses and in front of queues is more than simple rudeness, it is the state of the nation. With business opportunities sprouting like grass and the capitalist world on the doorstep ready to suit anyone with ideas, the Chinese business mind is flourishing. The entrepreneurial population is gathering, waiting for the next open market to cram into. Opportunity is everywhere and a shortage of labour is not even remotely possible. The crush of endless opportunity however, may not last. The tolerance of the Communist party is limited and no one knows for sure what will happen next. Not business people, not workers, not even party members. Even as state workers stagnate and business minded citizens wrestle for space in the opening markets, everything may still grind to a halt. As long as the Communiet Party rules, and no end is realistically in sight, China will remain prey to insecurity. Despite the Party, however, China
is a vibrant
and culturally
rich land. The past 45 years of communism are a mere speck compared to China’s thousands of years of dynastic rule. Whether the communists stay or go, Chin,a will remain steeped in its own culture - a culture most Westemers, including myself, will never fully understand.
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ith the lifting of Apartheid and the embracing of full democracy, South Africa has been welcomed back into the arena of international sports after a decades-long world wide boycott. Nowhere was that boycott more bitterly felt in South Africa than with the sport of rugby. Verging on a near religion in the volatile nation, South Africa has historically been one of the world’s great rugby superpowers. So it comes as little surprise after the lifting of sanctions that the International Rugby Board selected South Africa as host to the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Held every 4 years, tht: third Cup will be South Afric;l’s first-ever as a contestant. That first-ever game of theirs will he no picnic; it’s the opening tnalch of the tournament, May 2Sth, against defending World Champion AustcGa, who’re again favoured to win the Cup this time. Not that the host nation doesn’t stand a chance. Indeed, after being out of the loop for ages, South
Africa has been making huge advances in the last two rugby years, and appears seasoned and ready. Besides, beating South Africa at home has proven notoriously difficult and teams will have to contend there against some rugged elements - heat, high altitudes, and rock hard playing surfaces. There are 16 teams in the month-long tournament, divided into 4 groups. They are; Group A Australia (I} Canada (8) South Africa Romania Group B England (2) Western Samoa (7) Argentina Italy Group C N&w Zealand (3) Ireland (6) Wales Japan Scotland (4) France (5) Tonga lvory Coast t )ers in parenthesis are the l-)ased on the finishing performances from the I991 World Cup held in England. The top 8 finishers and the host country are
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all mandatory qualifiers, and the remaining 7 teams all won entrance through a series of rigorous qualifying rounds. The fact that South Africa has never competed in a World Cup poses a weird, almost insurmountable hurdle for Canada’s chances of making it into the playoff round. Only the best two teams from each group advance. Normally, South Africa would in all Iikelihood never be seeded lower than 5th, but since they’ve never competed they are without a seeding. As such, Canada has had the worst luck being grouped in a division featuring both South Africacrjzd Australia. Worse, if the hope of their advancement in the tournament was originally remote at best, it’s been getting even lower by the week. It was only a couple of years ago that Canada was on a high. After finishing in the top 8 in the last World Cup, Canada demonstrated their result was no fluke by knocking off France and Wales, lr-aditional rugby powers, in subsequen t Test matches. The last year has not been so kind. After a disastrous recent tour to the United Kingdom, Canada has just suffered one of its most humbling defeats ever, a 73-7 thrashing at the hands of the New Zealand All Blacks. A Ioss to that rugby crazy nation seemed inevitable, but not nearly by such a margin. It’s meant terrible momentum on the eve of the tournament, and coach Ean Birtwell’s head is already on the chopping block. A berth in the playoffs would change everything. The bookies have champs Australia penciled in as the favourites this year, but the field looks wide open. It says here, though, that only five teams stand a chance of winning the Cup, any of the five being able to beat the other on any given day. These countries are the top three seedings, Australia, England and New Zealand, as well as hostnation South Africa and 1987 Cup finalist France. Short of a pipe dream, any other team winning the Cup would be a monumental upset. No team frotn the Northern Hemisphere has yet won the trophy and with the Final being played at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park, you can count on that trend continuing. That eliminates England and France, both incredibly strong teams but ones that probably won’t measure up in the heat and pressure. That leaves the remaining Southern Hemisphere superpowers, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The first two are the only teams to have won the World Cup. The Australian Wallabies squad are living legends, which is both good and bad. Good, because they know what it takes to win, and bad because
several of the players are getting a little bit long in the tooth. Much like the defending champion NZ All Blacks in ‘91, a couple of players are sticking around for the Cup when a retirement may have been a better option. Still, they’re strong,
skilled and know how to dominate. If any team can play with them, it’s the AlI Blacks. The New Zealand team has gone through all sorts of disarray of late. Losses against England, France and (narrowly) to Australia had the nation collectively shaking its head. The team has since rebounded with a big shake-up and selection of old and new. The new players are almost overwhelmingly naive in international test experience, which certainly plays against their chances, but the unknownfactor also promises to keep the oposition totally off-balance. In any event, the new players will be sharp, if only because of where they play their rugby. As far as South Africa is concerned, they obviously haven’t been as tested with the same international experience to contend with the contemporary dominant powers, but their domestic levels have always been high. Nevertheless, as the host nation they’ll be playing with a distinct advantage and at an incredibly high emotional level. It says here that any of those three will win, but bet on Black.
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The fortunes of the prominent teams will naturally be dependent upon select individuals whose skills and presence can either lift or outright deflate their respective teams. These players include: - England captain Will Carling. The leader of the North’s best team over the last five years has been embroiled in controversy the past month, dropped as captain for remarks he made about the sport’s governing body, then re-instated. How will he respond? - Australian superstar David Campese. Does he still have the legs for melodrama, or will he fumble with the game on the line? - New Zealand veteran Zinzan Brooke. With Michael Jones no longer on the squad, it may be up to Brooke to emotionally raise the team. Hampered with career-threatening injuries, he’s going into the tournament pronounced 65% fit. Will it be enough? - Canada’s Gareth Rees. Puts massive points on the board, but also boots away over half Canada’s possession. With coach Birtwell, he is sure to be in the hotseat.
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ummer is (almost) here and actually being able to go outdoors allows all kinds of new activities. One activity not seen before in the Waterloo area will be happening on May 27th. Known only as The Game, it is an exciting and challenging twenty-four hour...
