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Friday November 3, 1995 Volume f 8, Number 16
Assault allegations cause controversv
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ast Thursday morning over thirty uninvited students burst into a meeting. They were furious about a decision by UW President James Downey regarding allegations of sexual assault and other transgressions by Professor Sehdev Kumar. The meeting was between several undergraduate students, University Secretary Lois Claxton, De,an of Environmental Studies Jeanne Kay and the University’s attorney, Reg Haney. Professor Kumar organized and supervised a field trip to India in August of 1994. While the students allege that Professor Kumar led them to believe that the trip was affiliated with the univer* < r\ P srty, rroressor Lois Claxton Kumar maintains that, “all of the correspondence the students received was on C-CHEC (CanadaCommonwealth Human Ecology Council) letterhead,” and that he was clear in separating the field trip from the university. Nevertheless, several students returning from the trip were still under the impression that they would receive academic credit for participating in the trip. Only one student involved, not a WW student, received the promised academic credit. The students also point to a handbook for the course they received, which highlighted UW affiliation on its first page. The most serious of the allegations, however, is that of sexual assault. The student complainants maintain that Professor Kumar assaulted one female student on two separate occasions: once by fondling her, and another by forcing a kiss on her mouth. Kumar denies these as well. The incidents allegedly occurred while hiking through the Himalayas. The students returned to Canada at the end of August, and registered their complaints with Kay. When Kay was asked for comment as to her actions at this point, she noted that while she invited Professor Kumar to discuss the charges, he cancelled several appointments. Kay stated that her investigation into the aIlegations was supplemented by
consultations with Jim Kalbfeisch, the Vice President Academic Affairs, Claxton, and Haney. When Kay recommended dismissal proceedings, the University of Waterloo’s Board of Governors followed procedure and appointed “the President to act as a committee of one to decide the case on the Board’s
felt that a penalty of six months’ salary would be more appropriate. According to Downey’s statement, “The first offence, fondling, was committed in a setting where others were present and able to come to the student’s assistance had Professor Kumar not desisted. The second, kissing on the mouth,
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behalf.” After investigation of both sides of the evidence, President Downey concluded in his October 30 statement to the UW community that despite Kumar ’ s emphatic denials, “I too found [the victim] to be credible and accepted her recollection of the events.” This view was reiterated by the University’s lawyer, who observed that the victim and witnesses were beyond re-
occurred some days later when Professor Kumar was alone with the student.” The crucial factor according to Downey, while not forgiving Kumar’s actions, is that no force was used, so in the range of possible definitions of sexual assault, these incidents are not the worst possible although not by any means minor. It should also be noted that through Downey’s statement, he often describes the incident as
“By alluwing him to keep wurking on campus, and have contact with students, Downey is giving a greater opportunity tu Sehdev Kumar tu do it again.” preach. Claxton and Kay both nodded agreement to this. Despite agreeeing on their interpretation of the allegations, Dean Kay and President Downey differed as to the appropriate punishment for the offences. While Kay had recommended dismissal, Downey, called the actions “inexcusable and warranting a severe penalty,” and
“sexual harassment,” not sexual assault. The victim’s statement to the University clid, however, clearly allege that Kumar directed participants to turn out the lights, and also that she was forced to fight him off over a period of approximately twenty minutes. In fact, she believes that the only factor which de-
terred Kumar was the arrival of the trip’s guides with the party’s gear. Another student involved in the case, after reading Downey’s statement, questioned exactly what would constitute “force” to him. They interpret the President’s statement as shifting blame to the others present for not intervening. While Professor Kumar maintains his innocence, the students ate disgusted at the apparent leniency of the penalty. One student involved with the case commented that, “By allowing him to keep working on campus, and havecontact with students, he [Downey] is eiving a greater opportunity to Sehdev [ Kumar] to do it again .,_ Sehdev is in a position where he has a lot of power.” The University ’ s inability to recognize the severity of his actions is a major concern they have. Regarding Downey’s decision, the victim said in an interview with Imlprint this week that “I’m not happy with the way things have turned out, but I’ve got to get on with my life.” She reiterated that she has spent a year of her life supporting the University’s process, and that this has detrimentally affected both her health and her academic standing. She did this in the belief that the University would deal with the situation, and ensure that no student was jeopardized by Kumar again. While Dean Kay acknowledged that the university’s President must have the power to overturn the decisions of administrators, she also stated that “I put a lot of care and thought into the case before I[ made my decision to initiate d&missal proceedings, and I stand by my decision.” President Downey consulted with a number of individuals to confirm that it would be acceptable for Professor Kumar to return to classroom duties. One of those who concurred was Department
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lull has fallen over Canada, and the country is filled with relief. A “no” vote means, despite the small margin of victory, that Quebec cannot yet separate. We are still a united country. Canadians from east to west ask each other what will happen now; how will Jean Chretien handle the present situation? And, perhaps more importantly, what is the present situation? With 50.6% of the popular vote, the “no” side has emerged victorious. Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, has blamed his side’s loss on “money and the ethnics.” Daniel Johnson, leader of the “no” side, stressed, as he made his post-referendum speech, that he spoke to all Quebeckers. He called for the reconciliation of the country, and that all those whose dream has not been realized should now be embraced with open hands and open hearts. It is now, he said, the job of the “no” side to broaden its coalition. The L’n~*’ side won by only 40 000 votes. Nevertheless, this margin indicates two very important things. First, change within a united Canada remains a feasible possibility. Second, and perhaps more important, that the unity rally held in Montreal on October 27 may have had the desired effect. Within48 hours, the country seemed to have mobilized the country outside of Quebec into action. For the first time, the residents of Canada were asked to show how they felt about the province of Quebec. One hundred and fifty thousand Canadians poured into la Place du Canada of Montreal, all of whom were dedicated to the preservation of Canadian unity. Among them were Then go, enough residents of Kitchener-Waterloo to fill 11 buses. Two of these buses began their trip to Montreal from the Church Colleges associated with University of Waterloo. Tom Brenner, professor of Social Work at Renison College, was largely responsible for the organization of these buses. Early Thursday morning, Prof. Brenner was contacted by Andrew Telegdi, Waterloo’s member of parliament and past University of Waterloo president, and asked if he would take responsibility for assembling two buses full of interested students to travel to Montreal. Within a period of four hours, enough students to fill four buses had shown interest, and when the buses prepared to leave the city, students were being turned away. These two buses travelled to Waterloo’s city hall, where nine more buses were picked up, and together the 11 buses formed a convoy and
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travelled to Montreal. Mr. Telegdi boarded the buses and thanked students for showing their affection towards Quebec. He thanked them and indicated the importance of the “voice of the youth.” The buses entered Montreal with their windows filled with signs saying “Kitchener-Waterloo loves Quebec” and “Vive le Canada.” Jean Charest, leader of the Federal Conservative Party, Daniel Johnson, and Jean Chretien all spoke to the crowd of enthusiastic and patriotic Canadians. They all delivered speeches filled with emotion and expressions of nationalism. The feeling of nationalism demonstrated in Montreal is essentially unprecedented. It is not often that Canadians display their patriotism. After all, traditionally, it is the United States who are known as a flag-waving country. Yet, the Canadian flag was proudly waved throughout the province, perhaps more than ever
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before. Over and over, Canadians were reminded of and cheered for the fact that Canada is the best country in the world in which to live. Canadians were reminded again and again that too many Quebeckers feel that they are surrounded by enemies, and that it was their job to disprove this. Mr. Bouchard, Mr. Parizeau and their supporters denounced this as unfair and illegal. They claimed that the federalists had over-spent their referendum budget. They claimed that this display of affection was too little and much too late. Afterall,Mr. Bouchardcommented, this would never had happened had the ‘*no” side been leading all along. This may be true, yet it will remain forever unproven. For the time being, Canadian residents and the politicians will be left to decipher the mess of the current situation. Jean Chretien, in urging Quebec to remain in Canada,
has made manly controversial promises of constitutional change. One is left to ponder how many sovereigntist Quebeckers will be appeased by recognition as a distinct society. Mr. Parizeau, in his post-referendum speech, promised that another referendum is imminent. He claimed in this speech that his hope was for a lack of appropriate constitutional change to increase support for his campaign. As well, precedence has showed that a loss of a referendum does not necessarily mean the loss of power of its supporters. Rene Levesque, after all, was re-elected despite the 1980 referendum loss. He seemed, for a moment, to be Ihoping for and offering another chance. Despite this, the day following the referendum, he announced his resignation. He claimed that this decision had been made previous to the results of October 30. In fact, he was quoted a year ago as saying that he had no interest in being the Premier of a province. HisI goal was always to be the President of the independent country of Quebec. Jean Chretien is being criticized for starting the “no” campaign too late. The vote was too close for Canadian comfort. Presumably, the closeness ofthe vote will spur the federalists into immediate action. The Canadian public, and not the Prime Minister, is being credited with swaying Quebeckers towards federalist notions. Regardless, the future of Canada will never be the same, and the “no” rally, as it goes down as one of the most phenomenal events of Canadian history, had a significant impact on this. Clearly, it affected other Canadians as much as it did Quebeckers. Ask anyone who attended the rally, and they will tell you that it was one of the most important events of their lives. To be among 150 000 Canadians yelling “Canada” was a feeling that will never be equalled in their lives. Any doubt of the importance of Quebec, whether it be emotionally, economically, or politically, was wiped from their minds. Stories of Quebeckers losing jobs in the advent of a “yes”’ vote stirred some. Others were aff’ected by Canadians who had travelled thousands of kilometres just to support Quebec. Most in attendance simply took full advantage of the fact that their voice would be heard, and that the possibility of making a difference was there. Many Quebeckers for the “no” side carried signs thanking the rest of Canada for coming to their province to show their support. Canadians in Montreal, however, did not need to this sign of thanks. The victory of the “no” vote was enough.
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is a series of interviews cun ducted on the eve of the referendum, as the results were being announced. The first, is with Prufessor Wilson, of the Pnlitical Science Department, cunducted eariy in the evening when the “yes” vote was in the lead. The second is with Prufessor Downey, also of the Pulitical Science Department, Later in the evening, as it became obvious that the “no” side would win. The final interview, with Joanna Werden, vice-president external of the Pulitical Science Students’ Association, curttemplates the ensuing events of a victory on either side. Prof. Wilson, what do you think at this point (it is 9:OO pm and the “yes” side is leading, with 50.47 % of the popular vote, 35 % of the vote has been tabulated)? It’s not over yet, but it looks like the “yes” is going to win. But, it’s just the first step in a long process that will have to go on over the next while to sort the whole thing out. What happens tomorrow? Some people will sit down in Ottawa and some people in Quebec City will sit down and think about it. They might talk to each other the day after. I would be very surprised if the federal government hadn’t privately been thinking for a long time, without saying anything about it out loud, about what they might do in this event. If they haven’t been, then there’s something wrong with them. So, I assume, tomorrow morning, when Mr. Chretien meets a& years his cabinet, they’ll have many options in front of them. And, they’ll be some very clear papers suggesting routes to be taken on a whole bunch of questions. Do you think that there will be a lot of resentful Canadians who may not be ready to have relations with an independent Quebec immediately? What you’re saying is probably true for many Canadians. Of course, there’ll be some anger and some resentment, just as when a marriage breaks up. There’s a lot of resentment at first, although it passes very quickly. There are also a lot of cases, where a marriage breaks up, if that’s the analogy, and people are sensible enough to rise above the resentment. I think most folks in Ontario, because of their proximity to Quebec, and maybe in Atlantic Canada as well, will rise above it. The more west you go, the harder it is to this. But then, it always has been. It is the job of Canadians, over the next bit, is to get our folks to understand the real nature of what is taking place, and to have respect for, although they don’t have to agree with it, and to understand what it is, Prof. Downey, what does this seeming narrow victory for the 3w” side mean (it is now IO:30 pm and it is clear that the Uno”
what’s side will emerge victorious)? It doesn’t necessarily mean anything very definite. Had it been a narrOw “yes,” they would have proIt’s virtually deadlock. ceeded. You’ve got a province that’s split on a question of vital importance to the country and the province as well. I don’t think that this puts an end to this by any means. It’s now time for a number of constitutional deliberations for a number of months and years to come. Then what? The federal government will have to sit down and decide what it’s going to do. Will it sit still, or will it make some overtures to Quebec and to the other provinces? Obviously, it can’t go on in the current situation. Will the other provinces willing to accord to Quebec the label of distinct society? According to the outpouring we saw right near the end of the campaigns, when people got desperate thinking that the country’s going to break up, they seemed to be willing to that kind of thing. Once you get down to the nitty-gritty, it might be a lot tougher. I think the situation now is in favour of significant change, because all of the provinces want decentralization. Whether or not the separatist government is willing to accept this is another matter. They may hold this up on their own, thinking they’re going to have another day. This certainly doesn’t put an end to
number of constitutiunal deliberations for a number of months to come.
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What if it’s a yes vote? Well, first no one will recognize Quebec until Canada recognizes Quebec. Canada will have to deal with them, If they vote to separate,
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if it’s a “no” vote, we’re right back to square one, and there will be another referendum in a couple of years, all over again. We’re going to keep going through this. The vote is going to be so close that 50% of the Quebec population is voting for independence, and 50% is voting for federalism. And, 25% of the population of Canada lives in Quebec, and then 12.5% of the population of Canada voted to separate, and is really unhappy. But, even if it’s this close a %o” vote, the&yes* side will claim a moral victory, that they gained another 10% of the population’s support in 15 years. But, if we vote it down, they’re running out of options. Look at ReneLevesque, he’s spent his whole political career devoted to this kind of change, and the PQ has only gotten so far. What about the idea that Ottawa may have been preparing for the repercussions of a “yes” vote since the announcement of this referendum? Obviously, the federal government hasn’t done enough. The campaign for the “no” side had been ahead for so long, and only recently have they started to campaign heavily. This wouldn’t have been so close had the federal government had started their campaign earlier.
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IMPRINT, Friday, November 3,1995
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University of Waterloo President, James Downey has issued another letter this week addressed to the UW Communiq. In this release, President Downey explains the f;nancial penal@ imposed against a member of the faculty afrer a cumplaint of sexual assault.
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case has recently been concluded under the provisions of University policy 53, Part VII, termination of tenuredappointments. The case involved Professor Sehdev Kumar of the Department of Environment and Resource Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies. Because I consider it important for the University community . to be informed of such matters it is
my intention, at the conclusion of a case under Policy 53, to publish either a summary of my decision or, in the event of an appeal, the decision of the external adjudicator, where such a decision can be made public. A recommendation for Professor Kumar’s dismissal was made by Dean Jeanne Kay of Environmental Studies on the grounds that he had sexually harassed and sexually assaulted an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. In addition, it was alleged that Professor Kumar had failed to take adequate measures on a field trip to provide help and protection that the students required; that he had breached his obligations to adhere to reasonable and proper directions from his Dean, in particular, how the field
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trip was represented and whether or not University credits would be granted for the trip; and that he had committed unwanted touching of other participants. Professor Kumar was fully apprised in writing of all the complaints made against him and given an opportunity to respond to them. Dean Kay’s recommendation to initiate dismissal procedures was communicated to Professor I&mar, in writing, following consultation with the Vice-President, Academic & Provost. Professor Kumar subsequently indicated his intention to contest the dismissal and this was communicated to the Board of Governors by the Vice-President, Academic & Provost. As prescribed by Policy 53, the Board appointed me as a committee of one to decide the case on the Board’s behalf. Professor Kumar was fully involved as the matter proceeded and the requirements of Policy 53 were strictly followed. I met with the complainants and later with the respondent, and I considered each of the allegations against Professor Kumar and his response to those allegations. Having weighed the evidence I found that there was ample reason to conclude that Professor Kumar’ s planning and leadership of the 1994 Himalayan Field Study Program was seriously deficient and had resulted in disappointment, distress, danger, and considerable bitterness for the participants. More serious, however, as grounds for dismissal, was Professor Kumar’s sexual harassment of a femaIe student. The student recounted two incidents of sexual harassment. The first involved fondling in a tent shared by a number of the field trip participants; the second and separate incident was his kissing her on the mouth when they were alone. Since Professor Kumar denied all these allegations, for me it became a matter of credibility, of whom to believe. It was clear from my interviews with the complainants that the student’s story, when told to the group, was found credible and believed by the others. I too found her to be credible and accepted her recollection of the events. While Professor Kumar’s unethical behaviour towards her was reprehensible, the more so because of his position and the circumstances in which his behaviour occurred, it did not, in my judgment, constitute adequate grounds for his dismissal. The first offence, fondling, was committed in a setting where others were present and able to come to the student’s assistance had Professor Kumar not desisted. The second, kissing on the mouth, occurred some days later when Professor Kumar was alone with the student. When she made it clear that his advances were unw&ome he did not persist further. These offenses, though inexcusable and warranting a sever penalty, did not, I felt, justify dismissal. Since Professor Kumar had been subject to a penalty of suspension with pay since January 1,1995, 1 did not believe that a further pe-
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riod of suspension form teaching duties would serve a useful purpose. After consultation with a number of people, including Professor Sally Leaner, Chair of Environment and Resource Studies, I was satisfied that Professor Kumar posed no threat of further behaviour of this sort towards students. It was therefore my decision to impose upon Professor Kumar a penalty of six months’ salary effective July 1, 1995. In setting this penalty, mindful of the hardship such an action would cause to Professor Kumar’s family, I indicated that the University would be willing to pro-rate his salary to 75% over a two year period. Professor Kumar was required to resume normal teaching duties in September 1995. Professor Kumar was also put on notice for the duration of his employment at the University that any further substantiated allegation of sexual harassment would result in his dismissal. He was also prohibited from conduction any University of Waterloo or non-University of Waterloo sponsored field trip or tour without the written permission of the Dean. Atthough not a consideration in rendering the decision, I did comment on the matter of accounting of expenses since it was a major cause of the rupture of relations that occurred between Professor Kumar and the participants in the Himalayan Field Study Program and an issue much discussed in my meetings with the complainants. I concluded that while it was reasonable for the complainants to request that Professor Kumar provide a detailed accounting, and while their concerns appeared to have substance, this was a matter to be dealt with by the Canada-Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (C-CHEC), the organization which sponsored the field trip in
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which the complainants and others were participants. IN his submission, Professor Kumar stated that &he accounts and the report for the trip had been submitted to C-CHEC and it would therefore appear that C-CHEC is in a position to give such an accounting if it chooses to do so. Professor Kumar served notice of his intention to appeal my decision to an external adjudicator. On October 113, 1995, he wrote to withdraw that appeal. While admitting no wrongdoing, he writes in his letter as follows: I also wish to rake this uccasi0n to express my profuund regrets Co you, Dean Kay, the students cuncerned and the university at large, that I have been regarded as an instrument of disruption in the life of the Campus, or as the cause of emotional and uther strain tu several members uf the university community... InjGture, I will undertake to serve my students und colleagues at the university in the best ways possible to enhance the reputation uf the university in accurdante with the highest ethical standards. Some have expressed the view that Professor Kumar has been dealt with rather harshly. The complainants, however, feel that he has been dealt with too leniently. I can only say that I felt at the time, and still feel, based on the facts as I was able to establish them, that the penalty was appropriate to the offence. This is the first time that Policy 53, Section VII, has been used to conclusion and in the process a number of concerns about its procedures have been raised. I am supportive of a comprehensive review of Section VII in light of the experience of’ this case and two others currently underway.