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game. The Game is somewhat akin to hunt, in that each clue reveals the location of the next. The difference is that the clues can take all manner of forms -- puzzles, allusions, codes, pop-culture references, scientific problems -- just about anything that could be used to convey information. The clues will often lead players far away from the starting point, but will usually get them home, probably not before dawn, but at least before the next sunset. Much sleep is lost; much fun is had. The goal of The Game is to complete this quest as quickly as possible. I played my first Game as a sophomore at Stanford afterreceiving an invitation from one of my friends. He had been issued a subpoena by an official-looking person, to appear at a certain time and place to give pre-trial testimony about an indirect costs hearing. He thought it was real (it was an actual subpoena form, and used his notwell-known middle name), so he dressed up well and showed up. However, his suspicions were aroused when he recognized a number of the people around him as others who’d played in Games before. One of the students running the Game then announced to people what was actually happening,
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and told them to assemble their teams. After our team was assembled we started looking for pre-clues: clues that appear before the actual name, usually containing informazon that will help during the Game itself. A banner in White Plaza directed students to seek out Agent Claude Lorraine. Claude Lorraine is an artist that whose work was being exhibited on campus. Near the work were a bunch of envelopes; the one with our team name on it contained what was apparently an encoded message, and instructions to listen to the campus radio station at a particular time. The radio gave us the key to the code, which told us a reference book to bring. We were ready and feeling cocky that we’d gotten the clue. Actual Game day was quite an exciting time. We filed into a lecture hall where we were reminded of the rules, and then told the location of the first clue. A stampede to make a fire marshal1 blanch followed, as the hundred or so people tried to clear the room as quickly as possible. I ran across campus, while Leo biked, and Carlos and the rest hopped in the car. By the time I arrived at the building where the clue was, my friends were hollering for me to get to the car, which I promptly did, and we raced off. We actually moved pretty quickly through the first few clues and ended up near a small waterfall in Golden Gate Park. Behind the waterfall was a bunch of long roils of plastic, one for each team. There were already three missing, so we knew there were teams ahead of us. Accompanying the rolls of plastic was a note saying “Laurence Hall of Science.” While some of us
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startedunrolling the plastic, the rest started looking through the myriad of maps we’d gotten from AAA the day before. The Laurence Hall of Science was on Berkeley campus, on a hill that overlooks the San Francisco Bay. As we drove over, we examined the other part of the clue: a really long roll of clear plastic with letters written crosswise on it, usually about two letters per line. It didn’t make any sense, and we thought maybe it was to be fitted with a plaque or inscription. We arrived at Laurence Hall about a half ,hour before the sunset and the view was beautiful. However, we found no plaques, no obvious uses for the plastic, and the building was closed. We searched the area but found nothing. Stumped, we phoned Game Control, to ask them if they knew that the building was closed and for a hint. They replied that they knew the building was closed; as for a hint, all they said was, “Look around.” So we did. There were some sculptures, but we couldn’t see of what use they were. There was also a bunch of what appeared to be flag poles, although I don’t think there were any flags. They may have been some kind of distributed antennae -- I don’t know, to this day I’ve never found out what their purpose was. Leo, however, did divine what they might be used for, and surreptitiously started wrapping the plastic around the pole. There were other teams searching the area at the same time, so he didn’t want to reveal his idea. Sure enough, when the plastic was wrapped around the flagpole, the letters lined up in a meaningful way , revealing a long story about Agent Whitefang making for mountains,
Campus by Kathleen Ryan special to Imprint elcome back to another of Campus Recreation at UW! While the student population has diminished during the summer, the variety of activities offered through Campus Ret has not. With warm and sunny days ahead, it’s time to get involved and get in shape. No matter what your interest, Campus Ret has an activity for you! Read on for a brief look at recreational opportunities during the spring term. Feel like playing an informal game of basketball, volleyball, badminton, indoor soccer, ball or floor hockey? Book an hour of free gym time at the Columbia Icefield gym (Monday-Friday from 1 :OOpm3:30pm) by calling 888-4567 x5522. The Equipment Centre at the PAC (on the main floor by the changerooms) will provide basketballs, volleyballs, soccer balls, footballs and softballs, frisbees, singlets and skipping ropes in exchange for a student card. Squash, racquetball, tennis and badminton racquets and some golf clubs can be rented for $1.00. Equipment available at the Columbia Icefield (CIF) includes
following his compass north and other such things. This in turn led us to Jack London Square in Oakland, where we found a shack commemorating him, and, not-so-coincidentally, a large compass set into the ground in tilework. (I’m somewhat ashamed to say it took a while to notice the compass). We followed the northem heading of the compass and eventually (after a little searching and climbing on things) discovered a box with clues directing us back to Stanford. We walked some distance away, and then yelled for everyone to get their ass back to the car, hopped in, and took off, adrenalin pumping. Finally, some twenty hours later, we arrived back at campus ( a second trail of clues had taken us away from campus again), only to learn that we were the second team to arrive. So close! The winners had beaten us by about twenty minutes. So we congratulated them, thanked Game Control, ate the finger food provided, talked about solving clues and the strange things that had happened, and then went home and collapsed into bed, tired but happy. I played in two other Games as an undergraduate, and while I enjoyed all of them the first still stands out in my mind as the coolest. So cool that we decided to-run one ourselves senior year, inviting Game Control (who were still in the area) among others, to play. A good time was had by all, in spite of things like cars breaking down, clues being stolen and teams driving off to bizarre places on unfounded hunches. Now I am hoping to bring
the Game to Waterloo, Clues have been made, sites scouted, and plans laid. All we need are the teams to play. So if you like a challenge and experiences out of the ordinary, get a team together and give it a try. And if you see strange signs while walking about campus, check them out. An odd classified ad might contain valuable ;Ind useful information. Don’t forget that a wide range of skills is important in a team -- having no one who knows who Ophelia was is just as bad as not being able to recognize Morse Code. Game date is Saturday, May 27, starting around noon, and lasting about twenty four hours. There is a per-team charge, to cover the cost of clues - it’s done on a break even basis. Because pre-Game&es will be placed before the Game itself, teams need to register as soon as possible. We will be able to fit in some teams after Saturday the 2Oth, but it will be on a first-come firstserve basis. Good luck! P.S. For more registration information, try your hand at: Bi dxl’pu elpbxls tfq ztfv ibfq xlv nxpu quvtbws, vkuf sufq u-ntbw twekunsv@pbso.svtfixpq.uql P.P.S. You might find the following map useful on Game day itself.
Recreation most goaltender’s equipment, team sweaters, helmets and broomball sticks for scheduled Campus Ret games. Want to beat the heat? Visit the PAC and dive into the pool’s cool waters. Recreational fitness swims take place during the week from 7:30-9:OOam, 11:30am-1:30pm, 4:3@5:30pm and 9:00- 10:30pm (except Fridays). Weekend swimming is offered from 2:00 - 4:OOpm. Water, in its solid state, is equally refreshing. Enjoy recreational skating at the CIF Tuesdays through Fridays from 12:00-1:M) p.m. and, when available, on weekends from l:OO-3:00 p.m. Check the weekly ice schedule for more details. If shinny is your game, try PickUp Hockey on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4:005:OOpm. Be sure to wear full protective equipment. If your skates need to be sharpened, there is a pay machine at the CIF. Ice time can be reserved for a fee by booking in person through the PAC reservationist at PAC 2039. Enjoy the summer weather by hitting the courts! UW students can book a free tennis court at the Waterloo Tennis Club (on Seagram Drive beside Waterloo Park) by calling 885-3920 after 900 a.m.,
48 hours in advance of booking. If squash or racquetball is your game, you can book 40 minutes of court time at the PAC by visiting PAC 2039 the day before your game (Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4: 15pm) or by calling 888-4567 x582 1 (Monday-Friday, 8: 15-9:OOam only). If you’re looking for a partner, be sure to check the Partner’s Board by the Equipment Centre at the PAC. Golf fans can practice at UW’ s nine-hole par 3 practice course behind the Columbia Fields and Brubacher House. As well, three softball fields and one soccer/football field are available for use, usually daily before 4:OOpm. To book, call the PAC reservationist at x2699, two weeks in advance. The weight room in the lower Red South comer of the PAC is also available for all your training needs with a variety of weights, exercise bikes, rowing machines, stair climbers and 51c0mpIetc circuit of Polaris equipment. Finally, don’t forget to consult your Campus Recreation spring 1995 program book for more details on Campus Ret activities. Lodk for this column in the next issue of the Imprint for more information on staying active!