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come to her attention. According to UW Policy #53, section VII (Termination ofTenured Appointments), the faculty member may appeal the President’s decision to an outside adjudicator. Professor Kumar chose to exercise this option. It is unclear whether this appeal process could have made Kumar’s punishment more severe. He stated in an interview with Imprint that an appeal could only have lightened his penalty. He believed the adjudicator would only be able to affirm the penalty or lighten it. The university lawyer however, stated repeatedly that they would attempt a dismissal of the professor in the appeal proc-
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This case won’t set a precedent either. Seven days before the hearing, Kumar withdrew from the appeal process, effectively closing the case for himself, the university and the students. Kumar claims to have done so due to health, financial and emotional reasons. He complains that he has not only been rushed to the hospital due to a minor heart attack just prior to withdrawing the appeal, but will soon declare personal bankruptcy. Kumar stresses that the emotional strain of the process has been intense, for him as well as for others involved, and that withdrawing was an attempt to end the emotional strain. “It was not an admission of wrong-doing,” emphasizes Kumar.
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It seems, however, that no one in.,! ‘. ,, : volved is happy with ’ ” the process that occurred. Professor Kumar maintains that, “All along I have denied any wrong doing. .. The allegations against me are false and malicious.” Kumar feels that he has also been the victim in the process. The students see things differently. The main issue to them is that they told the truth, participated in the University’s processes without reservation, were even characterized as “exemplary” by the University’s attorney, and despite the acknowledged credibility of their complaints, see a very minor punishment imposed by Dr. Downey. Another complaint they have is that the University’s communication with them was inadequate. The most severe case in point: when Kumar’s appeal was withdrawn, the victim found out days later in the environmental studies coffee shop. In another incident, the victim showed up for a scheduled meeting with one of the university’s attorneys, only to find out that he was in Toronto. “I just felt that no one in the administration cared, I didn’t get any respect,” she said. Kay sympathized with many of the student concems, especially those of communication with the students. She also stated that “My hope for the future is to see more student involvement in improving policies and procedures that are of concern to them.” President Downey also sees the need for re-examining the policy. In his statement, he supports “a comprehensive review [of dismissal procedures] in light of the experience of this case and two others currently underway.” In an interview he added that the
role of the President would be one of the areas examined. While Downey is not yet clear what specific changes he would like to see made, the student protesters were exacting in their demands. These demands are to have an appeal recourse for the complainants, to remove the President as sole decision-maker. to a tribunal format with students represented, and to keep complainants better-infonmed. Dean Kay and Federation of Students Vice President University Affairs Rose Bilicic will hold a special meeting of the Undergraduate Student Relations Committee later this semester to discuss this, issue. This meeting ma:y be open to concerned students. The date is yet to be set. Professor Kumar has been with the University of Waterloo since the Department of Environment and Resource Studies was founded in 1970. He has been nominated for Distinguished Teacher Award several times. The victim did observe that “I had him as a professor before the trip...1 thought he was wonderful, but 1 was sorely mistaken.”
“All along 1 have denied any wrong doing... The allegations against me are false and malicious. ”
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$1 for a T-shirt to $20 for a winter coat. All money received and leftover clothing will be donated to the Anselma House (a local shelter for battered women and their children) and the K-W Multicultural Centre. Last year’s event raised $160 and over $2000 worth of clothing, and it is anticipated that this year’s exchange will be even bigger. So why not take a break and come on out to the Clothes Exchange in Environmental Studies Building 1 from Thurs. Nov. 9 - Sat. Nov. 11. You’ll help out a good cause and maybe even get yourself some new threads
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here are Canadians who believe the erosion of our social safety net will lead to the development of a much more fascist and cruel country - for example, the United States of America. On the evening of the 16th of November, a van load of people wit1 be leaving Waterloo for Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. to participate in the founding meeting of AANCO: the Anti-Authoritarian Network of Community Organizers. There are Americans who believe that it’s time for a new grassroots, direct action, decentralized movement in cities all over North America. AANCO is what they propose. The following is their call to arms: The Anti-Authoritarian Network of Community Organizers is a united front of all anarchist and libertarian socialist groups who think we must build a broader, more militant, more ethnically diverse movement which deals with the revolution of everyday life. Community organizing is seen as the way forward for us to win power in our local communities, rather than through grandiose national projects. AANCO will be a worker/student/youth alliance: an organization of organizers to fight the crippling effects of the capitalist system. Economic exploitation, unemployment, homelessness, poverty, police brutality and racism are ills of a system in decline. We want to build a movement of thousands and ultimately millions of people to re-
sist this corrupt system and fight for a better life, which can only come with a new society. So where do we start? We think we should begin now in a realistic way in our own communities to break out of the anarchist and leftwing ghettos, interact with the people in those communities and establish a social revolutionary movement which cannot be ignored and cannot be resisted, a movement which can become a real force in people’s lives. Let us make it happen! Just some of the things on the agenda: Keynote by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, former Black Panther, Student National Coordinating Committee member and politi?a1 prisoner. Workshops on Developing Activists Into Organizers; Creative Organizing Tactics; Developing Community Communications via newspaper, radio and video; Creating sustainable community action in the face of institutional racism and police brutality, and a discussion of Resistance ‘96 at the Olympics. If you are interested in travelling to the conference, contact the WPIRG office. UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS Sat, Nov 4,9 a.m. - Take a tour of a selectively logged forest (a viable clearcutting alternative), only 25 minutes away. Call the office for more details. Mon, Nov 6,7 p.m., IX1304 Our lecture series on tranportation continues with Dave Banks, trans-
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editor of 1995’s “Beyond the Car: Essays on the Auto Culture.” Sue will be discussing assorted aspects of the automobile culture as well as economic alternatives to the auto industry. Sue is certain to bring new insight into what the auto culture has become, and what it means for “sustainability.” Plans are underway for the December 6 services. These serv-
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ello and welcome to this update of what’s been hapA Opening and what’s coming up with your Office of Student Tssues.
We are about halfway through the Transportation Lecture Series and attendance has been amazing. This is an issue students from all different faculties as well as people from the community are inFocus will be given to terested in. If you haven’t attended a lecture yet, be sure not to miss the rest of the series. Dave Banks, transport engineer for the region of Waterloo, will be speaking about the Region’s SO year Bicycle Master Plan on November 6. Having just returned from the Transices are a time to mourn the murder portation Association of Canada’s of fourteen women from Montreal’s annual conference in Vancouver, Dave will bring news of cycling Ecole Potytchnique engineering program. It is also a time to reflect initiatives from across Canada. on the issue of violence against Sue Zielinski, author and transportation plannerfromToronto, will women. This year, focus will be given to the issue of government be speaking on November 13. Co-
the issue of government cu&acks and how this affects victi*ms of violence.
portation engineer with the Region, who will be talking about bicycling initiatives. Tues, Nov 7 - The Propaganda Watch Working Group (media issues) will be having their regular meeting in SLC2133 at 3~30 p.m. Also, find out about how anything made from cotton, timber, or petroleum can be made from hemp from the 1995 documentary film The Hemp Revolution and the 1942 U .S . Dept. of Agriculture film Hempfur Victory.
Wed, Nov 8 - The Cats in Crisis Working Group (rescuing stray cats) will be having their regular meeting at the Adult Recreation Centre (185 King St. S. beside the Brick Brewery) at 7 p.m* Thur, Nov 9 - The Waterloo Regional Coalition for Social Justice will be meeting at the Adult Recreation Centre to plan initiatives to meet the growing impoverishment in our community. Also, Hazel Henderson (independent futurist, syndicated columnist, and consultant on sustainable development in over 30 countries) will speaking about recreating work and community in room 1E 1, Central Teaching Building, WLU, at 7 p.m. ($6 admission). Fri, Nov 10 - The Hemp/Forestry Working Group will be meeting in SLC2133 at 3:30 p.m. Also, Hazel Henderson will be speaking on defining the common good in the new global reality at WLU at 7 p.m. (see above). Finally, watch for information sessions on an initiative to create employment and a healthy local economy that is being organized by a new working group, the K-W LETSystem. LETS is a community barter system which links businesses and individuals and allows them to trade their skills or services (from child care, to plumbing, to dentistry) with other LETS members. These trades are recorded on the LETS computer in the form of a local currency - “green dollars.”
cutbacks and how this affects victims of violence. The December 6 planning committee is dedicated to raising funds for local women’s shelters. It is a focus of the Office of Student Issues to work together with groups on campus. This is certainly the case for December 6. So far FACETS, the Women’s Centre, the drama department, and the Engineering Society are all a part of the planning. If you would like to join us, we meet on Tuesdays at 4:OO in the SLC room 2133. I will be out of the office from November 15 to 18 as I will be attending a conference on Sexual This conference Harassment. comes at an important time for the University of Waterloo. I hope to bring back ideas and suggestions for better ways to deal with cases of harassment. There are tonnes of other events and issues going on around here so please feel free to pop down to the Fed Office any time and talk to myself, Fatema, Andy, or Cathrine.
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I think a lot of Canadians blanched Monday evening at Pierre Berton’s mentioning that the incoming Quebec referendum tallies were the most exciting and suspenseful thing that had happened to the country since the Blue Jays made the World Series. Were was one of the nation’s foremost patriots and historians equating the break-up of Canada with a comparatively trivial sporting event. Mind you, the sporting analogy wus an appropriate one for anybody who’d tuned in from 8 p.m. onward. For an evening the nation was at the edge of their seats in anticipation of the results. Victorious as Canada eventually was, or so it said on the scorecard, a growing realization clouded everything, confirmed by many that “this puts the constitutional crisis right back atop the national agenda.” It’s a sickening realization, as Prime Minister Chr&ien later told a Toronto audience Wednesday night. For the first time in ages, Chr&ien finally spoke from the heart, not from the carefully scripted pleas of emotion he’d been tossing off with regularity right up to the eve of the referendum. Canadians are appalled at the thought of another referendum as Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau suggested. What does Quebec want, a Double-or-Nothing Winner Take AH, or a Best-of-Seven? Canada doesn’t need a gun put to it’s head every decade. As far as the rest of Parizeau’s doggerel, commentators across the land were rightly, disgusted by his infamous blame on “money and the ethnics.‘* In his address the next day announcing his resignation, he didn’t relent, instead saying that his words could’ve perhaps been slightly less harsh, but that facts were facts. He said you can’t ignore the facts. One fact Parizeau seems blindly ignorant to is his own oily brand of racism. For many peopte across Canada, Pariteau’s harsh terms were confirmation of their worst fears and yet totally consistent with his platform: a Quebec, not for Quebeckers, but for French-speaking Quebeckers. It’s no coincidence that Canada’s immigration trends demonstrate an aversion tc new citizens taking up residence in la belle pruvincc. Can Quebec’s attempt at Frenchonly sign laws now be seen as anything other than kinder, gentler ethnic-cleansing laws? Blaming ethnics has always been a good scapegoat. But what really rubs me is Par&au’s intolerance in a country, Canada, that values pluralism and a multi-cultural society as highly as anything. Parizeau is a man who clearly idealizes segregation, so you might well imagine what sort of utopia he envisions his sovereign Quebec as. Ultimately, the tight vote in Monday’s referendum may yet instill a resolve in Ottawa to stop couching it’s own terms to Quebec so lightly. As I mentioned last week, much of this is good diplomacy, but look at what can be deduced from this last vote: One, apparently 50% plus one vote clearly would have been enough for the separatists. Hell, get rid of the ethnics and Parizeau’s writing a charter. And two, that many Quebeckers who voted for sovereignty were doing so under the incredible delusion that sovereignty meant a separate nation, with geographic borders intact, a full use of Canadian currency (never mind what their tidy little game of socialism would do to the dollar), and that they could still send MPs to Ottawa. The separatists certainly weren’t refuting the belief, they were the ones fanning it. So did Ottawa send out a strong enough message to these Quebeckers to give their heads a shake? Not realiy, because that would have been “bad diplomacy.” It almost destroyed the country. It’s time to speak in very precise and exacting terms, even if that means “talking tough.” The country is too precious to lose to a bunch of bullshit-spewing propagandists just because we don’t want to offend anybody.
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In reading the statement, I found it difficult to follow the logic through to its concIusion, as the emphasis on certain points often struck me as misplaced or nonexistent. So before the deluge of letters comes in, I will try to offer a rational analysis of the issues at hand. As my knowledge only covers what is in the statement, I will limit my analysis to the statement alone. First, Downey states that he has “*..ample reason to conclude that Professor Kumar’ s planning and leadership of the 1994 Himalayan Field Study... resulted in disappointment, distress, dangerand considerable bitterness for the participants’* [italics mine]. Disappointment, distress and considerable bitterness are very unfortunate, but danger? Do explain! Quite apart from any other allegations this is extremely serious. Next, Downey states that he accepted the student’s version of the events. He also states that Professor Kumar denied all of the allegations. This calls into question Professor Kumar’s honesty, or at the very least, his judgment, regarding the matter. This makes the situation yet more serious, and we have not even talked about sexual assault yet. The subsequent paragraph reads: While Professor Kumar’s unethical behaviour towards her was reprehensible, the more so because of his position and the circumstance9 in which his behaviour occurred, it did not, in my judgment, constitute adequate grounds for
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his dismissal. The first offence, attempted fondling, was committed in a setting where others were present and able to come to the student’s assistance had Professor Kumar not desisted. The second, kissing on the mouth, occurred some days later when Professor Kumar was alone with the student. When she made it clear that his advances were unwelcome he did not persist further. These offenses, though inexcusable and warranting a severe per&y, did not, I felt, justify dismissal [italics mine],
time, and still feel, based on the facts as I was able to establish them, that the penalty was appropriate to the offence.
One hopes that the mention of the setting surrounding the first offence does not imply that President Downey believes it somehow mitigates the situation. Otherwise, one could make an argument for being lenient with those accused of attempted robbery who attempted to commit the crime in broad daylight. Leniency should not be offered because the perpetrator was stupid. The act is what is at issue here. As for the punishment itself, one must heed Downey’s remarks regarding the professor’s family. If he were to lose his job, he would not be able to find work in his profession for a very, very long time. If this in turn significantly affected the future financial support of his family, such a decision would have effects beyond those intended. While this should not preclude dismissal, it should not
By including this statement, Downey seems to want to appear as though he is walking the rational lmiddle ground. Other than perhaps Professor Kumar, I would be very interested to know who the other components of “fsjome” are. Are they on crack? This is a case of whether or not he has been dealt with harshly enough. While some (sorry, I can’t resist) may see the last paragraph by Downey calling for a procedural review as a means to divert some of the attention (or blame, as it were) away from himself, a committee of one is absurd. More than one person is needed when dealing with such emotional and potentially explosive issues. The colmmittee of one should not have his reputation at stake as well. In the end, I have to disagree with President Downey’s decision. The combination of Professor Kumar’s mishandling of the trip and the sexual assault are just too much to punish with a mere salary penalty. The fact that the events occurred in a Third World country, with no recourse for the victims at the time, makes his actions unforgiveable. The relationship between student and professor in such a situation is one where the professor is someone to be relied upon by the student. He clearly violated his professional
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Professor Kumar should not be working here any longer. A message should have been sent to other professors saying that if you do this sort of thing, you lose your job, pure and simple. Instead, the message is that your Lexus may have to wait another few years. -Dave
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it to yourself. The longer you hide it and keep vital information from police, the more it occurs and hurts others. We need to keep this kind of dirtbag off the streets.
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To the Editor, A situation that reeks of coverup recently came to my attention. I would like to tell your readers about it. Last week, a courageous young woman held a demonstration on campus. The cause was not to save the whales or for Quebec not to leave Canada, but to tell the University of Waterloo about something that happened to her, something that occurs across this socalled “civilized” land of ours... sexual assault. And it seems that Waterloo is not immune to this degrading and humiliating act. From what information I was able to gather, it seems this young woman went on a $SooO trip to India for a certain class. The trip was a chance of a lifetime that turned to unhealable scars to last a lifetime. This young lady was sexually assaulted by her professor. And his sentence for this crime, a crime that he had reportedly also committed ten years ago, was a six-month suspension from teaching at the University. Her sentence, unfortunately, was life... a life of mental and physical pain and the evident “what-ifs.” And why do I feel that this is a cover-up? Simply, if this had been taken to the full extent of the law, this man would not now continue to teach at this institution; he would be in jail with the other scum who have also committed this crime. I have witnessed much as a public educator with both police and fire departments in my community, and have seen the sometimes deadly after-effects of sexual assault. I know that this is no game, but real life with real consequences. A question I propose to President James Downey, the students, faculty and alumni is this: why is the University of Waterloo condoning sexual assault, harassment and stalking - especially from its professors? This is not a game, ladies and gentlemen. This is quite serious and could be happening to your wife, sister, mother or daughter right this minute. This is not something that deserves a slap on the wrist and a “boys will be boys” speech. My God, they suspend a tenured professor for six months for sexual assault and they kick students out of university for good when they cheat on exams. I ask, which is right and which is wrong? Whoever came up with that sentence and those that supported it really should have their bloody heads examined. It is my hope that someone from Imprint will investigate this assault and get the truth out of the UW Board of Directors, President Downey, the perpetrator, Campus Police, even the goddamn garbage collectors for all I care. Or maybe the K-W Record would Ii ke this one and we can get this situation major (and potentially embarrassing) media attention. And for those who it has happened to, please do not keep
-M&thew M. Ttemblay 3rd Year Honours Arts
Regarding John Galt To the Edtior, This is in response to the forum article Who is John Gait? that appeared in theImprint on Friday, October 27, 1995. I respect James Russell’s right to hold his ownopinions, but I urge him, and others, to investigate the Christian and Muslim understandings of God before securing a position. I will try to explain my understanding of God as a Christian, and leave it to a confessing Muslim to take up the other part of this challenge. To me, religion is a complete and meaningful world view that is founded on FAITH in a SOVEREIGN God: one who created the world and those in it (through whatever method so desired), and one who has the right to absolute control. (I urge readers to look up the words in capital letters in the dictionary, even if the meaning seems apparent). Mr. Russell claims to have faith that France exists since he has been presented circumstantial evidence indicating that this is so. Interestingly enough, the New Webster’s Dictionary defined faith as “belief not substantiated by proof.” So, not only can one have faith that France exists without proving it through individual experience, but also a faith in God that is justifiable based on personal experience alone. Please, if you doubt the sincerity of the Christian faith experience, t;tlk to someone who is a dedicated professing Christian, not merely someone who attends a church. Any Christian worth their salt will be able to tell you why they believe in God, and how that affects their life. (Christians are not as hard to find as you might think!) Another concern of Mr. Russell’s is the slavery of complete obedience which God supposedly demands upon the threat of being cast into Hell. Again I would urge Mr. Russell to look into Christian theology in more depth. God calls people to “be HOLY, because I (God) am holy” (Leviticus 1 I: 4445). The Biblical imagery of Hell is “disgusting,” and no one feels that disgust more deeply than God. It is precisely God’s desire to provide an escape from the necessity of our going to Hell, and that escape is provided through belief in the person of Jesus Christ, and the meaning of his resurrection. Obedience to God is not slavery, but freedom from the consequences of being human and imperfect. Furthermore, religion is not “false comfort” any more so than believing that there is nothing after death, and then (upon the occasion of death itself) finding out that there was a choice to be made during life
Drug addiction: the gift that keeps on giving. that remained unaddressed. Neither does God mean for religion to be used as “a tool to control the masses by the elite.” Unarguably, it has been used this way in the past, but please remember that the church is composed of imperfect people. Lots of people go to church for other reasons than their love for God, and this is disturbing to Christians and non-Christians alike. The motives of such “false” Christians do not truly reflect the person of God. God is revealed in the lives of true, committed Christians, so keep looking for them. They are out there. As for Mr, Russell’s most important point, that God is not necessary for an ethical system, I’d just like us all to think back through history. Think back to the beginnings of Capitalism which took root in the social context of the Protestant Reformation. Think back to Constantine’s Rome, the Christian society from which all Western societies sprang. Think back through the history of the people of Israel, who received their law from God on some tablets. The ethics of our Western society are historically traced to the laws of the Christian God. In fact, all great societies were built around the ethical teachings of a holy book. Even in communist states, the writings of Marx are treated as holy teachings, and Socialism as a religion. “Good” and “Bad”are relative labels. There must be sume consensus regarding the standard for comparison, and who among us is wise enough to set this standard, except a perfect God who has vested interest in our existence? There are so many misconceptions about the Christian God. It’s important that these are corrected.
Please, find out what Christians really believe by contacting one of a Christian group, either on campus or at a local church. 4ebm
Harvey
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To the Editor, After reading last week’s column entitled Who is John Gait?, I was truly shocked. I am glad Imprint decided to publish the article because it gives someone a chance to respond to theideas portrayed by the article’s author (James Russell). Mr. Russell’s main argument is that religion is useless, faith is a system “for fools only,” Christians and Muslims can be compared to slaves, and God is simply a human construct used to control the population using fear. The truth is that, putting stereotypes aside, religion continues to be a very important part of life for some members of our society. Be it Christianity, Islam, or Judaism, religion’s emphasis on one’s life is not what Mr. Russell portrays it to be. Faith, good works, and love of God (not fear) are all that religion asks. I admit, T have never seen God with my own eyes nor heard him speak to me while I went on about my business. Does this mean I should not believe in him? God’s existence is one of the oldest arguments in academia. It is unfair to reach a conclusion regarding his
existence in 700 words. There is overwhelming evidence that Jesus and Muhammad walked on this earth. The scriptures based on their lives (Bible, Qur’an) are among the greatest historical recordings ever. If Mr. Russell’s arguments that religion is a creation of government (therefore, inaccurate) are true, should we ask our historians to dismiss most of the evidence of our early history found in the Bible? I find it ludicrous for someone to dismiss the credibility of religion simply due to their disbelief in the existence of God. I can honestly say I don’t consider myself a slave. Neither do I consider any Jew, Christian, or Muslim a slave to his/her religion. All religious people have simply made a choice to try to follow the word of God. It is clearly stated in both the Bible and Qur’an that man has a right of not following God if he wishes. Do all Christians, Jews, and Muslims follow God simply for the fear of going to hell? There is plenty of room for forgiving and mercy in the eyesof God. The whole idea of Christianity is based on Christ and God’s forgiveness of our sins. I am not trying to imply that there is no hell; there is a hell. We all sin, but God forgives, and through goodness and love one’s sins can be forgiven. If faith is for “fools,” as Mr. Russell implies, I am a jester. Faith has brought me happiness, comfort, and understanding. It is the very thing that ga.thers millions of people around the world into Churches, Temples, or Mosques. One must go beyond the “I’ll believe it when I see it” attitude in order to obtain faith. In my opinion, faith is beyond simple belief in God. It is a link between man and God that brings the goodness of God onto the earth. Fe;tr of going to hell is little part of my faith. Faith has much more to do with belief, respect, and understanding than it has to do with fear of punishment. Unfortunately, I think that a single newspaper column is far too little space to pro:perly discuss the topic of religion. I urge everyone who read both Mr I Russell’s article and my response to forget what they’ve read. Let your belief or unbelief in God be composed of personal thoughts,feelings, and experiences. No matter what your decision, God will always be there for you. -Luiz
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To the Edtior, This letter is in response to the October 27 column Who is John GoIt? While it m;ay or may not be commendable folr Mr. Russell to speak his mind so very bluntly, his arguments in some areas are weaker than others. First, Mr. Russell’s argument that, in the case of there being no God, religion is nothing but a false Continued
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better, so she looked toward earthly spirituality and she found Wicca. Their basic value is tolerance and mutual respect for other religions or spiritual conditions. They’re not interested in converting people and they don’t worship Satan. Other stereotypes Hazel discussed were the witch’s wardrobe and appearance. The black pointed hat came from the old period some still have them today. Black clothing was worn by many ancient witches because they were widows. The gnarled face represents the older witch. Elders are much appreciated in the Wiccan religion because they are where wisdom and faith resides. And lastly, the traditional mode of transportation for witches - the magic broom. The broom is actually a magic wand. Things that grow from the earth are used in wiccan rituals. Since the fear in the ancient times was that if you were found with a wand of any sort you would be burned at the stake, witches chose an object that was in almost every household. Therefore, the broom is simply a ritual tool and wand which is still used by many modern witches. I admit, I went to hear Hazel speak because I wanted td see what a freak who thinks she is a witch really lodks like. After hearing her speak, I have 5 new-found appreciation for her, and perhaps other
witches. Hazel took a risk going before a group of a hundred students to speak. She admits that many people today still fear “coming out of the closet” because “it’s not always easy being a witch.” Hazel didn’t preach about her religion, which impressed me. She used a lot of anecdotes and jokes to maintain an easy-going atmosphere. I was interested in how witches celebrate different seasons and the moon. “The full moon is the moment at which your wishes are most likely to come true.” Some of the myths she discussed, however, did sound a little far-fetched. Halloween is the most important night of the year for witches it is the; end/beginning of a new year. Halloween is the time of year where the distance between those of us who are still alive and those who are no longer with us is the shortest. It might sound like the start of a ghost story, but this is what witches believe. Maybe the TV show&witched wasn’t as ridiculous as I was told when I was growing up. 1 wonder what kind of witch stereotypes will exist in years to come. Any average Joe or Jane you see walking down the street may be a witch nowadays. O.ur futures may be a bit more “spooky” than we think.
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The Seasonof the Witch ’ m too old for trick or treating, and I hate to dress up, so I decided to celebrate Halloween a little differently this year. I went to hear a witch speak. The speaker, who seemed to be in her mid-forties, began her discussion by introducing herself. She is a teacher, has two kids, a cat, a dog, an inexpensive house on a quiet suburban street in Guelph, and she is a witch. I know atheists, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jewishpeople, Hindus, and Muslims; one of my relatives even claims to be a witch. I think I’m a pretty open-minded person when it comes to religion. I’ve always thought “to each their own” but a witch? Since I was a child, I have been exposed to many stories about witches, goblins and vampires. Whether these stories were in books or movies, I was always told to not be afraid because they weren’t real. The fact is that stereotypical evil old hags with warts that we associate with witches may not exist, but witches and the Wiccan religion are very much a part of reality. The speaker, let’s call her Hazel for ease of discussion, discussed how she was raised in the United Church. As an adult, she found that the Christian traditions were no longer satisfactory for her. She found herself committed to wanting to change the world for the
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ncordia CumVeritate. “In Harmony With Truth.” It’s the official motto of the University of Waterloo. But what is truth? Whatever it is, does it even matter any more? These questions were asked October 29th at UnChurch, presented by an interdenominational association of Christian groups in the KitchenerWaterloo area. This once-a-semester event is sponsored by members of the UW Navigators, Waterloo Christian Fellowship, Huron Campus Ministry, Chinese Christian Fellowship, and Korean Christian Fellowship. The setting was entirely secular: scattered chairs at the Bombshelter, with U2 and REM blasting through the speakers. That’s what the UnChurch stands for - presenting Christianity in a setting more accessible to the average university student than stained glass and rows of hard wooden pews. The Speaker for the evening was Ross Rains, a Masters Zoology graduate from the University of Guelph and national direcbr of the Navigators. Rains’ stated goal was to challenge those present with questions about the nature-of truth. His presentation altema&dphilosophy, politics, and social commen-
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comfort, akin to having a condition of terminal disease, is not very strong. Speaking for Canadians, we live in a society that isn’t controlled by the church. We have television, radio, the Internet, public education, and many other aspects of our lives that serve to provide us with other sources of comfort and pleasure. Yet, not everybody has given up religion as wholeheartedly as you have. I think this is because people really do find comfort in religion. People have, from the beginning of time, wanted to be a part of something - a member. Organized religion, like any club, is usually open to all who will learn and all who will pay the fee. Mr. Russell writes that religion as a comforting device is what ought to be, not what is. What is looking at the mirror and convincing yourself that you really have lost weight? What is telling yourself that you really have what it takes to succeed in life, make a million, and die happy? It’s what ought to be, not what is, and people do it every day. Are they fools for looking for comfort in what they may find to be a hard world? The last point is also an interesting one. 1 hope Mr. Russell expands on it in the future. The point was: YOU DON’T NEED GOD FOR AN ETHICAL SYSTEM [Caps lock are Mr. Russell’s, not mine]. “It is only where Heaven is the ideal that you need a God (who works the door) to tell you what is good and what is bad.” I do not claim to be a scholar of history, but I can only think of two examples of ethical systems that didn’t include God. Mr. Russell cited Communism, where the state is the highest ideal. However, Communism failed and failed miserably. Not only did Communist leaders corrupt the very spirit of what they stood for, the pople felt no love towards the state and therefore, their “ideal” was all but worthless to them. The people of Communist nations were comforted neither by God nor by State, and so apathy towards the State reigned except among the few. The other example I can think of is Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany replaced God with the Fuhrer, and they had their own ethical system, albeit skewered from our perspective. Why was Hitler so very popular? Why was the Nazi state supported so fervently? A combination of fear from the doubters but more importantly, in my opinion, support from those that really, re-
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Lederer
John
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To the Editor, Last Friday, I was waiting for my class to start and a friend beside me was reading James Russell’s article from the Imprint, Who is John Gait? He tossed it to me when he was done and I read it as well. It made for some interesting reading. I was actually hoping I would be able to finish it before my class started, The article made a very passionate and sweeping criticism of religion. Actually, Russell called it a crock of shit. In seven short paragraphs he attacked the existence of God, the doctrine of Hell, the church, theistic ethics and the relationship between church and state. It was the accelerated version of Bertrand Russell’ s “Why I am not a Christian.” Actually as I read the article I could strongly identify with
13 many of the frustrations that he expressed. I grew up in the Evangelical church and recently did a Bachelor of Theology at a conservative Bible College. This puts me in a social category that is certainly not enviable. I am well aware of the bitterness that many people have for the evangelical church and conservative religion. However, I can identify with their frustrations and anger because I have felt it too. There is a social alienation that takes place in the life of a conservative Christian. Yet, this often comes because they desire it to be this way. Many take delight in their separation because they feel special. They feel that they are God’s chosen ones and so perceive themselves in stark contrast to the “secular” world. Those who do not point their fmger at the rest of the world certainly imply it by the way that they live and talk with others. It is natural to judge when you feel that your little world is the right way and that those who do not willingly
or at least benevolently join you are against you. Sadly, this is how we know conservaltive religion in North America. This is the perception that we receive from the media, and often from our own experience. A very different kind of alienation takes place in the lives of those Christians who can step outside their “little world” and see it from afar. It is an alienation that takes place from within. I have experienced the frustration and bitterness of James Russell. I am angry at the manipulation that often takes place in Christianity. It angers me when harsh judgments arc brought down on those with different opinions and different approaches to life. I am frustrated with the literal and dogmatic mind of conservative religion that can be so abusive in its approach. Furthermore, the us/them mentaIity that runs through fundamentalism is hurtful and certainly not welcoming. Continued
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As an evangelical, I am deeply sorry for all of this. Indeed, this kind of religious expression is worthy of its criticism. Countless times l have tried to make sense of all this in my journey as a Christian. Sometimes I laugh at our ridiculous behaviour. Other times I boil over. Most times, though, 1 am left in utter disbelief. In response to Russell’s article l am convinced that there is something more to Christianity than what it often appears to be. Russell attacked the church for many reasons, but ail were related to the abusive approaches of Christians in their attempt to make Christianity a living reality. His criticism is just, yet it assumes that the manner of the Christian church is an accurate depiction of this living reality. On the contrary, what has escaped many Christians is the important concept that the living reality is not dependent upon them. The Christian is a participant, not a creator. The Christian is a confessor, not a legislator. The Christian approach must begin and end in humility, for the basis of the living reality to which it confesses orginates in the words of Christ alone: “I am the way the truth and the life.” The role of the church as a societal judge is a fabrication that the Church must leave behind. Influence is one thing; divine judgment is quite another. I think we can ali agree that there is a very wayward aspect to mankind. However, nobody needs this reality jammed down their throats on a continua1 basis. I am very tired of this. We stand together in our waywardness, inside and outside the church. In its zeal to “convert” people ta a living faith, the Church gives the impression that it owns and wields the remedy for such an event. Truly, all that it can do is testify to B reality that goes far beyond itself into a world that has no institutional structure at all. Perhaps the current criticism of the church is appropriate. Maybe it needs a long, hard look at its approach to the world. Whatever
the case, I hope that others will be led to find a way through. This is the journey that I am travelling. I can’t say that I have always found success. Sometimes I feel like giving up. Other times I am able to arrive at some half-witted understanding of what I participate. And then there are those times when I feel like I am home, those moments when I feel like a child again, a time when everything fades in significance and I am reminded of my beginnings and endings in Christ alone. You see, I am a recovering Fundamentalist. True to my evangelical spirit, I hope that you will look for a way through too. -Sean