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meets Thrush Hermit The Volcano Thursday, May 11 by Pat Merlihan Imprint staff etting your photo in Harpur’s Bazaar magazine isn’t any guarantee that your band will sell out the Volcano. Nor, for that matter, will a cover story in NOW. This is precisely what Halifax altema-popsters Thrush Hermit had to contend with last week, blowing into Kitchener in what should have amounted to something like a homecoming, so popular are their Maritime brethren like Sloan, Eric’s Trip and jale here. For now though, Thrush Hermit are busy building on what could be a brilliant career as musicians and entertainers at poorly attended concerts. They’re presently at the start of a three month tour supporting their spanking new EP, The Greal Pacific Ocean, that will bring them across Canada and throughout the United States. With their marginally successful, highly acclaimed Bomb EP already behind them, Trush Hermit look toward a sunny future of many more records to come and hopefully a core audience to follow. The fact that they are yet another great unsigned band has little to do with their present mindset and doesn’t appear to be giving the youngsters any false hope or reason
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he 24th International Tournee of Animation is here once again. Started in the late 1960s by University of Southern California animation teacher Herb Kosower, local students needed a place to show their works, because the commercial theatres wouldn’t accept them. Exhibiting at first in museums and schools, its popularity quickly grew, taking it to the roads of North America. Over the years, the following has hardly diminished, making it a highly competitive show for the artists. The Toumee is a vehicle for up and coming animators to show their talents, which later enables them to work in main stream Hollywood. Mike Judge who createtieavisand Butt-Head, Tim Burton and The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Simpsons, and Ren and Srimpy all
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for pessimism. Indeed, they’re so young that they still seem to be in awe of even being on the road in the first place. They’ve been playing together since they were 12 or 13 years old, and most of their present time is consumed by writing and playing music. They realize this, actually thriving on the fact that they’re building their own rags to riches story, and expecting that it’s not going to come easy. It shouldn’t, and they know as much. Their singles and EP’ s provide a sort of historical document marking their progress before embarking on an eventual full-length album adventure that may rival (dare we say it?) Led Zeppelin. Well, that’s their dream. Whether or not that happens right now doesn’t much matter. They keep writing and performing quirky fun tunes, thrashing about on stage, preparing for what looks like a very bright future. That future looks even brighter on the heels of their latest release, The Great Pacific Ocean. Their new EP possesses the production credit of none-otherthan hip indie producer-to-the-stars Steve Albini (Wedding Present, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, The Pixies, etc.) Albini’s efforts have allowed the new recording to more closely duplicate Thrush Hermit’s live sound than does the predecessor Smart Bomb. His skill at punching out drums really makes this recording true to their performance, which the band is ecstatic about. Taking
ain’t started here. The majority of the animation films this time are from the United States, with entries from Britain, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia. The pictures discussed below are just some of what’s offered. The Ride to the Abyss by Georges Schwizgebel looks very much like a painting. The influence of Giorgio de Chirico can be seen in the stark white walls and well defined shadows. Use of flat, pure colour, applied in thick broad brush strokes, combine to express feelings of emptiness and Hector abandonment. Berlioz’s classical piece The Damnation of Faust is heard throughout. I Think I Was An Alcoholic is made up of black and white stick draw reveal artist John Callah; struggle with alcoholism.
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only two days to record in his home reflects the band’s live ethos. The lead-off track and EP title is an in-joke between frontmen Joel Plaskett and Rob Benvie, playing upon a pun of Ocean Pacific and Ralph Lauren clothing, both popular fashions for the two in high school (in actuality not that long ago.) “The Great Pacific Ocean” is an example of great pop songwriting that the Hermit’s pulled off with great gusto in their Volcano gig. “Patriot” was more of the same, Benvie singing, “I’ve got a solid heart of steel/ It rests in my ribcage and turns/ All the wheels.” The lyric was a foreshadow of Benvie’s theatrical guitar smashola scene for the show’s encore. Touting these guys as a Sloan Jr. band isn’t so far off the mark. But give these guys some credit, they’re fucking great in their own regard. They happen to share a common hometown, a similar fun energetic live show, fairly similar pop tunes enlaced in trashy guitar lines, and Sloan’s Murderecord label. Geez, I guess they really are kinda like Sloan, So what! You could get far less flaterring comparisons. Foi now, it’ll have to do, but don’t be surprised come the release of their first album that the journos are going to be calling other rag-tag groups “the new Thrush Hermit.” That’s how distinct an image and sound they’ve already got. Catch ‘em next time.
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he finds humour in his past experiences, which at the time were anything but funny. The Sandman is a British film directed by Paul Berry. Taking over three years to make, this short about a little boy going to bed often resembles a tale by Dickens. Puppets are placed in dark sets with endless steps and distorted surroundings. Only music and eerie sound effects are heard, which prey on our subconscious fears which we still have from childhood. Well able to express fright in his pale, haunted face, the audience understands his terror. Czechoslovakian Michaela Pavlatova directs her first film Words, Words, Words. Lacking intelligible speech, th le audience can still understand .w {hat is happening between the man Y people. Heated discus-
sions, conversations with lovers, gossips, and businessmen are all painted in bright colours, and contrasts with the white of the figures. The isolation of speech and silence, and the pain both cause is also shown effectively. The Will Vinton Studios segment is over twenty minutes long, and comprises both claymation and stop-motion features. Mr. Resistor lives in a light bulb, but goes on an adventure, and numerous claymationcommercials are shown, such as the California Raisins, Freeway Crossing and others. Only Cool Tools is computer generated. Firmly established in Hollywood, the studio continues to influence and control a rapidly growing industry. This rich and varied selection of short animated movies using different
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lot of love, work, and dedication has gone in to each of these projects. It’s difficult to fathom the enormous time commitment and paThe Tournee is tience required. definitely enjoyable, and a very good reason to avoid any pressing assignments.
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ake a narrator named Danny, a beautiful young woman named Irena and a couple of submachine guns - place them all in the Czech Republic at the end of World War II, and what do you have? Cutcher in the Rye, Czech style. Danny is one of the bored youth, not quite a zootsuiter, but not exactly a member of the Young Stalinists either. Danny is a saxophonist. He belongs to a jazz band and thinks mostly about jazz and girls. In fact, he goes so far as to join the rebel uprising as the Germans withdraw - in order to impress Irena. We are with Danny as he learns to shoot a gun, bombs a tank full of Get-mans, and kills a man. The press release for this novel says that Danny
something like Holden’s “phony bastards .” Danny is not quite as cynical, however. He seems to trust the town fathers to make appropriate decisions, and generally does the right thing. Still, Danny is too cardboard for my liking, The characters around him - the members of his band, his parents, the concentration camp refugees he meets - give the novel its depth. Because it is my personal policy to finish what I have started, I stuck it through to the end. The novel began to pick up when Danny threw himself into a ditch and watched the Germans annihilate his fellow rebels. Like Holden’s encounter with the pimp, this is the point that brings Danny out of his complacence. He realizes that it is not a game, that people are actually dying, that there is more to life than girls and jazz. Unfortunately the end came too late. I didn’t like Danny enough to care whether he ever grew up.
to be bored to death by - or to lie down and die a fight.” I am not so sure. sensibilities, Danny does
the novel I reviewed in 5 issue of Imprint, The Cowards was banned on publication in 1958 by authorities in Soviet Czechoslovakia. It was with this novel that Skvorecky first became a prominent Czech voice. In 1984, Skvorccky became known in Canada, winning the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for The
Engineer
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Souls.
Skvorecky was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1992. I would hope not because of this novel. Whenever Danny is bored, or tired, or scared, he thinks about Irena. This gets tiring and repetitive. If Skvorecky edited his narrator’s rambling a bit, he could knock this novel down to about 300 pages. At the same time, I understand his reasons for the rambling. To return to the Cutcher comparison, it is
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or two men sharing a house in Sydney, Australia, they are more than just roommates and good friends; they’re also father and son. Though they drive each other crazy from time to time, a strong affection does exist between them. Circumstances arise that change their plans for the future, and ultimately draw them closer. Jack Thompson plays the agreeable ferry captain Harry Mitchell. This widower continues to look for and enjoy love, even fmding it through a computer. His grown son Jeff continues to live at home, and they get along well together. Harry has always known of Jeff’s homosexuality, which he enthusiastically encourages. Possess-
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ing a mischievous smile and droll sense of humour, Harry prompts some of the good natured teasing which occurs. His one-sided conversations with the audience are amusing and divulge candid insights, but tend to wear thin. Russell Crowe is Jeff Mitchell,
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an avid rugby player and plumber in his early twenties. Openly homosexual for several years, he is extremely fortunate and thankful for his father’s positive attitude and support. Never afraid to tell each other off, they also like to discuss their amorous exploits. More reserved than his dad, Jeff falls in love with a gardener named Greg, but endures both comic and painful results. Deborah Kennedy plays Joyce Johnson, Harry’s computer mate. Divorced and in need of a companion, she is quickly won over by Harry’s romantic gestures, but tries to remain cautious. She reacts angrily after learning that Jeff is gay. Controlled by ignorance, fear, and prejudice, she tries to shame Harry, but he refuses to be embarrassed. The cinematography is beautifuI with gorgeous shots of sunny Sydney and its nearby harbour. In spite of some weak moments, the film is altogether humourous and entertaining.
of Whores
by Josef Skvorecky
Books,
248 pages
by Rebecca Higgins Imprint staff
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kvorecky is a writer to be respected. His words are carefully chosen; his phrases are always perfectly sculpted. But it’s more than just his writing. The Republic of Whores was a great risk for Skvorecky. His mockery of communism was deemed so unacceptable that the book was destroyed by the Russians in 1969, Slowly the novel began to be published in other countries, but it was not until 1989 - after the fall of communism - that it was finally published in Czechoslovakia. The author’s disdain for the communist armies is clear as he portrays the Seventh Tank Battalion as often lazy, unwilling and possessing a vibrant spark of de& ante, a trait not tolerated in the presence of commanding officers. The story follows the activities of the soldiers as they fumble through drills and ignore their duties. It focusses especially on the life of Danny Smiricky, an educated tank commander whose obligatory service is about to come to an end.
Danny awaits his release eagerly, passing the time by thinking of Lizetka - a woman he pursues unsuccessfully and by sleeping with a lieutenant’s wife named Janinka. Skvorecky ‘s writing, even including descriptive passages, is tight and concise. But, surprisingly, less happens than I had originally expected, The adulterous act goes undetected, Smiricky does indeed leave the army unhindered, and war does not break out after all. Perhaps it is just my cynical 90’s mindset that somehow makes me expect widespread death or personal disaster. Skvorecky successfully manages to work in a few interesting twists, however, as when the tyrannical major stumbles upon a female sergeant - detained temporarily in thecamp prison - having sex with an officer who is supposed to be on prison duty. But, although well-crafted, The Republic of Whores can be frustrating. So many names are introduced that one has to flip back in the book to discover who’s who. In my ignorance I found the abundance of Czech names difficult to take, because I knew I was consistently pronouncing them wrong in my head. I would have liked less focus on army procedures, and more on certain characters and Danny’s love life. An entire chapter was devoted to the Fucik Badge tests, which dragged on incessantly. The Republic of Whores should be read all at once. I read a page or a chapter here and there over an extended period of time, which was probably the wrong way to read it and was probably the reason for my confusion over the names. I appreciate Skvorecky’s craftwork but admit that I was occasionally bored. I blame my own ignorance for this and not Skvorecky. I respect him for the sacrifices he made to write the truth he believed in, and I love the title of the book, which refers to the soldiers, the women, even Smiricky himself. Perhaps Skvorecky is trying to show us that in reality, we are all whores.
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Catherine the Imprint interview by CMs Imprint
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hicago has been a hotbed of musical activity lately. With acts like Veruca Salt, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill and Smashing Pumpkins coming to the forefront, there has been a recent signing frenzy of other Chicago bands, including Catherine. Signed to New York based TVT Records,Catherine has been receiving attention in alternative circles. Described by some as mirroring the Smashing Pumpkins’ sound, Catherine are more akin to the noisy, distorted guitar of both My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth. Even so, being close friends with the Pumpkins has not dulled comparisons. Drummer Kerry Brown co-produced tracks on the Pumpkins’ Pisces Iscariot, and is married to Pumpkins’ bassist D’ Arcey Wretsky. As well, Billy Corgan produced their first EP, Sleepy, and plays in a side-project band, Star Children with guitarist Neil Jendon. Regardless, Catherine and their swirling triple guitar attack are striving to create their own niche in the world of loud arena rock. The quintet is comprised of founding members Neil Jendon (vocals/guitar) and Jerome Brown (guitar), brothers Kerry Brown {drums) and Keith Brown (bass), and Mark Rew (vocals/guitar). Currently touring to promote their new album,Sorry, Imprint caught up with Catherine at a Toronto gig.
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Could you talk a little about the Sorry motto ‘Better Living Through Noise’? N.J. It’s just a spoof on the GE. corporate logo or the G.E. corporate slogan of Better Living Through... I forget what it is. Just the idea that you could buy anything to make your life better. K.B. Better Living Through Lightbulbs! N.J, Yes, Somehow the quality of your life would go up. It just seems ludicrous. I though it was funny, that, but it would be a lie. Where have you been having the biggest responses? IL& The big cities are cool because the turn out is consistently good. We’re playing twenty-one and over clubs so everyone has seen it all a million times. N.J. Entirely too cool. Too cool for their own good. K.B. Then there’ s like Springfield, Missouri, where there will be six hundred kids that are dying for music that are just going crazy, Tulsa, Oklahoma, we’re huge there. Have you been playing a lot of all-ages gigs then? K.B. It seems that the all-ages shows are in like Tulsa, Oklahoma. When we go to New York and L.A. it is really hard to get an all-ages show. The night clubs don’t want to deal with it because they don’t sell alcohol. We’re not big enough to play a three thousand seater where they make money off ticket sales. We get all-ages now when we open for Suede and Hole in Florida. That will be great. That will be all-ages and that’s where a lot of our audience is. Kids that are finding music for the first time. For me there is nothing worse than going to New York, and playing to people who are thirty that have seen every band in the world. N,J. Nine times out of ten they are from the industry so it is in a way
kind of redundant. What is Chicago like for all-ages gigs? K.B. Tough. There are a lot of eighteen and over, but still it is the same thing. If we’re not going to sell out a big hall, the night clubs can’t risk having the place packed with kids that aren’t going to drink their beer. All-ages clubs are failing all over the place. People try to do it but it’s just...bands come in and they pretty much take all of the door, so then the promoter is stuck selling Cokes... N.J. ...and coat check. It’s rough. All these cities, the minute there is any all-ages thing going on, the police are all over it like a bad suit. City hall is all over it. They can potentially rub something like that into the ground just by saying that you need a special business license or whatever, or you need special insurance. That’s the way it is. It just doesn’t happen. K.B. There is nothing worse than a sixteen year old kid who is a total music lover [who can’t get into a
“In the daylight you don’t really feel drunk.” show]...we got into it a lot, especially when we played in Chicago. The last time we played Chicago it was an eighteen dollar show and there was like fifty kids outside that didn’t have I.D. because they were under age, and they couldn’t get into the show, which sucked. Just because they are not a lega adult, they can’t see a band it’s kind of silly.