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To the Editor, My little spine is tingling in anticipation as I write this letter. I welcome the opportunity to tell James Russell something he does not already know. According to Paul Tillich, faith is defined asultimate cortc~m. This means, James, that exactly what you argue against in the Christian religion is a fundamental part of your identity - it doesn’t matter if your ultimate concern is yourself, or Capitalism, or British music, or whatever. If it ultimately concerns you, then you have faith in it. You have faith that it exists and that it somehow affects you, and you work toward some end in regard to your ultimate concern. Is it so hard to believe that some people believe in God, and have faith that there is life after death? They do not question your reasons for being a conservative capitalist .. . A second point of clariftcation: you appear to be writing about an evangelical strain of Christianity (I can’t speak for the Islamic population), found only in places like . .. hmm... television and those tracts that are handed to you on the street. Not much of an education to
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have before you are equipped to comment on the whole multifacted affair, is it? By commenting on Christianity as you have here, you ignore feminist theologies, gay and lesbian Christian spiritualities, liberation theologies, and many more liberal thinking entities. I don’t think that’s fair. This part made me laugh: “YOU DO NOT NEED GOD FOR AN ETHICAL SYSTEM,” written just before you turn to the straw dogs of communism and capitalism. Are these not Gods themselves? I believe that is the analogy you draw here. Just as Christianity has not always been perfect in history, neither have your examples of ethical systems. I also think your suggestion that God was invented to explain natural disasters is nothing short of ludicrous. Despite many other explanations for these phenomena, the idea of God persists. It seems notable that almost all societies have some form of deity, or deities, and not all of them have anything to do with weather. One final point - Titlich mentions that doubt is an important part of faith. We cannot believe in God, but at the same time, God will not leave us alone. The vehemence of your argument leads me to believe you are a closet Christian. Come out, James, and be taken for what you are. You will no doubt be happier... -Heather
Cakier
Regarding Jim Rose To the Editor, I once naively believed that when I came to university I would find other intelligent, evolved people but evidently I was wrong. I’m referring to a recent article in the Imprint concerning the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, which I chose not to attend. The spectacle was clearly nothing more than choreographed exploitation which the writer, Gloade, only glamorized. Having admitted that I did not see the show, I still believe that I am entitled to an opinion, as I am well aware of their notorious displays of “skill and selfmutilation .” (Oxymoron anyone? Is violence a skill? Did Dahmer display skill? Innovative style?) In using such legitimizing terms as “tradition” and “genre,” Gloade attempts to coax us into believing that hanging things from our eye sockets and having darts thrown at our backs is merely an unappreciated art form which is now surfacing in the mainstream because of the “major movement” which is grunge. While such behaviour is obviously distasteful, what is truly revolting is the popularity behind the show. It is pathetic that K-W residents would pay money to watch someone lift objects with his penis, but the turnout to the community AIDS waIk is negligible. Gloade maintains that this is “the writhing underbelly of show-business in the nineties” - GeraIdo’s guests turned up a notch I guess. All of which demonstrates that we are a society that eroticizes pain. Why did Fed Hall fill up? Because it’s titillating to watch people humiliate themselves publicly. Because they aren’t
IMPRINT, Friday, November 3, 1995 “born like you or I.” Because somehow their degradation is O.K. to “cheer wildly at the grotesqueness*’ of. Would it be different if it were women? Every man on that stage was whoring his body to you “for the price of a movie.” I hope it was “memorable .” Keep in mind that self-mutilation is a common if disturbing after-effect of abuse. Victims feel they deserve it. The physical pain displaces the emotional. Men especially, since they can’t claim victimhood in our society, turn the ensuing rage on themselves and others. (Ricky M/27/94 - How could you miss that one? It had a catfight and everything!) Jim Rose “jumps right into your senses” all right, but which ones? The ones that persuade us to scream for blood at a hockey game? The ones that course while torturing small animals like frogs? Is it the wild infectious rage of gang rape? Is it ancient Roman bloodsports? Is it Lord of the FIies? Is this a distortion? Where do you draw the line? At the adrenal rush of getting off at another person’s self-effacement? Supply and demand, folks. Money talks to crippled egos and you paid them to parade their pain. Whether they chose it or not is irrelevant. How many of them were well-adjusted? Challenge me if you disagree. Of course, if you orgasm over self-torture you’ll probably never get this letter. Gloade, at least, is articulate if twisted, so let’s keep the dialogue going. I’m done gyrating now. The stage is set. What will your dance be? -Melissa
MacDonald
Triangle school To the Editor, I am writing in response to a letter I saw in your local paper regarding the “specialty programs” for Black students and Queer students offered by the Toronto Board of Education. I am not only a dyke, but a student of the Triangle Program and am responding to the hate literature from that perspective. These programs are not about hate, but they are necessary because of the hate created by “straight” white boys like yourself, Mr. J. Kinniburgh. If “white” was used as a derogatory word, would that be so bad, after all the crimes the white race has committed? “White culture” is what we (unfortunately) live in. We live in a system that is based on patriarchal white supremacy; which has bred homophobia. So, yes, it is “inherently damaging to poor minorities, women, and homosexuals.” It is not segregation. Regular schools are still full of Black students and Queer students. The segregation label is a cop-out used by bigots as a self-serving, privileged liberal way of objecting to these programs. There is not necessarily more attention per student. In fact, for about half the time there are about four or five classes going on, and one teacher. Students are taught and expected to take the initiative for their own education - an admirable quality. Yes, the education
system is supposed to be for everybody, but, in reality, it is meeting the needs of straight, white males. I wish “anti-white, anti-male crap” was “the accepted norm in our society.” It should be, considering the crimes committed by the male gender and the white race, but alas it is not. Yes, in answer to your question, our schools are racist, sexist, and homophobic. And in response to: “People have to learn how to deal with the society they live in.” No one has the responsibility to learn how to deal with bigotry directed at them, but the ones who are responsible for bigotry will suffer the consequences. (Your time is coming, Mr. Kinniburgh.) I cannot speak for the Blackfocused program, but the Triangle Program does allow straight people to enroll. It is for “anyone who would benefit from a gay-positive environment.” I have just one final question for the bigoted Mr. J. Kinniburgh. Do you know you’re queer? Because I know some boys I could fix you up with. Up yours, a cunt-licking bitch,
Separatist treason To the Editor, We are writing this letter in regards to the recent Quebec referendum. Prior to Monday, the sepaiation issue was becoming redundant. Now after the results this redundancy has escalated to pure aggravation. A particular YES side (LOSING) member of the Quebec parliament talked of how Quebec was on their way. Do they not realize what a NO vote implies? Or better yet, do they not realize what a YES vote would entail? As Prime Minister, I (M. Jaims) would inform Quebec of what a separate country would mean. A) Their share of debt would be subject to our interest rates. B) Canadian currency is only for Canadians. C) See if a Quebec passport takes you as far as a Canadian. D) International student fees at all Canadian universities. E) Non-Canadian citizens cannot work for the Canadian government. (Approximately 50% of government jobs in Ottawa are filled by the Quebecois.) F) Immediate tariffs for all their exports to Canada. G) As non-Canadians inhabiting Canadian-Aboriginal land, this portion of “their” province country would become Aboriginal property. (Leaving them the region from Hull to Montreal.) Quebec will not stop with this referendum; their self-centredness will lead them into further separatist talk. One reporter was arrogant enough to believe that they will be able to influence the Quebec Anglophone vote over the next few years. Hypothetically, if I were an English-speaking Canadian (residing in Quebec), w’hy on earth would I want to live in a country that doesn’t allow me to express myself in my native tongue? (Remember that pro-Canadian bill they thought Contiinued
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would be enough to make them a distinct society? Obviously that wasn’t enough.) When an individual tries to destroy their own country, thoughts of treason come to mind. With the NO vote, as Canadian citizens we call for the Canadian government to bring Bouchard and Parizeau up on charges of treason against Canada.
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For the past semester, I have followed the articles and reports found in Imprint. Although I find most of the material in Imprint to be respectable, I must say that I am deeply offended by the cartoon ‘The Parking Lot is Full” found in your October 27 issue. The cartoon portrays a picture of Jesus drinking alcohol. While Jesus is drinking, he is urinating down on earth from Heaven. Immediately below that picture, there is a picture of a little girl informing her Mom that “God is crying.” Call it whatever you wish, black humour, etc., I call it plain disrespect. We have four affiliated colleges here in Waterloo which believe in the very thing you ridiculed. As a Christian, I find the cartoon disrespectful, offensive, and blatantly disgusting. Imprint is supposed to be the STUDENTS’ newspaper. By ridiculing Jesus in your newspaper you reject the opinions of thousands of Christians who frequent this University.
This letter is in response to David Lynch’s coIumn The Ranton Oct. 27 regarding the lack of information on the “information superhighway.” I agree that the information on the Internet is mostly valueless. However, I don’t believe that the most valuable commodity on the ‘net should be mere facts. The importance of the ‘net is access to ideas, not information. It is a huge, uncensored forum for discussion (uncensored for the time being, at least...). There is nothing to rival this in the media. Newspapers and magazines have a restriction on space, television has time constraints, and both must concern themselves with pleasing sponsors. CNN is better at delivering fact-based news, but cannot hope to offer the sheer volume of opinions and discussions that the Internet can. it could add a whole new dimension to modern democracy. Just think: nation-wide forums on politics, voting by computer - not just for elect-
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MO’ CASA To the Editor, In regards to the CASA alternate funding proposal, we wish to make an open and public thank you to the University of Waterloo Student Council, the Federation executives, the Federation Senior Administrators and theImprint. We first found out about the CASA debate at 11:30 p.m. the night before Council was to vote on the CASA proposal. We felt shocked, angry and betrayed that such a debate could take place of which we had never heard. Having such a short timeline we immediately launched a grass-roots (more like prairie fire) campaign against the tax. We helped orchestrate a telephone and email campaign to let our executives and Student Council know how outraged we were. Admittedly, some of the correspondence generated was perhaps more angry than rational. Special kudos therefore go to Jane Pak and Alexander Le Roy who bore the brunt of this backlash. They attempted to make the best of a bad situation. Not everything they did was perfect, but in all fairness to them, who do they go to for guidance? By that question we mean that when we are on work term and are given a big project we know that we can rely on our manager or the other professional staff to help guide us through. Jane and Alexander have no such formal safety net. When we called Jane and Alexander to critique (read critically critique) their proposals, processes and posters they were able to not take our criticisms personally, and to actually act on our suggestions. Since none of us are perfect, we must listen to the criticisms of others in order to achieve a better end project. It takes a big person to do this and both Jane and Alexander should be commended.
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We also wish to thank the Imprint and especially David Drewe for the coverage of the CASA debate. While we do not always agree with his version of reality, he got the message out and he got campus (and offcampus) talking. Finally, we wish to commend the process as a whole. We went from students offcampus and out-of-the-loop to active and equal participants in the debate. We not only got the chance to criticize the: CASA proposal but we got the chance to submit a different (and we believe superior) p:roposal. For two students who did not even know who their student council reps are to be allowed to get our message heard speaks highly of the whole process. We feel empowered. This process, in our opinion, is the perfect example of how a democracy should be. Student Council members, Fed Executives, Fed Senior Administrators and the Imprint are not perfect, but they are good people doing the best that they can and in the end that’s all we can ask. And we thank you. -Pd
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After Monday night’s nailbiter, the No side came out ahead by an incredibly slim margin, keeping Canada intact, for now. The Sovereigntists claim this narrow margin means that Quebeckers haveoverwhelmingly shown that they are not happy, and hope to have another referendum in the near future, where, this time, they’ll win. Personally, I’m not convinced that all of the Quebeckers who voted for separation are really so upset with Canada. I think that many of them were misinformed about what separation really means (despite the intense and unceasing efforts of Parizeau and Bouchard to the contrary... and later monkeys might fly out of my butt) and that if more of them had truly understood the consequences, the results would have been a lot closer to the 1980 results (where No won with60% of the votes). Voter interest was at an incredibly high level, and approximately 92% turned out to vote. This indicates that people were very concerned. How, then, did people so concemed be so unaware of what to become a sovereign state really means? Only through deliberate evasiveness (or deliberate misinformation) on the part of the Separatists, and the compliance of the French-language media in Quebec, could this be possible. On Monday, the Globe and Mail printed the results of a Groupe L4ger and Uger poll that indicated, amongst other things, that of those Queb,eckers planning to vote Yes, more than 80% expected to keep the Canadian
dollar, more than 55% expected to keep their Canadian passports, and more than 25% expetted to continue to send MPs to Ottawa. I will concede that if Quebec had separated, keeping the Canadian dollar is not completely improbable, at least for a while. Setting up a currency must be a complicated
business. Many of the former Soviet republics still use the Ruble. I will concede that due to the ease of gaining dual citizenship in Canada, many Quebeckers would have kept their Canadian passports, though they would have to have a Quebec passport also. However, I will not admit for a second that an independent Quebec would send MPs to Ottawa. The idea is ludicrous. Compare it to the idea of Canada sending Senators and Congressmen to Washington D.C. So, the question needs to be asked, how would the referendum have been different if the 25% who thought that this’ would happen had been aware that this was out of the question? Undoubtedly some of them would have still voted for separation, but I don’t think that that would generally have been the case. The fact that they thought this basic connection to Canada would remain intact makes it seem more probable that these people did would not want a separation. So, I did a little number-crunching. Taking my figures from the Globe and Mail on Oct. 3 1, I calculated the results if the 25% had not voted at all, and if they had voted for the No side instead. The results? If the confused 25% had stayed home, looking up “Sovereignty” in their dictionaries, the final count would have been No = 57.7%, Yes = 42.3%. And if these people had figured it out and decided that they wanted to continue to send MPs to Ottawa, the No side would have received 62.9% of the vote, aad the poor Yes side woufd have received a piddly 37.1%. 1 am all for democracy, and if Quebeckers vote to separate, that is their right. However, the vote must be informed, and I think that if this one had been, it would not even have been close.
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by Peter Brown special to Imprint he Western Mustangs have all the history on their side. The Waterloo Warriors’ first playoff opponent is one of the most storied sides in modern CIAU history. And the ‘Stangs have completely dominated the series between the two teams. Since the Ontario Universities Athletic Association took its present form in 197 1, the Warriors have never won a playoff game, and have never - ever - beaten Western. With all the weight of history on their broad shoulders, the Waterloo Warriors are just going to have to make some history of their own. If ever there were a team to do it, this is the one. And if there ever were a mortal version of the Mustangs, just waiting for a stone to be thrown straight and true to bring them to their knees, it’s this Mustang team. In week one of the season, the Warriors - playing without a preseason contest to sharpen technique - registered their worst performance of the year, and still lost by just a touchdown to UWO. Since then, the Warriors have played with frustrating inconsistency with appropriate results. Domination in wins over the Toronto Varsity Blues (who come to Waterloo tomorrow to play the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in the other OUAA semi-final), the McMaster Marauders, and the Guelph Gryphons.
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aterloo’s cross-country running sensation Jason Gregoire capped a brilliant Ontario varsity season by capturing the OUAA title on home turf last Saturday. He’ll now attempt to do likewise on November 1 lth at the CIAU Nationals in London. Over one hundred entrants started the 4-lap 1Ok.m cross-country course at Columbia Lake Saturday afternoon into a strong headwind and steady drizzle. As expected, the wind and mud proved to be strong obstacles that slowed times, but none of it stopped “the Jaguar.” Into the first lap, Gregoire worked hard against his chief rival Rob Tyndal of UWO. Gregoire had been consistently beaten by Tyndal last year, but in their lone race earlier this season the Jaguar prevailed. Gregoire repeated the trick. After the first lap the pair had slipped the rest of the pack and began a duel of tact. Running side by side through the 2nd lap, Tyndal surged past Gregoire in an effort to
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Mike Malott gets down and dirty as the Warriors to post season play. Malott had 193 yards in Guelph. There is no doubt that this team has the talent. Just ask OUAA coaches. This season’ s all-stars, selected by coaches across the conference and announced on Wednesday (see story on page 20), feature no less than nine wearers of the black and gold - and that’s on the first team alone. The Warriors have won the popularity contest. Can they win the Big Game? Just ask Tuffy. “1 told the kids, I’m tired of saying that it’s being green, or young. It’s lack of focus and concentration,” said head coach Dave
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break him, but the Ottawa native followed tightly and then put in his own surge to move clear of the Western athlete. Tyndal failed to respond and at the midway point Gregoire had a comfortable five second lead over his rival, electing to then “hold on for dear life.” The earlier victory over Tyndal provided Gregoire a psychological edge and his fitness stayed the course. Gregoire covered the 1Okm race in a commanding time under the conditions of 31 minutes 43 seionds, 20 seconds clear of runner-up Tyndal and 50 seconds in front of 3rd place finisher Rich Tremain of Windsor. Gregoire’s OUAA title was the 2nd of his career. He’d previously won the OUAA 300Om indoor track title in 1993. In team results, Waterloo finished 7th out of the 15 competing universities. The team championship was won by the University of Windsor, with Western and Queen’s filling the other placings. Gregoire’ s immediate attention now turns to the CIAU crosscountry championships held in London on November 1 lth. He ex-
Knight, winner of a Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Unioncarreer-record 1137games (see story on page 21). “This team has trouble concentrating for long periods of time .” A Saturday afternoon in November can be an eternity. But if the Warriors can line up all those sports cliches and knock ‘em down - perform, execute, put the ball in the endzone - then this team can go far in the playoffs. “We knew what we had to do to get to the playoffs,” said Jarrett Smith after last Saturday’s postseason clinching 37-19 win over the Gryphons. “We couldn’t worry about what would happen with Western and York, or other games. We just had to play hard and execute and that’s what we did.” Fullback Mike Malott joined Smith in the three-figure club with 193 yards in his final regular season game as the Warriors rolled up over 400 yards rushing. UW sprinte:d out to a 37-3 lead before surrendering 16 fourth-quarter points. Combined with losses by York and Toronto, this win vaulted Waterloo into the playoffs with a thirdplace finish. Western has homefield advantage for a reason, of course. They did execute. They do have a 1,oOOyard rusher, and enjoy a tradition of excellence. But traditions have a life, a beginning and an end. Tomorrow., Waterloo can kill one, and give birth to another.
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pects that Tyndal, running on his home turf, will once again pose a major threat, but considers the biggest danger to be UBC’s Jeff Schiebler, an athlete who’s not only one of the best distance runners at the varsity level but moreover one of the best runners in Canada period. The strategy Gregoire employs is generally dictated by the race itself. He thinks that in the Nationals, Schiebler might elect to break the field early with a fast pace and a reputation that will bury the opposition, but Gregoire will stay with him. In fact, Gregoire would ideally like to make his own move early to drop the field and keep everybody else at a distan& “I tend to respect other people’s kicks,” Gregoire laughs by way of explanation. “My preference is to wear everybody else down.” Tndeed, that’s so far been the Jaguar’ s pattern, leading every race he’s been in this season at the halfway junctures and tending to win with comfortable ease. The Nationals will be Gregoire’s last-ever cross-country race in the Waterloo uniform and
he expects to give it his all. “I’m in the best shape of my life,” he says. “The OUAA final was an extremely personal race for me. Other people had been saying that I was an underachiever in the big races, that I wasn’t living up to my potential, that I was a choker, so I was really proud to win the title and put all of that behind me. The CIAU championship is much less personal. I want to win more for my coach (John Swarbick), my friends, and for the university .” Those who’ve grown fond of Gregoire’s athletic prowess in the Waterloo colours needn’t despair that his career here is over. He’s foregoing a crack at the CrossCountry Canadian Championships in late November and the World Championships in March in order to finish his varsity career running track. “I’d like to prepare strictly for university athletics since this is my last year and I don’t want any interference. Besidles, I think I’ll be much more prepared for things like the World Championships in a year or so, so for the time being I’ll just concentrate running for Waterloo.”
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a team! aged to create at least 15 penalty comer situations, all of which were thwarted by the Athena’s stellar defense. With less than a minute left to play, Waterloo’s bench consisting of coaches, Sharon Creelman, Jen Anderson and Linda Mowatt. The trainers DaliaThomas and Shivaun Wilson and players Katherine Gawel, Tanya Boge, Carla Meunsh, and Laurie Good took to their feet as they knew victory was theirs. When at last the horn sounded, the bench and players ran to their goal line where they jumped on and tackled Yolanda and Sara for their spectacular defensive playing. Sara was named player of the game for her outstandling efforts. The goals have been achieved. The Athenas are heading to the CIAU championships this weekend in Toronto at Lamport Stadium where they are in a pool with UBC and UNB, and they are doing so as the OWIAA champions. This is the first Waterloo victory for the tieId hockey team and the first new banner for our gym since the mid-80s. It is also the first time in OWIAA history that a team other than York or U of T has won the pennant. The team would like to thank all the fans who came out to support the team. Congratulations -and good luck this weekend, ladies.
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his past weekend, the Waterloo Athena’s travelled to Toronto for the 1995 OWIAA Championship with one goal in mind - to qualify for next weekends CIAU finals. And they came out with much, much more! The weekend started out on a rough note as the bus was over an hour late to pick up the team. After arriving at the hotel, the women had a quick change, then headed out to the University of Toronto’s Hart House Hall, where a ghoulish reception and dinner were laid out for all the teams that qualified. The dinner was superb with the evening ending with the announcement of the 1995 All Star Teams. Waterloo’ s goalie Y olanda Lewezuk was named a goalie for the all-star team while rookies Amy Adair, Michelle Lo and veteran Sara Creighton were selected for the first All-Star Team. The Athena’s coach Sharon Creelman, a former Olympic national team player, was named coach of the year for obvious reasons. Competition began the next morning at noon in a semi-final game against the York University Yeowomen. In regular season play the Athenas were 1-l-O against York. This game was a show down with a very important outcome. The winner would automatically qualify for the CIAU Championship in addition to advancing to Sunday OUiAA finals. The losing team would sit and wait to see who got the wild card draw. The Athenas took the field with attitude and played a hard first half holding the score at O-O, partly due to Amy Adair’s outstanding defensive manoeuvers which effectively shut down York’s lead scorer. This lead to Amy being named “Player of the Game.” In the second half, Waterloo took the lead with a long comer pass across the front of the York net which was tipped in by Rachel Brohman. The team brought the victory home shortly after when Bemice Willemse ran at least 40 yards up the field past 3 defensive players and passed to Caroline Stark who slammed the ball home. With the win Waterloo’s goal had been
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achieved, they were heading to the ClAU championships. So coach of the Year- Sharon Creelman-put another goal in front of the team,to bring home the banner. This was a challenge the team was glad to take upon themselves. The day of reckoning dawned bright and cold, but this didn’t faze the Athena field hockey team. Most were decked out in new warm clothes from Mountain Equipment Co-op. After a brief team meeting in the hotel, the team again travelled to Lamport Stadium where they were to play the gold medal game against the undefeated U of
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Toronto Varsity Blues. The Athenas began the game on a strong foot. The defensive team led by Sarah “The Wall” Creighton and Yolanda “No Goals” Lewezuk, consisted of Samara Berger, Amy Adair, and Shannon Morris were very effective in shutting down the Toronto forwards. The mid-field with All- Star Michelle Lo at centre and Rachel Brohman, and Bemice Willemse at either side controlled the field positions with the same key wide passes and the forwards kept the U of T defense busy with short cuts by Caroline Stark, impressive stick
handling by Dawn Culverson, and great tackling by Grace Douglas. Midway through the first half, Caroline Stark scored on a pass from Samara Berger and the Athenas kept their defense strong and eventually scored again on a penalty comer which was passed out by Amy Adair, stopped by Rachel Brohman, passed from Michelle Lo to Bemice Willemse, who slammed the ball into the net. The score was now 2-0, but the game was far from over. The exci tement climaxed in the final 3 minutes when the desparate U of Toronto Varsity Blues man-
Athena ruggers finish inaugural se:ason by Nicole Pontefract Imprint staff
seeing playing time, this game gave an opportunity for the rookies to gain valuable rugby experience. One game and many practices later, the Athenas travelled to St. Catharines and overturned the Brock Badgers with a 34-O victory. Single tries were scored by Shannon Pennington, Sarah Bazuk and Colleen Roberge. Jill Thomson scored two tries and kicked for two converts. The Athena squad were able to play their game by keeping the ball in motion. The forwards won the rucks, and the backs were used every play in the book to run over the Brock’s defense. After the game, Coach Eric Ciezar reported, “It was the most technically, well executed women’s game I’ve seen
he Athena rugby squad were on a mission in their inaugural exhibition season to prove themselves worthy of gaining varsity status. Tallying up two wins and two losses for the season, the team showed that they could be a dominating factor in the OWIAA league. The first game of the season saw the Athenas take on the strong Guelph Gryphons with a 37-5 loss for Waterloo. Myra Lemelin battled her way through the Guelph’s defence to score one of the only two tries that the Gryphons had given up this season. With the entire team
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in the last two years.” The third game of the season saw the Athenas give up a disappointing 22-5 loss to York University. The lone try for Waterloo was scored by Jill Thomson in the first quarter when the Athenas showed their dominance of tne game. In the last quarter, York was able to break through the defence by taking advantage of the many penalties called against Waterloo. These penalties slowed down Waterloo’s ball moving game and turned the victory over to York. Finishing the season, the Athenas hosted Windsor who were also in their first exhibition season. Despite the cold, wet, windy, and muddy conditions, the Athenas used
their strength and will to battle the elements and win a 25-O victory. Try scorers for Waterloo were Jill Thomson, Laura Vipond, Tina “Tiny” Moore and Sarah Bazuk for two. With the loss of many front row players over the season, the forwards did an amazing job keeping the pack together with impressive rucking and hard hitting. Coaches Eric Ciezar and Bill Lemon and the players would like to thank the following guys who 1helped out the team over the season: Dale Finlay, Rob Lyn, Pete Alexander and Jerard Lynch. The team is proud of their inaugural season and feel that the OWIAA better be prepared for the arrival of the Athena rugby machine.
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n a hint of things to come this weekend, the Warriors domiL ated the OUAA All-Star selections this season. It was the second consecutive year that Waterloo had eleven athletes honoured. This year, nine of the eleven were firstteam selections, the most of any team in the division. Led by Captains Tony Garland and John Shoniker, Waterloo’s defense had five first team OUAA All-Stars. Tony collects the honour for the second year in a row as he led all Warriors in interceptions with three. John has been the rock of the defensive line for Waterloo the past five seasons. John is one of the best defensive linemen in the country and is expected to be named an AllCanadian this year. Shawn Dyson’s aggressive and emotional style of play was the decisive factor in many games this seasonand, as a result, he was named a first-team OUAA All-Star at his free safety position. Not only was Shawn a key member of the defensive attack, he returned kicks for Waterloo and was a key member of
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their special teams unit. Paired with the CIAU’s 1994 Defensive Player of the Year Cory Delaney for most of his career, Kirk Witter finally got a chance to show what a dominate player he can be in 1995. Kirk went one-onone with the OUAA’ s top receivers in the league this year, proving what an outstanding coverage man he is. In his last season with the Warriors, Kirk has brought poise and maturity to this young team. Second year linebacker Jason Van Gee1 was the fifth defensive Warrior to earn OUAA All-Star status this season. Jason was Waterloo’s Rookie of the Year in 1994 and a key member of the Warriors attack. On defense, he calls in the signals and on offense, he is the short yardage fullback. Waterloo’s big offensive linemen Justin Shoniker and Martin Barta led the offense as first team selections. Both have been incredible leaders for the very young line. In his fifth and final year with the Warriors, Justin is among the top linemen in the country. Justin is a key reason why Waterloo has had such a dominating ground attack. With his great blocking, the backs have been able
to take advantage of the big holes. Barta’s encouraging words of wisdom on the sidelines have inspired the Warriors throughout the season. He is another reason for Waterloo’s great attack as he makes the holes each week. Mike Malott was the Warriors other first-team selection. In last season, Mike put up some good numbers finishing the season ranked fifth in the country rushing for 822 yards on 118 carries. Waterloo’s second-team selections could have easily been first tamers. Adrian Thorne broke Waterloo’s A&Time record for receiving yardage this season and only needs two catches this weekend to become Waterloo’s leader in receptions. For his efforts on and off the field, Adrian was named an OUAA All-Star. mter an incredible season in 1995, Jarrett Smith earned OUAA All-Star honours for the first time in his career. Jarrett put up amazing numbers in this his first full season as a starter, He finishes the regular season ranked third in the country with 889 yards on 15 1 yards. Jarrett is a dominating tailback with an incredible future ahead of him. He will dominate next season.
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hat a wild week in sports! I keep thinking I’m walcing up from a dream but no, it’s really true. The Ottawa Senators were actually in first place. Now, wait, maybe it was only for a small amount of time, like three days, but the Sens were there. The laughingstock of the National League, the team that can’t sign their best player, the players who must pray to the ghosts of the Silver Seven to help them at least be competitive, the team whose road record allows other teams to schedule “Guaranteed Win Nights” as promotions, are in second place. Right behind Pittsburgh. Record: five wins, five losses. And the Sens have won three on the road... Well, the World Series is over and the only question I have is “Who’s the bigger asshole, Albert Belle or Dave Justice?’ Oh, that and for future reference, if the Braves again make the Series, I would submit a plea to all television cameramen to stop those annoying close-up shots of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. Jane’s a great actor, always looking tense in the seventh, worried in the eighth, hopeful in the ninth, and finally, jubilation in light of a Braves victory. Fans don’t need to know what Jane’s feeling to enjoy the game. In fact, no one gives a shit what Jane’s feeling... Well, add another notch to Don Cherry’s belt. Grapes predicted on Coach’s Comer Saturday night that the referendum would end in a “NO” vote, and of course, it did. I wonder if anyone is keeping a running total of his track record. Grapes has gotta be near 95%... Once again, CHCH presents the inferior game this weekend on the tube in the OUAA football playoffs. They’re showing the Laurier-Varsity Blues game rather than Western-Waterloo. The ‘Stangs and
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Warriors will probably be within a touchdown of each other while the Hawks should walk: on the Blues... Speaking of the Warriors, kudos go to Mike Malott, Jarrett Smith, and the offensive line. Guelph KNEW the Warriors were going to run the ball down their throats, and still, Waterloo managed to gain 400 yards on the ground... DaveMarkin of the Warrior tennis team advanced to the finals of the Individual Championships at York last weekend. After shutting out Tony Roth of Queen’s (i-0, Markin dropped the next two 6-3,6-2 and earned himself a silver medal... The Breeder’s Cup is coming to Woodbine in 1996 and tickets are extremely limited, never mind costing a pretty penny. However, it’d be worth it if Cigar (this year’s champ) came back for another run for the title... Now that the Detroit Red Wings have traded Ray Sheppard for Igor Larionov, you can cancel out a return trip to Stanley’s domain forthe Motor City Boys. I mean, Shep may have been a lousy skater, but for crying out loud, he was a fifty goal scorer. Apparently, the Reid Wings aren’t satisfied with winning. No, now they have to domina.te the highlight reels... Staying in Motown, the Tigers announced they will have a brand-new, $235 million ballpark ready for the 1998 season. Thank God. Now, Tiger fans will be treated to a change of pace, *watching shitty pitching in anew environment rather than the historic confines of Tiger Stadium... The Ra;ptors open tonight against the Nets, an actual possible win for the first year dinosaurs. The Barenaked Ladies are singing the nationaLl anthem. The Raps will be fortunate to win twenty-five this year... Finally, how come Cito didn’t back up his fired coaches? Is he trying to save his own job? Who knows? All you have to know is the Informer will be there, watching in the shadows.
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arrior football Head Coach Dave “Tuffy” Knight accomplished something most coaches can only dream of by tying the ClAU’s AllTime Record for career wins last weekend. From the way the respected West-Virginian downplays the whole issue though, you’d think he’d just tied his shoes and not an All-Time record. “it’s pleasant. 1 think this team has played extremely well this year in order for us to tie the record,” said Knight Sunday. Waterloo’s 37- 19 victory over the Guelph Gryphons moved Knight into a tie with former Bishop Gaiters Coach Bruce Coulter with 137 wins, 71 loses and 6 ties. A victory in London tomorrow would not only keep the Warriors Vanier Cup dreams alive, it would separate Knight from all the other coaches as the country’s All-Time winningest coach. And although he’s very honoured that he has the chance to become the ClAU’s top coach, Knight has much bigger plans on his mind right now. He wants to prove to the rest of the league what a strong football program Waterloo has. In his illustrious coaching career, only one victory has eluded him and that’s a Vanier Cup win. It’s a goal the Tuffster feels is attainable with this team. “People used to mention Waterloo Football and laugh,” remembers Knight, who joined the Warriors in 1989. “Now, you mention Waterloo Football and it’s not a laugh. A lot of people are fearful of Warrior Football. “I said in the first press conference they had here that people were laughing and smiling about the program but that we were going to wipe the smiles off their faces. I feel we’ve done that. I think we’ve given the alumni and university community something to be proud of. “This year’s team has probably achieved as much as any team I have coached because we had some setbacks when the season
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started and now we’ve come together.” Knight joined the Warriors after a four year stint in the CFL as Director of Player Personnel with the Toronto Argonauts. Before that he was athletic director at Wilfrid Laurier University . In only a few seasons as the Warrior skipper, he turned the Warriors’ once crumbling football program into one of the country’s strongest. Knight’s name brought instant credibility to Waterloo’s program, but it was his honest, hard working approach to the game that has brought it the much deserved respect. “The program was bad when I came here but the kids were good, hard working kids who were dedicated. I enjoy the coaching part and they responded well and put the program on the map. “We’re a physical football team that likes to get after you and knock you down and play hard. Our kids are plodders and grinders, that’s the way we play.” Knight’s hard work has paid off. The Warriors are headed to the
Ret leyball Tourney at the PAC. Twelve teams participated in the co-ed competition, and in the end, Below Me won the overall championship after winning Pool A. Sexual Choeolates were victorious in Pool B. This coming weekend (November 4-5), Campus Ret is hosting a Black Knight Squash Tournament in the PAC. Tourney action begins at 11 a.m. so come on out and cheer for a Campus Ret squash enthusiast. This is a “no racquet required” event as participants in the tourney get to use Black Knight racquets for their matches. They will also receive t-shirts, and Black Knight is providing door prizes, including sweatshirts and fanny packs. The lucky tournament winner goes home with a Black Knight racquet of his or her choice. If you missed the tourney dead-
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playoffs for the second consecutive year. No one is going to get overconfident and say that the Warriors are shoo-ins for a National Championship, but they definitely have the potential. The Warriors are incredibly talented this season and do not want the year to be over with this weekend. As for Knight, he isn’t going to let the record go to his head. He plans on keeping the same simple approach to coaching that he has always used. “I’ve never said I was a better coach than other people. I’ve never said I was smarter than anyone else. Rut I also said that no one is going to ever outwork me. You may be smarter than me, you may be bigger than me, you may be stronger than me but, you’re not going to outwork me. ‘That’s what we teach our kids. That through hard work and dedication you can have success. It doesn’t mean you’re going to go out and win the National Championship every year, but you’re going to have success.”