NJ. Those are the kids that are going to go out and buy the record, and they are into it. It made us feel like big jerks. Who’s idea was it to do the Bee Gees cover of UEvery Christian Lionhearted Man”? M.R. It was my idea. I thought it would be kind of funny to do it and I thought it was a really good song. When I was a kid I used to like the band a lot. I used to listen to their forty-fives and this was in the late sixties before disco, before they did disco stuff. N.J. It’s funny even their disco stuff is,..good compared to other disco stuff. J.B. Just watch Saturday Night Fever. N.J. I guess yesterday’s trash is always today’s nostalgia - it’s always better than what is around now. I was just surprised because our soundman has the soundtrack and he played it one night and...it sounded cool. I hate to say it but it sounded cool. I remember just hating it when it came out. M.R. The Bee Gees were one of those bands who started out to be just as unique or obscure as any other band of that time. Then they succeeded and ran into the seventies, and took advantage of the seventies trends which sort of hurt them after the seventies. NJ. There was a band that had a good long run at it. They were able to reinvent themselves three or four times. K.B. They were one of the few bands that came out of the sixties that actually tried the seventies disco thing and it worked for them. Roxy Music sort of discoed but the Bee Gees full-out discoed. At least they went into it hardcore, M.R. Since everyone identifies the Bee Gees with the seventies it was easy to say ‘let’s do it, people will think it’s funny.’ In reality it wasn’t a seventies disco song. We didn’t really change it - we just added a lot of distortion. It’s on the Best Of The Bee Gees Volume One. K.B. I like the people in the audience that don’t believe that it’s a Bee Gees song and they think we are lying. We used to play it and then say ‘that was a Bee Gees song’ and then hear thirty people laugh. I’d love it if someone from the Bee Gees would come on stage and jam it with us. So what is your ideal gig? M.R For me it would be eighty percent men and twenty percent women. J.B. And all the men topless. N. J. That was Jerome Brown. That doesn’t mean that the rest of the band necessarily agrees with him. K.B. A medium-sized room with a good P.A. and a friendly crowd. NJ. I kind of understand why you need a big rock light show and all
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that nonsense. In the bigger venues you need to do something to get people’s attention. In a three thousand seat hall, a five piece band looks about yay big from all the way in the back. K.B. At Lollapalooza you see bands that totally kick your ass in a nightclub, and they are in front of a place that holds thirty thousand and the band looks like this and sounds like this and it’s during the day. NJ.’ It doesn’t matter how much you drink, when you’re out in the daylight you don’t really feel drunk. K.B. There is this huge distance. Some bands can do it. The Stones can do it. J.B. They have that giant dragon. N.J. If it’s a good band, it can only make it better. K.B. We did a Chicago show where we couldn’t afford to have a giant floating pig, so we had this guy who was about six foot six dress up in a pig outfit and come on stage and smoke cigarettes the whole show. We got a review in the Sun Times. The whole review was about the pig - nothing about the band. Do you think that the hype surrounding Chicago has helped you? KB. It’s weird. When we were there all the time...it affected us a lot more. Since we are never home, the connection is different. Of course we go into some clubs and they’ll say ‘From Chicago, Billy Corgan’s favorite band.’ M.R. I think that it’s really good. As it gets bigger and bigger it is just going to translate into better and better things, not only for the musicians, but for people
more like ‘what do ya got?’ They are very straight forward. How sick are you of the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons? K.B. I’d like to see that go away more than the Chicago hype and that only happens to us because we are friends with the band. It used to bum me out, but now it doesn’t phase me. The only thing that bums me out is when kids arrive at a show and want us to play all of C;ish. N.J. The only connection between us and the Pumpkins is that I get all my Amway products from James Iha. I get all my Amway products from James. What about Billy Corgan producing the Sleepy EP? K.B, He co-produced the EP. Of course you’ll read that he produced, masterminded and told us what to play. N.J. He was our Sven Gali and he shaped us. K.B. Basically he had some time off after the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ tours...one of their tours. I can’t remember which one...before they recordedsiamese Dream. He came into the studio, we’re buddies. He came in and said ‘I’d like to produce a couple of songs’ and we said ‘cool.’ And the whole thing got blown out of proportion, way out of proportion. We are sort of the same age, we’ve got the same influences, we like rock music, which can be said about any other band from Chicago. N.J. I’m just surprised that no one has noticed our C.C.R. influences. Styx, Survivor...you want to talk about the Chicago scene, let’s talk abut REO Speedwagon,
N.J. Yeah, we need another guitar store in Chicago. Since all this has happened...for a decade there was only two places to play in Chicago that were considered legitimate, and that has doubled. There’s two more really good venues in Chicago. That’s outstanding. That translates into people being more willing to make the effort to play in a band, and more people going to see bands that they have never heard of before just because they are generally interested in seeing something new. That’s exciting. K.B. I don’t think that record companies are coming to Chicago and signing shit bands. I think they are signing bands that have been doing it for a long time, and are worthy of getting signed. If bands like Urge Overkill or Smashing Pumpkins didn’t spark this, bands would still be playing, out every night. It’s not like record companies are coming ‘in and giving bands a million dollars. The bands are signing to small to medium sized record deals. NJ. Chicago has a natural cynicism to it, so people don’t swoon over record companies. They are
remember - they are from Chicago. They for some reason are from a different part of Chicago that doesn’t get thrown into that Chicago scene. We tend to get thrown into that Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, and Veruca Salt category. Seam, Tar...all those Touch and Go bands. Those bands rarely get any kind of Chicago press. Red Red Meat is a Chicago band that is signed to Sub Pop. The only time they get thrown in is when Billboard does a story. There is going to be a third and fourth and fifth wave of bands, there are going to be so many. Triple Fast Action just signed a deal and you’ll be hearing from them. J.B. Figdish has got something going on. N.J. Also keep in mind Drag City Records, who put out the first Pavement records, that’s a Chicago label. Are you familiar with Canadian music? JB. I’ve heard The Tragically Hip. They play in Chicago all the time. They play at least once a month. I actually thought they were a Chicago band.
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that is. Which is not to say it isn’t entertaining, it’s just that the novice listener of ambient techno would find Amber mercilessly dull. It dosen’t pound along with driving dance rhythms or impose a sonic assault on the listener. Instead it successfully relies on slight beats and taps cruising along, changing ever so slightly as the songs progress until they become something different entirely. “Silverside” is one of only a few tracks that samples actual human voices, muffled beyond recognition, while a synth loop that apes strings lulls over oddly
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The arrival of a new King Crimson album, especially when it’s a decade since the last one, is acuuse celebre for fans on the one hand and a target of derision from calculating critics on the other. As if anticipating the cuts of the latter, the band’s first single off the new album is a catchy little track titled, simply, “Dinosaur” (“When I look back on the past, It’s a wonder I’m not yet extinct.“) The song sufficiently demonstrates, I believe, the innate humour of a band that’s all too often criticized for being too serious. That’s only one in any number of volleys that’s battered around the band. The others generally revolve around stuff like, “They’re too old,” or “Too much technique and too brainiac,“or ‘me lyrics are stupid.” On almost al1 counts, how-
moving beats. Elsewhere there’s other elements to keep an attentive listener interested. “Glitch” has an unsettling keyboard backbeat that resembles the sound of someone beingelectrically shocked, and “Nine” (which just to be wacky ends up as track seven) has desolute keyboards reminiscient of Sabres of Paradise’ “Smokebelch II,” especially as it contains no beats whatsoever. Basically it sounds (to my ears anyway) like the soundtrack to icicles forming on a cold clear January day, and those cliffs are the scenery in which it all takes place. Nevertheless, an album of this kind of minimalism does have a tendency to grow tiresome (I must confess to taking some great naps to this album} and moreover Autechre are simply not talented enough to really grab their listeners like, say, the Orb or Orbital would. Still, there’s more than enough vision here to justify its existence in some sort of blissed-out parallel universe. It may be wallpaper wherever you play it, but it ends up rnaking that room your favorite in the house.
tint - but for my money, l&h Dye seem to add a Germanic decadence and melancholy to their undeniably Yankee influences (Sonic Youth apparently looming largest among them). The voices of Piet and Sebastian seem to be struggling with the language at least as much as they are with the emotions expressed, an effect that somehow only heightens their power. And as for I-Ieike, mistress of the bass, her lovely vocals on “Poolhouse Blue” exist in a wonderful world of their own. Song structurewise, 18th Dye are fluidly dynamic, with natural peaks and valleys that transcend thecliched loud-soft segues so many clueless wonders rely on. Their musical talent is unassuming but
powerfully imagined, with the whole always greater than the sum of the parts. My favorites, for the record, are the instrumental opener “Glass House Failure” (in which isolated musical passages come together and kick up a ruckus) and the aforementioned amazing marathon “Poolhouse Blue,” with its heartwrenching chord progression and noisy breaks, There’s more, tho’: slow burns (“Sole Arch”) and pop gallops (“Galsong”) as well as jagged, prickly pears like “Play w/You” and “D.” 18th Dye’s debut Done was an unexpected thrill; Tribute 10 a Bus is Less of a left-field surprise, but still a superb blend of arty experiments and loveable tunes.