inally, the hockey season has arrived! Last Friday, the Waterloo Warriors opened their regular season campaign at Columbia Ice Fields against their hated rivals Western Mustangs. Not only was this match the first true test of the year, the Warriors were full aware that the London-based horsies are the gauge by which Waterloo’s success will be measured this year. Needless to say, the game was a biggie. The Warriors played the ‘Stangs to a 3-3 tie through two, but alas, couldn’t counter a strong Western third, losing 6-4. Western outshot Waterloo43-27 overah, and indicative of their third period, the Mustangs held a 14-4 shot advantage in the final twenty minutes. Joe Harris, the black and gold’s netminder, turned aside thirtyseven shots in the loss. Playing a scoreless first, the teams played a crazy wide-open end-to-end second frame where six goals were scored and thirty-one shots, sixteen by Waterloo, were fired at the hapless goaltenders. Down l-0 in the second, the John Wynne show began, with the captain scoring in succession before Western added two more of their own. Jeff Goldie, a secondyear power forward, tied things up before the second intermission. Peter Brearley rounded out the Warrior scoring in the third, making it interesting at 5-4 Mustangs, before Western’s Owen Lessard iced the game with an empty-netter, leaving the home crowd disappointed. Waterloo had to be satisfied with their effort in the speedy, hardhitting contest. The Warriors proved they are on an even scale with a hockey club many experts are picking to win the OUAA title. Hopefully, the remaining games
between WaterIoo and Western will live up to the calibre of play displayed on Friday. Because of the results of Friday night, Sunday afternoon’s date with Windsor loomed as a mustwin situation. It is already unacceptable to lose once, but dropping two straight at home to divisional rivals can be catastrophic. And halfway through the first period, with Windsor up 2-0, the Warriors looked as if they could be plummeting towards unchartered waters in the early divisional standings. However, that was before Peter Brearley, a rookie winger fresh out of the OHL, took matters into his own hands. Brearley had a fine game Friday, collecting two points, but on Sunday, he really presented himself as a wicked offensive weapon, capable of filling the void created by the graduation of the irreplaceable Jason “Swervin”’ Mervyn. Brearley scored twice to close out the first, and added the capper in the third, leading the Warriors to a 6-3 conquest. The three-goal performance was Brearley’s first hat trick of his OUAA career, a feat achieved in his second-ever career game. John Wynne continued his point-filled weekend, scoring once and adding two assists, lifting the high-scoring defenceman to six points over the two games. Rookie Sean Oliver and veteran Sheldon Gilchrist also replied for the Warriors. Joe Harris again did a hell of a job tending to the Warrior pipes. The Warriors ( l- 1) continued their homestand on Thursday against the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, who have started dismally at O-4. As of press time, no results have been posted. Look for game results in the November 10 issue of your friendly neighbourhood Imprint.
report lines, but you are interested in racquet sports, Campus Ret has ongoing Badminton and Table Tennis Clubs. Did you know that badminton improves hand-eye coordination, agility, and mental strategy? Did you know that table tennis is the world’s second most popular sport? You can enjoy both through Campus Rec. If you just want to play a racquet sport with a friend, booking squash, racquetball, or tennis courts is easy! Turn to page 30-3 1 in your Pick It Up brochure for instructions and contact numbers. WE HAVE WINNERS for Campus Ret’s ‘Seek and Ye Shall Find the Answers” Hunt. Scott Preston, Jenny Hughes, and Angela Baldwin all win CR grab bags for their efforts. Thanks to all the participants, and congratulations to the three lucky winners!
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Power and dominance is key for linebackers by Kimberly Moser Imprint staff
after week, they have been involved in the game-winning plays and game- saving tackles. When they’re not crushing opponents physically, they’re doing it mentally by halting the attack. Mark McIntyre, Ryan Kirk, Jason Van Gee1 and Kevin Pressburger are Waterloo’s outstanding starters while Bredan Aucoin, Rob Fawcett, Justin Karpowicz and Chris Bertoia are just as talented back-ups. Sophomores Mark McIntyre and Jason Van Gee1 are the leaders of this gifted bunch. McIntyre is one of the Warriors’ most intense players. He is known around the league for his very sound, technical linebacking style. He is extremely conscious of his territory and the opposition is always punished by his bruising hits when they enter his part of the field.
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hey are not Hollywood by any stretch of the imagination. They own no flashy image and no catchy nicknames yet, each week their presence is felt. Guided by power and dominance, this simple approach to the game has brought Waterloo’s linebackers much success. It is also a major factor in why the Warriors will be playing in the semi-finals tomorrow for the second consecutive year. “1 think the linehacking core and its coach prides itself on being very blue collar,” notes their skipper Paul Kilby . Situated in the heart of Waterloo’s defense, these linebackers are responsible for stopping the run and eliminating the pass. Week
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Waterloo’s linebacking core: Ryan Kirk, Kevin Pressburger, Rob Fawcett, Jason Van Gee1 and Bredan Aucoin. Seated are Chris I3ertoia, Mark McIntyre and 3ustin Karpowicz. Van Gee1 was Rookie of the Year in 1994 and in only his second season, has become the “quarterback” of the defense, calling in the signals. In a very short time, he has developed into one of the Warriors top players. A 1995 OUAA-All Star, he is quickly making a name for himself as one of the most physical players in the league. Kevin Pressburger is a natural on the field. He is one of the most talented pass rush specialists in the country, as he is incredibly hard to block. Against Western, Pressburger snagged his first interception of the season, a 26yard touchdown. Warrior fans are hoping he’ll have the same type of performance tomorrow. For his quiet demeanour, one would not expect Ryan Kirk to be one of the most feared linebackers in the OUAA. However, once on the field, Kirk’s personality changes. An extremely intelligent football player, he is a great coverage man. Brendan Aucoin saw limited action this season as he was seri-
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ously injured in the third game of the year. However, not one who likes to sit back and watch, Aucoin returned to the Warriors line-up two weeks ago. A ferocious tackler, Aucoin is incredibly intense and a key member of the Warriors special teams unit. Rob Fawcett returned to the Warriors this year after taking the 1994 season off to attend fireman’s college at Texas A&M. He is the Warriors’ long snapper on special teams and brings a great deal of poise and maturity to this squad. First-year players Justin Karpowicz and Chris Bertoia are talented linebackers with great futures ahead of them. This season, they are learning the finer points of the Warriors defense and contributing enormously on special teams. All eight linebackers understand the importance of their roles whether they are starting or backing-up a position. As a unit, they have set very high goals for themselves as they strive towards their dreams of a Vanier Cup season, “We need to cause more tumo-
vers and get some more big plays,” says McIntyre who is hoping the linebackers can repeat the “big play” performance they had against Guelph three weeks ago tomorrow in London. Against Guelph, Van Geel’s interception late in the game shut down the Gryphons attack and won the game for the Warriors. “The linelbackers are expected to hit people and knock them back,” explains Pressbuger. “We must knock them, back and get a lot of pressure on thle quarterback in order to help out our defensive bat ks .” With a victory fomorrow, the Warriors can vault head coach Dave ‘Tuffy” Knight to the top spot on the CIAU’s All-Time Career win list. It would also give them the homecoming they have always desired. “We have. plenty of motivation to win againsi. Western this weekend.” says a determined Kilby who along with the other coaches is preparing Waterloo for one of its toughest battles yet.. “We want to get coach Knight his record this weekend. Plus, if we win this game, we come home to play for the Yates Cup during homecoming and thus, we can finally have a football homecoming like the rest of Nusrth America.” For the linebackers, tomorrow’s game is doubly important. Not only are they fighting to stay alive in the playoffs, they have something to prove to the CIAU. “We want to prove that we are the best front seven in the league,” says Aucoin. “We don’t like to do a lot of stunts. We like to take teams on because we feel our front seven can matchup against anyone in the OUAA and the country.”
Jason Gregoire Warrior Cross Country Jason is a fifth year masters of Applied Health Sciences student and a veteran distance runner on UW’s cross country team. On Saturday, Jason took the Gold Medal at the OUAA Cross Country Championships held here at North Campus. He will now travel to the CIAU Championships on November 11 th at Western to try to finish off what has been a perfect season. Earlier season highlights for Jason include a first place finish in the men’s 8km race at the Cuelph
Invitational season opener, with a personal best of 24:32. Jason beat a top Canadian runner by 100 metres and his tremendous time led the Warriors to top spot overall in the meet. He continued to blow away the competition the following week, taking top honours at the Western Invitational in the men’s 10 km race with a time of 32:03. Finally, at the Waterloo Invitational, Jason took took second in the men’s race with a time of 31126 - second only to an independent runner. This win still counted in the OUAA as a first place finish. A veteran runner, Jason earned a bronze medal at the CIAU Championships last seasons and in 1994, he placed gold at the CXJAA’s Championships and was named an All-Canadian. Amy Adair Athena Field Hockey Amy is a first year Science student and rookie Athena Field I-Iockey player who played a major role in the team making history, becoming the first ever UW team to capture the OWIAA Championship. This past weekend in Toronto, Amy played outstanding, helping
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ancouver’s cub headlined an excellent evening’s worth of music Thursday night at the Volcano on a bill which also featured fellow west-coasters Pluto and San Francisco’s infamous Pansy Division. Pluto, four boys from Vancouver, were the first to hit the stage and they hit it loud. Their music is straight-ahead guitar driven rock comparable to that of many rock bands from the late eighties. Comprising numerous bass driven melodies filled with clean guitars and wonderful vocal harmony, their songs were totally impressive. Pluto weren’t lacking in the area of stage presence either, engaging the audience as they ripped through their material right up at the edge of the stage. Next up were Pansy Division, the legendary “queer core” trio from San Francisco. Right from the start they stuck their homosexuality in the crowd’s faceand neverrelented. During their set, one couldn’t help but enjoy the band’s enthusiasm. The band is everything from “gay activists” to “rock stirs” all rolled into one -the point is taken that serious issues abound, but fun and frivolty are never far away. Their music has a tight punk
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feel, rocking a lot like the Ramones. The crowd seemed a little timid at times, but that was only natural. More than anything, Pansy Division is hilarious and a nice change of pace. The evening’s headliners were cub, an all grrrl trio from Vancouver. cub was immediately intent on turning the Volcano into one big dance party. Bassist and lead-singer Lisa Marr led the punk inspired attack with some serious playing. Although their music has been described as “cute girl pop” or “cuddle core” in the past, it’s amazing how incredibly talented the band is. The sound of their music comes across as being very simple, like something you’d hear on a playground back in elementary school. It’s tailor-made to give you the warm-fuzzies and guaranteed to make any listener happy. Sadly, Robynn and Lisa G., cub’s guitarist and drummer respectively, had some technical difficulties on the evening. Robynn lost her glasses, and Lisa’s bass drum kept creeping towards the front of the stage. Nevertheless, their set came across loud and clear, and loaded with fun as they rocked through all of the hits. Included in their set was the Rarnones cover “Sensation” and a new song “Green Eym” that can be found on a new Kill Rock Stars and Lookout Records compilation called A Slice Of Lemon. All in all, a wonderful show filled with lots of dancing and loads of fun.
Glueleg w/ Race Volcano Friday October 27 by Andrew Henderson Imprhlt stm
appearances had been sold out roughly four hundred people a night. Crispin’s tour manager said that the Fed show had been the worst turn-out yet. There were approximately one hundred people, but in Fed, it looked more like forty. Apparently, poor attendance was related to problems with publicity, so Crispin’s image of Waterloo hasn’t been completely tarnished although his entourage weren’t very impressed with the accommodations that had been arranged for them, but that’s a different story. Maybe Crispin should have considered doing another stint on “Late Night with David Letterman” for a publicity boost - who knows where that could have led. I really had no idea what to expect from Crispin, but I was under the impression that he was going to include musical perform antes from his albumThe Big Prublem The St9lution, The S&.&on= Let It Be (which wasn’t even available for fans to purchase because it was sold out at their previous show in London). Unfortunately, the entire show consisted of readings from eight of his books. I suppose
Wiclket Glueleg finally appeared on the scene, opening with the pounding percussion and rhythm of “Polio.” When I saw Glueleg last, they were opening for The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir at the Bathurst Street
n a miserable night in Kitchener, Volcano dwellers were treated to a highly energetic and entertaining show featuring relatively unheralded Toronto band Glueleg and Hamilton’s Race. Despite the weather, more than a few sound problems and a remotely interested crowd, Glueleg persevered and gave their fans a solid effort, showcasing their intense and unique hard-rock, groove-oriented style. Openers Race had the angst and intensity of twelve Rage against the Machines. Unfortunately, despite highly danceable tunes like “Light it Up” and “This Ain’t No Love Song” and able playing, their frontman’ s undisciplined, running-off-atthe-mouth, “If you don’t like my you” attitude marred scene,F*** what would have been a showstealing performance. His Are we not men, we are Glueleg! pseudo-political, “deep” outbursts were received with little Theatre in Toronto. They played more than mocking catcalls. for about half an hour, but were Their combination of reggae able to pack so much into that time, and heavy metal seemed to pull the unwilling crowd toward the dance that I was expecting either a big bang followed by a fizzle, or a total floor, however, and in this respect, sensory overload. The latter was Race were an unquestionable sucthe case. Hammering out a set cess. which included “Lilies,” “Galactic At about ten minutes to twelve,
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this may have satisfied the Crispin movie fan, but I was left wanting more. I wanted to see the freak behind all of the weird artistic images. Instead, we saw that Crispin appears to only be a freak at heart. His ideas are extremely obscure, andoften offensive but he presented himself rather normally in comparison. On the brightizr side of things, I did get to meet C’rispin. He sat at a table near the exit where fans could get their copies of his books signed or just taik to him. He seemed very appreciative of his fans but quite shy and embarrassed at the same time - just like a normal WY* The main purpose of Crispin Hellion’s Big Slide Show is to fund the completion of his own featurelength film What ,i.s if. There’s no doubt that even though Waterloo’s contribution was minimal, this tour will be successful in doing so. What is it is in the editing process right now, but Crispin insists it will be ready for release ,at the beginning of the new year. Don’t miss your next chance to experience art at its finest - Crispin style.
Cattlehand,” “Come With Me,“and “Mr. Pink” (video soon to be released on MuchMusic), Glueleg didn’t let up, and the wet, disconsolate crowd could not help but respond. Glueleg also used their crowd as “guinea pigs” for some new material. Of tlhe three or four new tunes, “Pistons” and “Titanium” were the strongest, conveying the energy and spirit that makes their last release, Heroic Doses, so enjoyable. They also experimented with Gary Newman’s 1980s hit “Cars” to add some lightness to the pounding, pulsating tunes of the set. The major fla.w of this show was the continuous and apparently unsolvable sound problems. As earl-y as the second tune, guitarist Ruben Huizenga was signalling for more vocal volume, more VOCAL, MORE VOCAL..... There were also many screams of feedback and instances of uneven mixing that could have, but thankfully didn’t, have too adverse an effect on Glueleg’s performance. Stick player Carlos Alonso said earlier in the evening that Glueleg are heading out east for two weeks of shows before heading down south for the remainder of 1995. However, if you missed the Volcano show, Alonso spoke of one Toronto show in between the east coast tour and the visit to the United States.
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eople are really lining up to see Get Shorv, and it isn’t hard to see why. After a11, Pu@ Fiction comparisons are almost inevitable. In fact, it isn’t possi ble to sit through G&t Shorty without thinking about it every step of the way. John Travolta’s mesmerizing performance, the similarity of the violent, underworld-ish subject matter, and the seemingly incoherant plot that somehow “clicks” at the end, are reminiscent of Pulp Fiction. But wait. Don’t get too excited, because that’s where the similarity ends. Sure they’re alike - in the same way that moonshine and 0.05% grocery store wine coolers are. The difference, in terms of octane level, is infinitisimal. 4% short is so much tamer - it has occasional echoes, but nothing
Toilets stronger than a very faint sense of Deja Vu. In fact, humour more than anything else predominates the film. It is subtle - a smirk here, a pink toilet there, funky camera angles and poignant undercurrents predominating. Nothing blatant, but hilarious nevertheless. By far, the best thing about this movie is John Travolta. His compelling presence makes it worth watching. His character, a charismatic gangster/movie producer named Chilli Palmer, is the sort of guy who demands respect, and gets it. What makes him unique is that he isn’t a blowhard at all - he doesn’t need to be. Chilli is wry, sarcastic, brutal and to the point. Cool as a cucumber, shrewd as an alley cat with 18 lives, as adept at avoiding pitfalls as the Road Runner, he’s the sort of guy who could saunter into the midst of a bloodthirsty mob and not even get his hair messed up. He’d take the time to network instead. Some of the other characters
also make Get Shorty work. Gene Ha&man, as Harry, starts out as such a pathetic figure that you want to shake him -but when he wakes up and begins to develop an attitude, you find yourself laughing with him, not at him. Sad as he is, you never stop rooting for him. Rene Russo, as the obligatory gorgeous love interest, puts on a great performance of her own, portraying an obviously intelligent and personable character. The movie also benefits from another good Danny DeVito performance. Bette Midler, looking surprisingly sexy and vivacious, minces into the film unexpectedly to play a minor role. She’s great, too - but you can’t help but have a nasty, disconcerted feeling that she’s making an “appearance,” because otherwise there doesn’t seem to be much point to her being there. Overall? Go for it! Gel Shorty is worth seeing. But don’t expect to be completely blown away. It’s good, but a year from now you probably won’t remember it.