ever, I’m inclined to dispute. Yes, they are old, serious, extremely technical, overtly cerebral yet lyrically non-sensical. They’re also whimsically funny and lighthearted, and unbelievably fierce and passionate. What they are is the sum total of a collection of truly one-of-a-kind unique musical innovators. The current line-up is the fifth King, looking remarkably like the fourth version, Featuring leader Robert Fripp and the rest of the 80s cast -- guitarist Adrian Belew, bassist/stick-man Tony Levin and drummer Bill Bruford -- the band has now been padded-out with the additions of an extra drummer and bassist in Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn respectively. The band is hence known as The Double Trio. THRAK is the culmination of the band’s latest foray. Six of the album’s songs were released as a “calling card” EP earlier in the year in versions that came from the band’s first rehearsals. The versions here sound remarkably similar. Upon first listen, the new al-
bum seems to be less a continuation of the 80s triptych than a return to the brute synchopation and stylings of the mid-70s Red. This is readily apparent in the THRAK’s opening tracks “VROOOM” and “Coda: Marine 475”’ as well as the album’ s aptly-named title-track But there’s also plenty of different things that continue to grow on you, from the implausably interesting drum exchange “B’Boom” (I normally despise drum solos) to the achingly gorgeous numbers “Walking On Air” and “One Time,” with Belew’s vocals and his and Fripp’s sweet dual guitars reminiscent of Discipline’s “Matte Kudasai” and ‘The Sheltering Sky.” Critics may well dismiss them as “dinosaurs” and *‘pretentious,” but for my money they remain the only Prog Rock band truly capable of creating anything of contemporary relevance. It’s hard to get beyond them, even when naming the likes of Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno and David Sylvain. All of them, you see, brethren and collaborators of the mighty Crimson.
all of Pure Phase was written around a few chords, and only one key. For all of this structural simplicity, this is in reality one of the most complicated albums in ten by Greg Hood-Morris years. It covers new ground in such Imprint staff a way that only Spiritualized could have done. 1992’s Lazer Guided “Every night 1 stay up late/ Melodies was ground breaking. Make my state more desperate” Pure Phase continues to mine Pierce “Makes me feel so good, makes sonambulistic meanderings, with me feel so fine.” this album sounding much more classical, much more important. It’s On “Medication,” the lead song in their cover of Laurie Anderson’s on Spiritualized’s first studio al“Born Never Asked,” it’s in the bum in three years, lead singer/ Balanescu quartet (the string group songwriter Jason Pierce manages frequently employed by Kraftwerk) to run the entire gamut of human on “Spread Your Wings.” It’s in the emotions, from tired desperation, music. Oh God, is it in the music. to ecstatic joy. Perhaps they were Take the day off. Go to a hill, never more closely related. and lay back in the sunshine. Let Spiritualized, Britain’s notorithe liquid wind float around your ous trance rockers, known as much ears in perfect stereo. Feel the earth for their lethargy, and heroin habslip away beneath you for an hour, its, than for their fine up-lifting gliding sharply on the slippery wind. music have released Pure Phuse It feels like being drunk, head spininto a market full of capital Pning, senses reeling, trying to expel fuckingcorporate Punk bands. the poison. Please stop this spinWhat fans of Green Day ning... .& and Offspring probUntil you embrace it, % ‘+&.‘ $9 ably don’t realize X shining into your is that Pierce’s bosom. Feel this old band, Spaceenergy take you men 3, along higher, more euwith fellow phoric than noise makers, ,, you’ve ever My Bloody been. Past the Valentine . . ...\. atmosphere, x ..K, probably did into the dark more for modreaches of em music, visspace. The sun a-vis distortion warms you still, as .& and sound ma‘; you plunge further nipulation than f$ and further into the &, +++i Bobbie-Jo andTre Cool solar system. Saturn, will ever do. Neptune, Pluto and finally Spacemen 3 wore their influyou’re out into the unknown, where ences on their sleeves - The Stooges, nobody has ever been. Inside your The Velvets, Suicide, the MCSeyes, the wind still racing around breeding the now endemic “record you, you see the cold distant whirl of Andromeda. collection rock.” In Spiritualized there is much learning, influences Whirling and spinning. Please hidden in shadows behind the take me forever. Finally uavelling grooves, tobe brought out, caressed, past, past the edge if the universe, in the music, much listening, hardwhere it has expanded no further, soft and even casual. It’s a love of you see a light, warm and friendly and inviting. This is the end. And minimalism, of tenderly laying instrument on top of each other, to you are back on earth. create a full orchestral sound. (time to press “repeat”) It’s interesting to realize that
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Foetus, a.k.a. Jim Thirlwell, has been recording music for 14 years, so you’d think by this time he’d be good at it. Not so. Gash is a musical confusion of shitty vocals, nonsensical lyrics, boring mixes and
conflicting styles. The most annoying thing about this record is that Foetus doesn’t know how to sing to the music. After about five tracks, you begin to wonder if he was singing to the same music on the disc, Considering he’s a terrible vocalist, it really doesn’t matter. This guy can’t sing in one voice, let alone the dozen he attempts.The worst are his screaming choruses on a track called “Downfall.” Of course, vocals aren’t the only thing wrong with Gush. The lyrics are inane and confirm the impression that Thirlwell is trying too hard to be “alternative.” Take “Verklemmt” for instance: “It came down from the prophet/Derived from dime store books/By day I strangle chickens/ Trapped in my own bad looks.” Or how about “Mortgage”: “My dreams overflow/With heights and malt liquor/Elastic forms of escape/ From twenty-year old threads/And parasitic dread/Why do I bother?/ Why do I bother?’ Why indeed. During his invisible career, Thirlwell has made 32 recordings under 19 different identities. If you sucked this bad, you’d probably end up changing your name 19 times
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by Jason Gropp Imprint staff With the increasing trendiness of tribute albums, it seems surprising that one dedicated to The Who is appearing only now. The British rock giants have a world-wide following, and could be considered “cover-friendly,” This compilation is fairly lowkey, when compared to the megahyped Kiss/Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath tributes. That does not hint at any weakness in the effort, however. The acts are all British (I believe - there are some I am unfamiliar with). There are a couple of established bands, namely Blur and Swervedriver, that give a certain degree of commercial appeal to the compilation. Blur’s cover of “Substitute” is surprisingly raw, and can rival the version done by The Ramones. Another comparison of this nature can be seen in “The Kids are Alright,” as covered by The Revs,
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which harkens back to the same song done by the Forgotten Rebels. “Boris the Spider” is arguably the best song on the compilation, achieving the perfect mix of imitation and originality. Recorded by Mint 400, Boris is a song quite unique in its original form, and thus is probably the Who tune best suited to a recording of this nature. There are some songs, though, that would have been better left in the recording studio. Ian McLagen and the Bump Band’s version of “Pictures of Lily,” albeit a difficult song to cover, and Buck Pets’ “Bargain” both sound like they were recorded in a karaoke bar. They certainly lacked the spirit of the other tracks. The true worth of this album comes in the diversity of song selection. Popular Who songs, like “My Generation” and “Pinball Wizard”, are discarded for more obscure tracks, like “The Good’s Gone” and “Glowgirl.” Thus, this album can hold appeal for many die-hard fans, either of the Who or of the bands on the album. It’s a win-win situation for both sides, with the sweets of victory to be savoured by the listener.