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ping over the line, but what made Forrest Gump so easy to believe was that the majority of the events could actually have happened. I can believe that a he might win the Congressional Medal of Honour in Vietnam. I can’t see him exchanging pleasantries with the Ayatollah while discussing the exchange of hostages for arms. It was the sheer
preposterous nature of what happened in Gump & CO. that ruined it. Winston Groom, after spending nearly a decade trying to getForrest Gump made into a movie, rushed into producing a sequel, to maintain the tide of Gump-mania, but his effort seems sloppy and very, very contrived. Now, it may seem as though I don’t have a very high opinion of this book. True, but I haven’t even mentioned the worst part of this book. There are two particular pacts of the novel that typify the
general stupididty of the entire book. First, while eating at a fancy New York restaurant with his son, Forrest meets Tom Hanks, leading up the this witty exchange: So I tole him a bit about my checkered career, an after he listened for a while, Tom Hanks says, “Well Mr. Cump, you are sure a curious feller. Sounds like somebody ought to make a movie of your life’s story.” “Nah,” I says, “ain’t nobody interested in something like that.” “You never know,” says Tom Hanks. “‘Life is like a box of chocolates.’ By the way, I just happen to have a box of chocolates right here -You wanna buy some?” “Nab, I don’t think so, I ain’t big on chocolates - biut thatnks, anyhow.” Tom Hanks looks at me kinda funny. “‘Well, ‘stupid is as stupid looks,’ I always say.” An at that, he gets up an goes to another table. The second horrendous part of Gump & Cu. plays out over the last few pages. Paying nauseating homage to his own good fortune, Groom endsGump & Co. with Forrest Cump at the Academy Awards after the story based on his life wins the Oscar for Best Picture. The effectiveness of Forrest Gump is based on his satirizing of the American Dream, wherein a person who works hard, and is determined to succeed will see the realization of heir dreams. Forrest just SCM of lucks into something and proceeds to screw it up royally. And unfortunately, that’s the same thing that Winston Groom has done with Gump & Co.. He lucked into something, then screwed it up. And that’s all I have to say about that.
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A Complete and Utter Waste of Time SPIN Alternative edited by Eric
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his wretched piece of garbage does exactly one thing effectively: it makes its competitors look very good indeed. Whatever one thinks of Rolling Stune ideologically, I will say this for iis record guides: they’re reasonably comprehensive, they’re sensibly put together, and their writing is consistently tight, concise, and expert. Likewise, the Truuser Press record guides (on their fourth or fifth edition, T believe) are as exhaustive an overview as any of the thirty-year history of “alternative” pop music, and are also marked by unobtrusive yet persuasive prose. But if the Trouser Press books constitute an embarassment of riches, SPIN’s entry in the record guide race is just an embarassment. By far the glitziest of its kind - with full-color album cover reproductic.lns on nearly every page and big, easyto-read type - the SPIN book is also the smarmiest, shallowest, and least suhstantiai. So ridiculous is the overall effect (as one shocking omission follows another) that it’s impossible not to ascribe the sleaziest of motives to the book’s editors: let’s just get a big, slick, good-looking book with “Altemative” in the title out there, and make some money. In considering any book of this sort, the prime issue is coverage: who gets consid-
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ered, and who doesn’t? Well, this is essentially a guide to currently hip American indie rock, with a few hip-hop and jazz acts thrown in to lend some cool cachet. It‘s not acomprehensive consideration of a broad range of alternative pop, it’s a f&us-group study in slacker cool. AC/DC. ABBA, and Madonna all make the cut, hul there are very few genuinely obscure acts; this after a pompous introduction in which editor Weisbard babbles about “intentions rather than results” when determining the “alternative” factor.
ing. While dozens of contributors are listed in the back credits, the writing is surprisingly consistant: consistantly smarmy, that is, more concerned with drawing attention to itself than to the bands being discussed. Pompous, long-winded intros where none are necessary are the rule of the day, with none of the spare economy of style that characterizes both the Rulling Stone and Trouser Press books. As a result, there is simply no ethos here; when I read an opinion that dissents from my own, I’m much less likely to give it
*At the back of the L-rook is a list of “Top 100 Alternative Albums” - the worst sort of stupid hairsplitting, tailor-made for the “thumbs up/thumbs down” school of criticism. (For the record, the Ramones’ eponymous debut is number one, the Pistols’ Neller Mind the Bollocks brings up the rear at 100, and Madonna’s 1mmucula te Collpc:tinrl comes in at number eleven - I rest my case.) *Artists with solo careers every bit as influential as those of their early bands are nonetheless treated as mere spinoffs. Thus Robyn Hitchcock’s enormous solo repertoire is Dresenteld as an addendum to the Soft Boys entry (message: it’s cooler to like the Soft Boys than Roby n Hitchcock). Fugazi, meanwhile, are relegated to the Minor Threat entry, while Sugar gets its own. As for fIREHOSE, they (don’t even get more than a passing mention in the Minutemen entry. Does any of this make any sense at all? Is there anything good to say? No, not really. There are flashes of insightful writing [Shonen Knife, Elvis Costello), but they’re so rare as to be statistically insignificant. 1 did learn something about intriguing (and unfamiliar, to me anyway) artists like Albert Ayler and John Fahey, but after doing some checking, 1 realized that the SPIN guide tells me nothing about either that the Rolling Stone version wouldn’t have. And as far as the alternative demographic goes, the only thing this book has over the Trouser Press guide is its newness, since the latter’s most recent edition is at least three years old. But newness fades, and in every important quality - depth of coverage, common sense, quality and insiglht of writing - the SPIN Alternative Record Guide is a colossal failure, so half-assed and shallow and yet simultaneously pompous as to be offensive.
who didn’t make Spin’s cut: Blue Aeroplunes, Blur, Charlatans, Lluyd Cole, Julian Cope, Eleventh Dream Day, Huppy Mondays, Love, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, The Waterboys, The Wedding Present...AA?D THE LZST GOES ON!
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Kiwi bands like the Chills and the Bats make it (no doubt ‘cause they’re habitual faves of the Merge-Matador set). but look not for Blur, Lloyd Cole, Killing Joke, or almost any other British acts. In fact, as the book made its rounds throughout the office, one hysterical burst of laughter routinely followed another: “No Wedding Present?” “No Happy Mondays?” “No .Tulian Cope?” Not that I’m a huge fan of those acts, but it would seem to me that if you’re going to attempt a project of this scope, you should do it right and at least make an attempt at decent range. The book’s fundamental flaws in selection aren’t all, though; there’s also the writ-
its due, simply because it tends to be presented as all flash and gobblegook, and no substance. Here’s a sample, from the Sonic Youth entry: “Art swirl is there, too, a ‘Sprawl” modeled on sf notions of cyberspace, as if the guitar licks that curl around every song were artificial intelligences. Sonic Youth offers the anti-humanist humanism of subcult...” I’ll spare you the rest. Some other sundry offenses: *Breaking up the text are various personal “top ten” lists supplied by contributors and performers. It’s kind of a neat idea, but besides taking up far too much space, the lists are often quite ironical: I checked out, for instance, Barbara Manning’s faves, only to find that fully half of them were mentioned nowhere else in the book.
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(as described in The is a combination of Internet technology and social counter culture. They mix computer-smarts with black leather, mirror shades and a nasty attitude. While most youngsters were reading Mr. Muggs, young cyberpunks were reading William Gibson and UNIX manuals (if you don’t know who Gibson is, don’t bother reading on. This book is NOT for you!) On the socio-cultural side, cyberpunk encompasses numerous different subcultures. The authors therefore begin by devoting space to categorizing and describing the various breeds of cyber: from goths to ravers to riot grrrlz to science fiction writers. Each group has its own different styles and eccentricities. However, to say that all these can fall under cyberpunk is to suggest that a common thread exists. So the authors follow up by describing those ties that bind cyberpunks together: leather jackets, porting cool electric gear like pagers and laser pointers, and the desire to liberate information off the ‘net. The handbook imparts most of this information in a glossary format. Indeed, a large number of pages are taken up with a dictionary (If terms and acronyms (c-punks love acronyms) + When the Cyberpunk Handbook isn’t talking about culture and fashion, it’s talking about computers. Discussed are software (encryption programs, etc.), hardware (Mats versus Intel based PCs and that sort of thing) and the art of hacking. You need a certain Cyberpunk
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level of computer-competency to read this book, otherwise it may leave you gibbering and drooling on the floor. Essentially, the Cyberpunk Handbook is a collection of tips on how to be a cyberpunk: how to dress (leather and more leather), how to act (“subdued swashbuckling,” act tough, even if you’re not), even what to eat (Ramen and Jolt manna). There are tips on where to find cool Web sites and how to get started on the art of hacking. Advice given on how to behave in cyberspace -- making friends and enemies on the ‘net. There is even a chapter of “cheat cards” on books and films that budding c-punks should read or see (i.e. the Gibson trilogy and Bladerunner). If you haven’t read or seen them, you can use the cheat cards to pretend that you have. Now it may seem incredibly pretentious to write a book which basically teaches you how to be cool by pretending to be something you’re not. The Cyberpunk Handbook, however, is written tongue-in-cheek. it’s not meant for poseurs and wannabes, it’s meant for real cyberpunks to have a laugh at themselves. (Actually, a more likely motive behind this book, as the authors pretty much admit, is to make some cash by exploiting a new trend that hasn’t gone mainstream and been exploited to death.) That’s not to say that the information provided isn’t more or less true, with tidbits useful to even the most experienced ‘netcrawlers. A warning, however, to poseurs who use this book to fake cyberpunkness. A real cyberpunk will see straight through you several parsecs off and avoid you like a leper. Of course, anyone who needs to pretend to be something they’re not, in order to fit in, is a LAMER anyway and deserves all the snubbing they get. So there!
by James Russell Imprint staff Mechwarrior 2 is already an enormous success, and I can see why. This game just doesn’t have any faults, provided you’ve got the hardware (recommended instaliation is 45 MB, but if you want, you can choose “full-blown” which takes ti cool 105 MB off your hard drive). This is the situation: you are a Battlernech pilot and you get sent out on missions that will increase the strategic position of your clan. Your ultimate goal is to become clan-chief, and your worst nightmare is to fail in battle. Honour is all-important, and honour means winning. Though based on an entire series of books, you do not need to
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know anything about the Mechwarrior universe to enjoy the game. It is essentially a really good simulator, with controls more or less as complicated as a good jet sim. You have a heads-up display (I-IUD) which gives you targeting information, a weapons display, throttle info, navigational information, etc. And you run around and generally shoot the shit out ofeverybody else. The simulation is excellent. All realistic fattors have been considered e.g. your speed affects your rl(rr turn radius, temperature of the planetary surface affects how fast your weapons can overheat, when you run, your mech moves up and down (which affects your aim), even how the terrain affects your mech’s movement (chickenwalker mechs may have more trouble with steep inclines than
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Vectorman is one of the games that is supposed to “break the 16-bit barrier.” It comes close, but considering that it’s played on a S-bit machine, actually breaking the barrier is kind of impossible. The graphics are better than average though, with an almost painted background to every board. Vectorman himself is an interesting combination of circles and ovals who falls apart when he dies. Most of the bad guys are done in the same style, and it works on a visual basis at least. As for the game itself, it covers the usual shoot ‘em up video game territory. There is the usual pseudo-plot preamble at the beginning to get you in the mood and inform you of your mission, which is pretty straightfor-
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mechs with normal legs). The designers even went so far as to have a mechanical whine go off every time an enemy gets a missile-lock on you.
meaning that when you shoot stuff up you get the cool new weapon or the extra health points or the shield. You get the idea. One of the things that really ~ , got on my nerves with this game was that you couldn’t save it after any one board, get a password, or even “continue,” so when you died, you had to start over, The first screens are just time-consuming after a while, so it gets pretty tiresome seeing them over and over again. The start-up screen also took a little long to let you actually start the game, and that tends to try one’s patience when you’ve seen it more than twice. Despite the lack of originality in its design, Vectmnan is addictive for the same reason other games like this are addictive: you keep wanting to see the next board or get past the big guy at the end that has killed you the past 46 times in a row. The graphics do pull this game out of the average bin, but don’t really take it any where else.
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With the evolution of the Doom phenomenon, and the endless slew of games in which you run around in a “3-D” environement and blow away everything you see, Descent takes that one step further. Desc~~f gives you full control on all three axes, as your ship is floating in zero gravity, and you can move anyway you want. While Doom was remarkable, it still has you moving on a glorified two-dimensional map. Youcan move forward and bdck, left and right, but not up and down. On the other hand, Descent features levels that twist in every direction, disorieting you all too easily. Descent also features excellent graphics, which unfortunately allows the
takes a few precious seconds to power up. Off the field, you can choose between different mechs (you get more choices as you complete more missions) and you can customize your mechs with a variety of weapons, which all lhave different attributes. Lasers #can never run out of ammo, but generate a lot of heat. Missiles don’t make SO much heat, but have limited ammo. There are other weapons too, and you always have to consider range and weight (every mech has weight considerations, and if you want more guns, you have to ditch other stuff like heat sinks or armour). Be warned, this game gets addictive fast, and can work over a modem or on a LAN with up to 8 players (theoretically. We didn’t actually try this). Tons of fun, with absolutely excel Ient graphics and sound, I think Mechwarrior 2 is one of the best games I’ve ever played. enemies to blend in, until they jump out and blow your ass to pieces. And they do this very, very frequently, because Descent features very creative and annoying bad guys, like the invisible ones that only appear to shoot heat seeking rockets at you. However, if you like a challenge, this is a much fun as video-gaming gets. The best feature about&scent, much like Doom, is in the multiplayer mode. Playable either over a modem or on a network (but NOT on the University of Waterloo networks), the greatest thrill these games give is the ability to sneak up on your friends and exact the pain and revenge you can’t in real life. However, Desceirzt is also a fine stand-alone game, offering hours of gameplay even if you’re just playing the computer. Interplay’s Descent is one of the finest games available for the PC, and one that any game player will find enjoyment in.
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by Sandy Atwal special to Imprint Absurdly long, bizarrely packaged and pretentiously titled, The Pumpkins’ new release is imposing before even the first powerchord is heard. Considering all of the above, as well as the astronomic success of Siamese Dream, the album sets
Corgan manages to pull this one off. Despite the lack of radio-friendly unit shifters like “Disarm” or “Today” Mellun Collie and the Infinite Sudness (goddamn what a stupid title) is a worthy successor to Siamese Dream.
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by Justin Mathews special to Imprint What’s one to say when a legendary Canadian releases a new album? Surely, by now, anyone who would be reading this review has heard Stompin’ Tom. So why bother with a review of the new album? As I listened to the album I realized discussing the musicality of the recording at any length would be meaningless. The music is almost all the same as all the other Stompin’ Tom songs we know and love. But Stompin’ Tom didn’t get to where he is today with highly innovative country guitar. What makes a Stompin’ Tom song a Stompin’ Tom song is the story it
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recorded. Hooray You did it, you win! The first single, “bullet with butterfly wings” (oh yeah, and all the song titles are, in true artsy fashion, lowercase) is a relatively typical Pumpkins song. It’s quiet! It’s loud! It gets quiet again! It gets loud again! Then it gets louder! Then (wait for it) there’s a guitar solo! Who says Nirvana is dead. Curse those Seattle bastards for ever recording ‘*Smell Like Teen Spirit.” The single does have a great refrain “despite all my rdge I am still just a rat in a cage” that speaks to all those who have been ignored by a world of philistines. More than that it speaks to all those who feel alone, unloved, misunderstood, afraid, angry and helpless - in other words, everybody on the fucking planet. For my tells, and this album no different. The title track tell the story of man who goes to the Yukon in search of fortune and glory. A simple story about what he’ll do when he gets up to the Klondike. “Al Sass & John Dee” follow with a tale of a fight. John walks into a bar and picks a fight with Al Sass over the blushing blonde on his knee. They fire a few rounds from their water pistols and Al Sass leaves town with the blushing blonde. This may sound like an extremely unimaginative piece, until you hear it in Stompin’ Tom’s words. This is how he describes who won the shoot-out: Dee John, at last, was twice as fast as half-fast Al Sass was fast, And half-fast Al Sass was half as fast as Fast Dee John at last. Dee John was fast, but his blast at last passed fast past Albert Sass. But half-fast Al Sass’s half-fast blast
money, the high point of the first CD is “fuck you (an ode to no one)” perhaps the stupidest title of any song ever written ever by anyone ever ever ever. Rocking as hard as he knows how, Soundgarden would probably just die if they ever heard this, The second CD offers no real thematic difference, although I’m sure Corgan intended one. There is much more of the same, most of it quite good. Corgan has mentioned at least twice now that Mellon
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could very well be the end of the Smashing Pumpkins since he feels that band has reached the end of what he was trying to do (whatever that may be). This is perhaps the most admirable thing abotit Corgan. He can write songs, true enough, but as few people seem to know, the secret is knowing when to stop. Rather than drag out old ideas ad infinitum, Corgan, if he’s true to his word will end his career on a high note, with enough time to backtrack and follow the road not taken. Whether his future endeavours will match up to the Smashing Pumpkins is impossible to say, but for now, he has surely done more than enough. blasted Fast Dee John at last. One other song worthy of note is “Polka Playin’ Henry.” It’s a tribute to the late great Henry Kelneck. Who’s that, you ask? For years he led one of the finest big bands to grace the Canadian stage. The song features his son Ike Kelneck playing Tuba, Sax and Trombone. Stompin’ Tom also sings to us of “Country Jack (a.k.a. the Wino of Skid Row)” who is a washed up old country singer playing on skid row. There’s a song about sitting in the kitchen playing his guitar, and even a song about hanging out in an all night cafe. A bit of dated politics gets thrown in when he starts singing about Mulroney, The Loonie, The G.S.T. and Free Trade. Overall, this is a great album, if you don’t already have a Stompin’ Tom album.