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There have been enough tribute albums in the past few years to last most music fans (myself included) a lifetime. Undaunted by the number already in stores, witness yet another in the seemingly unending line of tribute albums. This time out the artists pay homage to southern rocker Tom Petty. Petty has had a lucrative career with enough hit singles to warrant a tribute album. The question remains: why use some virtually unknown artists to cover the songs of a man that seems to have had little influence on them? This seems like an awfully strange tactic to showcase new artists. For the most part the tribute album does little justice to the songs but does highlight a few up and coming artists. Small chance of someone picking this up for the Petty tunes and get turned onto one of these emerging artists, but it happened in my case. Picking up YOU Got L+uck~ out of sheer curiosity I was delighted to find almost every artist put a different twist on their Tom Petty song. Not till were great and the worst songs tended to be straight copies of the originals. Emerging Portland trio Everclear rip through “American Girl” in fine college rock fash-
hinting slightly at their love for raw power chords. Fig Dish’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” is another dead ringer for the Petty original except for a heavy bass and drum kick added to the mix. Miniature lets the guitars wail and manages to rock hard and fast on “Century City,” by far the best track on Yuu Got Lucky. Sub Pop artist Dexter Methoropham caps off the tribute quite nicely with some subdued piano and great vocal work on “Southern Accents.” For the most part, the songs on YOCCGot Lucky are an interesting listen but forgettable. For the uninitiated, it’s best to check out Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits. You could have no better introduction.
albums are for, right? But 4 Non Blondes doesn’t seem to want to try anything different, and instead sounds like a lame version of an overplayed song from more than twenty years ago. One of the worst for this is “Good Times, Bad Times,” covered by Cracker. Cracker is a straight- forward rock group, and “Good Times, Bad Times” is a straight-forward rock song from the Zeppelin debut. But the result is not even remotely interesting, because Cracker doesn’t do anything with the song. They just play it the same as it was first recorded, removing any reason to listen to the new version.
There is one bright spot. *‘Fool in the Rain” is given a neat Latin American beat by Mana, and the result is very god. That is the first track, however, and the only other attempt to re-interpret the original comes at the end. Ironically, the closing track, “Down By the Seaside” by Zeppelin original Robert Plant and Tori Amos, is by far the worst on the album. Plant and Amos drag the song out for a tortured seven and a half minutes of utter garbage, more than overcompensating for Mana’s creativity. Perhaps the other groups stuck so closely to the originals after hearing Plant and Amos annihilate their song so completely, preferring to be boring rather than pathetic. Whatever their reason, the resulting album starts with a neat cover, and then bogs down with a dozen songs ranging from simply boring or uninspired to p’lre shit.
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Tribute albums to classic rock greats seems to be a trend, with Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Elton John, and others all getting covered by today’s stars. Unfortunately, Enctmium, a tribute to Led Zeppelin, suffers from the same fate of most tribute albums: it sucks. Most of the groups featured are quite good, to be honest: Cracker, Sheryl Crow, Helmet, Stone Temple Pilots, Rollins Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Tori Amos, and others (including a worn down Robert Plant) are all respectable in the their own right. But none of them are as good as Led Zeppelin when it comes to doing a Led Zeppelin song. And therein lies the problem. The vast majority of the artists seem far too afraid of Zeppelin’s image to try to do anything different. Instead, they imitate as much of the original song as possible, only without sounding like Zeppelin. Take 4 Non Blondes’ version of “Misty Mountain Hop”; it sounds the same -- almost identical --to the original, until Linda Perry destroys it by singing. She doesn’t sound anything like Plant, which could be interesting -- a whole new take on the song, right? That’s what tribute
than imaginative rendition of “Here Comes My Girl”. “Even The Losers” by Nectarine is hardly up to snuff but Silkworm manage to mellow out “Insider” to just the right speed. Loud Lucy scratches out a classic rock version of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” that is not much different from the original, save for the Bryan Adams style hoarse vocals. Edsel romps through a heavy handed yet very likeable version of “You Got Lucky.” Punchdrunk rambles through a rough take of
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It’s Friday, and that means it’s time for another Fall album. It’s hard not to take The Fall for granted. Just for the record, this is number twenty eight since their 1978 debut and Cerebruf Cuustic marks their second album in less than a year. Their prolific nature isn’t as impressive as their constant level of excellence. Their last three albums
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The Muffs have almade a significant contribution to the present music landscape. It was their self-titled debut that inspired Green Day to sign to Reprise. Green Day went on to borrow the band’s management, A&R team, and production personnel. Green Day went on to multi-platinum success while The Muffs product: albums just as good but linger in the shadows. Blonder und Bhder is another fine example of production-perfect pop punk. It does everything it shouldto keep you interested while maintaining a certain simpleness that gives punk records theircharm. The guitars are nice and crisp. The
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at their simplest. “Agony” is a strong start to the album with it’s catchy guitar lines. That’s folIowed by the solid “Oh
peak the interests of the thousands of teenage radio listeners who have probably already seen the movie twice. Not a bad tune, but not a great tune either. If that doesn’t do it, then there is *‘Five-O, Five-O” by 69 Boyz, “Boom Boom Boom” by Juster, or “I’ve got a little something for you” by MN8, all of which can join the ranks of the pop commercial crap of such artists as Tag Team and K7. You can be sure that these will be one hit wonders, if hits at all. On the Hip HOQ side of things,
“So many things” by Warren G, “Me against the world” by 2-PAC, and “Da B Side” by Da Brat featuring The Notorious B.I.G. deliver as expected. With smooth beats and lyrics, these tracks make the album a worthwhile endeavour. Along with that, other saving graces are
album a year, you’re going to have to be amazingly amazing as a rule if you don’t want people to become bored. The second side starts off with an obscure Zappa cover, “I’m not Satisfied.” It seems as though M.E.S. can’t bring himself to write lines like “I just wished somebody would care if I was gone,” so he steals them from other artists. “The Aphid” picks things up a bit with another quick jam. It’s fun, but doesn’t really go anywhere. Every album needs to contain the obligatory “what a completely incomprehensible, unlistenable piece of noise” and The Fall duly oblige with “Bonkers in Phoenix.” The last two tracks, “North West Fashion Show” and “Pine Leaves” are essentially instrumental pieces, and certainly don’t add anything to the album. In light of a mediocre album, it’s especially easy to take The Fall for granted, but such things are relative. Relative to 90% of the albums released last year, Cerebral Caustic is an inventive, challenging listen. It’s easy to judge The Fall by their own standards. “Oh, it’s not as good as their last album.” Maybe not, but it’s a damn sight better than the shit I hear on the radio every day. Nina” which features a beat more infectious than ebola. The album then runs through some songs which are poppier in nature. Of these “Sad Tomorrow” and “End it All” are the standouts. The only real weak track is “Laying on a Bed of Roses” which steals the melody from Billy Joel’s “You May Be Right.” The group gets rougher as the end nears. Shattuck’s growl makes the rough and raunchy “Ethyl My Love” soar. Her slashing guitar work is the highlight of the chaotic ending to the penultimate number “I’m Confused.” Finally she shows just how pretty she can be with the fragile “Just A Game.” These last songs serve as a tribute to how versatile she can be. This album is a lot of fun. While it doesn’t offer up much different from the current glut of popular punk Kim Shattuck’s personality keeps it from fading into the crowd.
the slow R&B jams from the likes of Jonathan B. and Babyface, Xscape, and Keith Martin. And to top it all off, you get the ever popular “Bad Boys” from Inner Circle and a new hit from Ini Kamoze. And finally, what’s a soundtrack with the title theme. Like Beverly Hills Cop’s “Axe1 F,” the “Theme From Bad Boys” is sure to be used again for the sequel. It’s not a track that you’ll play over and over again, but it adds just a taste of the movie to round off the soundtrack. The soundtrackdoes the movie justice, as it combines a little bit of styles, jams, and flavours to satisfy most tastes. And if nothing on this CD is especially to your liking, then it would probably be best to avoid the movie as well.
background vocals also add to the song. From there on, though, the album slips into an abyss of boring music. The next interesting thing to happen is the female voice on the chorus in “Chihuahua.” The worst part is that “Chihuahua” is the tenth song on the album. Between this and the opening track there is 8 songs of blah, blah, blah. The songs aren’t incredibly bad. There is just too much sameness to each. There is always this overproduced wall of guitar that subsides for some vocals and a sim-
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The only other track that caught my ear was “Pothead.” This song stands out because the guitar really grinds. It’s the only song where there is a rough edge to the sound. The production 1~11s the listener to sleep (literally) on the other tracks. If only the same production was applied everywhere. It would keep the audience listening. These aren’t bad songs; they might have worked. Instead, they have created the sleepy bedtime album of the year.
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The first three times I made an effort to listen to this album I fell fast asleep. You may want to comment about my concentration abilities but I think the fault lies with Mystery Machine. “Pound For Pound” opens the record interestingly enough. It features a dense guitar wail with a great driving beat. The distorted
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General Public is back together after a nine year hiatus, but after listening to Rub It Better one wonders why they even bothered. This polished dancefloor fodder is nowhere as good as previous General Public albums (which were average at best) and is more on par with the less exciting solo attempts by both Ranking Roger and Dave Wakeling, Glossy pseudo-ska holdovers like “It Must Be Tough” and “Hold It Deep” with its heavy overdose of keyboards, are nothing less than mindless club songs. General Public used to offer a modest reggae/rock blend full of overt sexuality and carefully crafted beat heavy shakers. This ability seems lost in the past. Rub 1~Better lacks the teeth to pull off any of their former glory. Devoid of any sort of substance,
this fluff filled piece of work is destined for the delete bins. Even guest toasting by Pato Banton is not enough to save this. At one time, General Public were able to take the best of reggae and rock and condense it into fun music to shake your booty to. Sadly, what we get here is an uneventful, technologically cumbersome, comeback attempt. This last ditch stab at reviving a pair of failing solo careers is hardly worth it. Best to wait for the next Fine Young Cannibals album and hope that the other half of the Beat have fared much better.
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Another live album? This makes it number five for Mr. Zimmerman, not a good start. To make matters worse, the song selection is predictable and Dylan rolls through “Like a Rolling Stone,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “The Times They are a-Changin”’ and “Knockin’ on Heaven’ s Door.” For “Like a Rolling Stone,” this marks about its tenth time on an official Dylan release. That is bullshit. There are a few nice surprises, *‘John Brown,” a song from ‘63 sees its first official release, and the minimalist rendition fits the savage anti-war song well. Likewise, the opener “Tombstone Blues” and the outtake “Dignity”come across well, but fails to make up for the rest of the album’s predictability.
“Desolation Row” is here (in abridged form) but pales in embarrassing comparison to the original version. Ironically, it’s the original “unplugged” material such as “With God on Our Side” and “The Times They Are aChangin’ ” that really fail on this album.Tbe performances of these standards is.. .standard. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door/ just like so many times before/ just like so many times before,” sings Dylan. Just like so many goddamn times before indeed. All in all, another lacklustre live album from an artist with a history of lacklustre live shows. It’s probably one of his best live albums, unfortunately with monstrosities like the double “Live at Budokan” out there, that’s not saying much. If Dylan or MTV had been a bit more adventurous, they would have lost the band altogether and made “Unplugged” earn its name. Unfortunately, the chemistry that Dylan had with groups like The Band is gone and it seems like no one can match the magic of Dylan’s older material - least of all Dylan himself.
“Wuss Metal.” Currently, my opinion is riding somewhere in the middle. Martin was canned very near the completion of the album, so even though he doesn’l actually appear on the album (all his parts have been re-recorded by new axeman Trey Spruance), his trademark sound still crops up a great deal. Coupled with Billy Gould’s standard, funky bass, this album still instantly sounds like a Faith No More album. The band shows that they’re still capable of grind-
ing out loud, abrasive metal like “Get Out,” then smaltzing right out on a track like “StarA.D,” Faith No More has always had the ability to surprise their listeners. Remember, this is a band who did a serious cover of the Commodore’s “Easy.” The record certainly qualifies as one that requires a great deal of plays before a truly informed decision can be made. Repeated listens 0 Angel Dust reaped huge rewards, and I see no reason not to believe that King For A L@p will eventually do the same.
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For all but the most ardent fans, Dylan has, especially in recent years, proved to be the epitome of the rock dinosaur. Releasing less new material in the past five years than even the Stone Roses, Dylan has been resting on his laurels. While I will be the first to defend most of Dylan’s output, very little of his latest excursions remotely hint at how good a singer and songwriter he actually is (was?). His last album was the third installment of his greatest hits, a haphazard collection, to be true, but it did remind fans of why they ever liked him. The two albums prior to that were old blues covers which may have had a personal attachment for Dylan but proved of only marginal interest to fans. The previous release was The Bootleg Series, a treasure trove of unreleased material which was stunning, but hardly new. We have to go all the way backto 1991 toseeanalbumofnew and original Bob material, but Under r!ze Red sky easily ranks as one of his worst albums. So now we have Dylan moving into MTV’s embodiment of commercialism, and recording an album for the Unplugged series.
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IMPRINT, Friday, May 19,1995
Reid Staff
I peeled the shrink wrap from this CD with the distinct feeling that I was holding Faith No More’s final album in my hands. Numerous rumours of the fulfilment of contract obligations, quarrels between band members, and the eventual sacking of founding guitarist Jim Martin have left me with the impression that after this tour, this band will be IZO more. Because of this assumption, I had serious fears that the band had thrown together a collection of crap to satisfy the last album in their record deal so that they could just get away from each other. Thankfully however, that doesn’t appear to be the case. The band’s previous record, 1992’s commercial flop but critically acclaimed Angel Dust, was an album that needed time to grow on the listener. Unfortunately, most of the public didn’t give the record a chance, and the album will probably always be viewed as a weak follow-up to their 1989 breakthrough sophomore effort, the multi-platinum From Out Of Nowhere. But the reality is, Angel Dust was a vastly superior album that required repeated listens. My hope is that King For A Day is also that kind of an album. On initial listens, I actually thought it was much too noisy a record. It seemed to have no sense of melody, creating noise just for the sake of noise. But after a few more listens, I began to side with the NME review that suggested Faith No More had turned into
by Heather Calder Imprint staff The members of the Haitian band Boukman Eksperyans have had a tough couple of years, and the fact that they got this record out at all is a miracle. After the coup d’etat against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the embargo that followed, their song “Jou MaI?” (Day of the Shock) was banned by the military for being insubordinate. Their fans were tear-gassed and beaten at their concerts. In 1994, bass player and drummer Michel-Melthon Lynch contracted meningitis, and could not be given life-saving antibiotics as a result of the trade embargo. Two weeks after Boukman buried him, they went on tour - only to find that
they weren’t allowed into the United States, and had only 24 hours left on their British visas. Island Records flew them to Jamaica, where they waited out the embargo and recorded Lib&e. Despite, or maybe because of the events of the past four years,
this album is incredibly upbeat. The nine members of the band often sound as though they are having a party, shouting and clapping in the background. The first song, “Legba,” sounds almost African, combining soft harmonies with repetitive lines and maracas. The band uses guitars, heavy percussion, brass and Haitian French lyrics to create a sound that never gets tired. The recordings are well balanced, and the voices of the band are beautiful. The lyrics of the songs appear in both English and Haitian, and reading them gives you a good sense of the diversity of Haitian culture. The band talks about Voddoo, Christ, Buddha, Yahweh, God, and various African spirits in equal terms. The album really is a call to liberation: “E! Libete pran prou’w pran’l/ Eh! Freedom, it’s yours for the taking” (Lib&e). Other songs lament the events in Haiti and other troubled places in the world, urging people to stand up for themselves: ‘They can bring Uzis, they can bring canons I’m not afraid of them/ YO met pote wouzi, yo met pote kanno m’pap p& yo” (Jou Malk). If you like international music, or are looking for something funky yet harmonic, Boukman Eksperyans is perfect.
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