You’ll want to remember the name Jordan Zadorozny. because you are going to be hearing a lot about him and his band Blinker the Star in the future. The 12 track album of the same name delivers all the treats you would expect to find in a solid indie-rock album, with quite a few unexpected tricks up its sleeve. The first track, “j-bird(pt.2)” starts you off with a jolt of angry guitar and fuzzy voices. It’s hard to make out any sort of lyric in this one, but the music caught me, so I didn’t really care. The same angst rips its way through to “Patch,” with only slightly more audible lyrics. By this point I’m wondering what he’s trying to say, and just hoping it isn’t “kill your mother, rape your dog,” because I’m really liking it. just when you think you’ve got this band all figured out, Jordon tosses “Nary Aloha” at you. This is a significant slow down from achaotic beginning, but it didn’t lose my interest in the least, and words, there are words! The album goes on to explore a tossed salad of sounds, but none so drastic as to make you forget who you are listening to. There is the occasional “Hey, that sounds like. ..” here and there, specifically “New Ex-
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EMI’s Triple Scoop compilation features tracks by twenty popular or up-and-coming groups ranging in style from the English rock of Blur and Radiohead to the thrashing wail of D.O.A. Canadian talent is well represented by such acts as 13 Engines and The Tea Party. Each of the groups on this CD are represented by one song from their latest album, with the whole package running in at a fulfilling 72 minutes. The most surprising thing about Triple Scoop, which makes it stand out from almost every other compilation that I’ve heard, is that I liked almost every song on it. Looking at the individual tracks, it’s not surprising that there isn’t a terribly weak song on the CD. Each of the groups is represented by a strong example of their track. “Just” by Radiohead is perhaps the finest track on this CD. Showing off their moody style and angst-filled lyrics, Radiohead displays their immense talents to the
cuse” which resembles Sebadoh, and sprinklings of Dinosaur Jr. and even Sonic Youth now and again, but all is genuine, all is good. This is Eilinker’s first album, and pretty much all of it was written, produced,, and played by Jordon himself, but when he does need accompaniment, like say, at a show, he calls upon Randy Ruy (bass}, and Colin Wylie (drums). This apparent need for creative independence ma:y seem like a mouthful for an artist’s first attempt, but Jordon is no stranger to music. With a mother who plays piano, and a father who passed up the opportunity to try out for the Detriot Red Wings to p1a.y the fiddle, Jordon has been exposed to enough music to know what he likes and what he doesn’t. This “If you don’t like it, kiss my ass” mentality is exactly what every good musician needs. I suddemy feel the need to make an analogy, so I will. Blinker the Star is like the fastest, twistiest, scream-inducing rollercoaster ride at your favourrite theme park. Except in the case of the CD, you won’t end up puking in the bushes.
listeners. Other exemplary tracks on this CD are “Stereotype” by Blur and “Inanna” by The Tea Party. However, I can’t say this CD isn’t without some flaws. The Smoking Popes’ contribution “I Need You Around” seems to be showing up all over the place these days, hvaing already been on two compilations (Clueless 0.S. 7’. and Triple Scoop), as well as their own CD. Considering this, EM1 could perhaps have included a different song, just to show some of the Smoking Popes’ variety. However, that is a really petty concern. Otherwise, individual listeners will have their likes and dislikes, depending on their musical tastes, but there is enough for everyone to find something to listen. Triple Scoop is essential a catalog for the alternative bands EMI hold under contract. In that, EMI has done a terrific job to showcase their talent and provide just enough of a band to peak you interest and make you consider buying the full CD. Conveniently, the album liner tells you what their latest releases are (just to reaffirm that there is more to this CD than entertainment). I really don’t care though, because I just like listening to this great disc.
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Imprint staff What the hell was I thinking? Why did I pick a CD with picture of a naked man’s ass on the front cover? I guess my neverending quest for interesting and different songs got the best of me on this one. With songs such as “Let Me Be Your Underwear,” and “Riding Into Battle With Her High Heels On,” this album looked like it might actually be mildly interesting. Again, what was I thinking? The album starts out OK, with the decent track “Diva,” a funky little dance tune, but nothing to write home to mother abut. The album then starts getting weird with the next track, “Let Me Be Your Underwear.” What follows is seven tracks of basically the same weird,
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Imprint staff 1 don’t like it when I play a CD and get the impression that my time is being wasted. I don’t like it at all, and unless your name is Jack Ass, I’m sure you don’t either. Before you think about skipping this review though, let it be known that this was not the case with the Clockers Soundtrack. Not even close. I must tell you, however, I have never heard a project commence with such a slow vibe. After listening to tracks one through four, performed by Marc Dorsey, Chaka Khan, Des’ree, and Seal respectively, I wiped the crusty, sleepy sh*t from my eyes (you know the stuff) and wondered whether I should bother with the rest of the disc or slice my bagel with it. I decided to stick it out, and I was subsequently jolted from my mellow daze and transported into the mental hip-hop labyrinth of the Crooklyn Dodger ideology. “Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers” emits a scope of pure NewYork appeal. Let me tell who’s behind the new Crooklyn team, and you can decide for yourself. If I told you the tight skills of a revitalized Chubb Rock, the swift tongue of O.C., and the galactic
sexy shit that if not for the break between tracks would have you thinking that it was just one extended track. Seven tracks of dancy sex that gives you that little special tingle while you listen to it. (Well, what else did you expect from a group called Club 69?) Anyway, after this experience a much needed change-up comes in the form of track nine, “Riding Into Battle With Her High Heels On,” a fun little song telling a story (a dance song with a plot?) about a girl’s journey from prostitution to modelling. Big leap, huh? This is probably the best song on a rather uncreative album. The album is not a total piece of crap, although it is not one of the bemr albums that I’ve ever heard. The sensuous element can make or break the album. However, after seven tracks it can get boring, almost annoying to the point that you get just plain tired of the same style for over thirty-five minutes. I guess that a lot of endurance is required to listen to this sexy album. -
knowledge and lyrical wizardry of Jeru The Damaja were intertwined into a DJ Premier musical masterpiece, what would you think? l3omb material. Poetic explosion. Pieces of hip-hop shrapnel. Pure dope. It flows through your veins like some sort of nasty drug. Put away the powder and catch a bonafide lift from this Spike Lee spliff, na’ m’ say in’? The rest of the CD comes out with the brilliance and vibrancy of a crystal prism. Mega Banton represents strong with “Bad Boy No Go A Jail,” and the first track from Rebelz of Authority, “Blast Of The Iron” slams. “Reality Check” had me asking why Buckskot LeFonque (Branford Marsalis’ crew) has been somewhat slept on in the past. “Illa Killa,” by Strictly Difficult, is a crisp track with a solid dose of bass for you system. Rebelz of Authority reappear with an upbeat style in “Sex Soldier,” and “Reality” by the BrooklyNytes closes the hype set with strength. The intense segment of true hop essence makes Clockers a disc you really need to have for your collection. Although it starts off a little slow, the quality of the coinpilation is top-notch. It’s not that I don’t like Seal and Chaka and such, I respect them greatly as artists. I think I was thrown off guard a little because I was expecting aBrooklyn cloak to cover the whole record. Now that I think about it, the varied pace makes for a fresh package.
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“And now for a taste of things to come. .. (gong)” Thus begins Mortal Kombat: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Yes, kiddies, it’s a brand-new movie soundtrack jampacked with fun and exciting bands you know and love. Does this sound familiar? Hell yes. The Soundtrack Phenomenon is a tremendous swelling blister on the face of the music world: make a movie, sell a million tickets and two million soundtracks. I won’t even bother beginning to list some of the recent offenders - chances are you have a few in your collection. But I won’t begin to get into music philosophy: here, folks, is an album that can be discredited on its own merits (or lack thereof). Mortal Kombat is a movie based on a game. (I won’t touch that one either). The soundtrack to the movie based on the game sounds disappointingly more like a soundtrack to a game - a collection more of atmosphere than interest. Psykosonik’ s “Unlearn,” for example, is nearly five minutes an incredibly lifeless trance instrumental. Traci Lords’ “Control” sounds exactly like a computerized techno .mod file, basically undistinguishable from arcade game music. Granted, it was based on an arcade game, but is it too much to expect that the move to motion picture would add another dimension to the music? Gravity Kills’ “Goodbye (demo)” should have stayed on the cutting room floor. The first forty
29 seconds are promising progressive house. Unfortunately, the studio door was left open, allowing some drunken fool to scream “Aye aye aye aye aye” at various intervals through an otherwise decent song. Welcome to the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack. Please return your chairs to the upright position and locate the “Skip” button on your remote control for your listening safety. There are a few great tracks on this album: KMFDM’s “Juke-Joint Jezebel (Giorgio Moroder/ Metropolis Mix)” stands out, as does Type 0 Negative’s “Blood & Fire.” orbital contributes a beautiful “Halcyon + On + On,” weighing in at over nine minutes of slowly devel-
oping acid trance. On the other hand, Bile, Fear Factory, and Mutha’s Day Out toss off thrash metal that is stunning in its pointlessness. The songs of the Utah Saints and The Immortals are only rescued from sinking into techno obscurity by the frequent inclusion of the “Mortal Kombat” scream. As much as this album has against it, I’ve developed the habit of screaming “MORTAL KOMBAT!” several times a day. This :slbum could be of some interest to fanatics of the included bands and perhaps die-hard Mortal Kombat players. But “a taste of things to come?’ Let’s hope not, Get it on video - or better yet, just play the game.
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Try not to dance and you’ll find yourself itching, maybe tapping a foot or humming along, but the urge attimes is overwhelming. The genre of ‘rap’ has undergone several changes over the years with its inception circa Grand Master Flash through to Public Enemy and beyond (skipping a few notables of course). Its limits have been pushed and expanded into dance, acid jazz, house, and hip hop. Its been a long journey but we’re all the better for it. Out of these transformations come The Jazzhole with ...unn rhe feel@ goes rtrund, a fusion of r&b, funk, and rap. Plenty of catchy, danceable tracks, with lots of cheesy motown romance thrown in. The disc is in the form of a radio broadcast as our DJ “Moonlight Sonata” takes us through a spotlight on The Jazzhole. The format is kind of cool at first, with a jazz guitar playing away in the
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O.k. ,,. 1 gotta admit it. 1picked this CD to review because the cover caught my eye. I mean, how often do you see a CD cover with sheep on it and a statue of a headless wornan pressing her neck against a As an added bonus, this rock? album was actually pretty decent. Musically, overall, this album follows a fairly predictable trend. Some hard stuff, some light stuff, some more hard stuff, and so on and so forth. While I suppose this kept the album from becoming repetitive, I found it rather annoying after a while, because it was impossible for me to stay in one set Iistening mode. I kept having to switch every other song or so. Only three songs really stuck out acoustically, the first one being
background, but after the second or third of these interludes the novelty wears thin. The first song track “The Beat is the Bomb,” is super funky and one might swear that Parliament reformed to play on this one. The vocals are htraightforward rap, which adds a refreshing element to the backing music. As the tracks play themselves out, one quickly notices the diversity not only in the style but in the vocalists themselves. Out of the nine members in the band, seven are listed as lead vocals, and their musical positions are equally as diverse finding many playing two or three instruments. 1 found the tracks either one of two types, funky/dance or soulful/ jazz. The former tracks ie “Shining Star” and “Is It Still Love?,” are done really well with great backing bass lines and hyped vocals. The later are really too cheesy to take seriously as the vocals are overly smooth and soft, “did I tell you how sexy you look with your hair in dreads/I wanna make beautiful babies with you” .-and the f&ling goes round does a formidable job of mixing several genres with an impressive array of songs. “Muddy Jesus, ” which I would define as souding %ew age with heavy guitar ri ffs .” The second song, called “Train Tracks,” had the sound of a train incorporated into it - a nice, if slightly cheezy touch. Finally, the song “Stain” really stood out due to its jazzy sound and backup singing by Sass Jordan. Lyrically, I’d pretty much dikide this album into two categories: a} simple and straightforward and b) songs that didn’t make a lot of sense with layers of symbolism. Songs such as “Daggers,” “You’ll Song” Be Gone,” and “Morning fell into category “a” and made for nice, easy, relaxing listen. On the other hand songs such as “Lie” and “Today” I’ll be damned if 1 know what they’re about. Modernday Fokelnre is generally a pretty good album and it especially appeals to me because I have fairly eclectic taste and like a little of everything. Whether one is in the mood for hard rock, jazz, or romantic love songs, this album covers it all.
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Sun 60 is your basic guitar driven, girl-rock pop group. You will like this album if you like, say, The Breeders, Veruca Salt, or Letters to Cleo. Because you will hear this album and say, gee, these guys sound a lot like The Breeders, Veruca Salt, and Letters to Cleo. Relying on catchy guitar riffs and lead singer Joan Jones’ oh-sosweet-yet-just-a-little-bit-pushy voice to create something distinct
by Darcel Khan special to Imprint For Newfoundland’s Kim Stockwood, getting a record deal was as easy as moving to Toronto and performing two songs on a piano stool, Stockwood, a former copywriter, and current roommate of ex-Much VJ Erica Ehm (one might choose to question her taste, at least in roommates) was discovered by the president of EMI only two months after leaving her hometown. Two years and 50 songs later, Stockwood has released
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To be direct, this is a fantastic compilation, equalled this year only by the double CD Mucru Dub Infection album for diversity of sound within a loose thematic framework. the I:,, llufeb utiscribe the music as “Clint Eastwood music ... music with no name.” What you could say is that there’s a bit of trip hop, a bit of jungle, and a bit of some other bits of looped drum beats that no one’s developed a label for yet. The liner notes also emphisize the immediacy of this release, the spirit of exploration and trail-blazing that these artists embody. The fact is, it all rings pretty The Bristol hip-hop true. triumverate of Tricky, Portishead and Massive Attack all make appearances, but since the latter two are just remixes of “Numb” and “Katmacoma” respectively, and the Tricky song is lifted verbatim from
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and grab your attention, Sun 60 fail miserably only because their sound is the same as so many other groups, so that it is no longer distinct or attentiongrabbing. That said, this is a pretty good album. lt’you can get over thinking that you’ve heard it all befire, Hadjoy contains some decent music. Although the lyrics aren’t exactly earth-shattering, Sun 60 do manage to come out with a few odd gems over the course of the album, and for those brief moments, they rise above mediocrity. One of the most enjoyable things about this album is the pacing. It starts on an upbeat, but slows down nicely for the third track before picking up again for the next couple of songs. This alternation of fast and slow is continuous throughout the album, and is useful in allowing greater display of Jones’ vocal abilities, as well as giving us a break from the otherwise constantly driving guitar. Sun 60 even make a brief departure from their
usual style with “Desert Song,‘* with the first few lines presented as spoken-word. The group quickly degenerate back to their usual, all-out style before the chorus starts in, but spoken-word pops up here and there throughout the rest of the song, and the result is a nice mesh of the two genres. The title track HISby far one of the weakest on the album, with a childish, sing-songy feel to it. But tracks like “Baby*,“ with its funky opening bass line and jazzy trumpet at the end, the all-out “Cmon Kiss Me,” and the Ioungy piano and echoey feel of ‘*Grass is Greener” well redeem the lesser songs, and make the album worth a listen.
Bonivista, her first CD. Said to be an eclectic mix of mood and stylesBonivista is She@ Crowe-like-pop with a strong country base. Stockwood has a beautiful voice and is equally adept at singing pop or country. The pop influence is less obvious on this CD, but can be heard in her Sarah McLachIan-esque vocals in the ballads “Enough Love,““Be Where You Are” and “How Many Miles” ( a song for anyone who’s far away from home.) The upbeat pop number “She’s Not In Love” features the songwriting talents of Jill Sobufe with Randy Bachman and Matthew Sweet on electric guitar. Despite the star overload on this song, it’s an easily forgettable tune. Most of the songs continue along that fine line between pop
and country, with a noticeable Patsy Cline influence on “Love when You Need Love” and “Cry Crazy.” However, Bonivista also includes the song “Nashville,” co-written by Stockwood and Randy Bachman, which bypasses that line delving right into the heart of corny, twangy country: “Johnny changed his name to Elvis/Though he couldn’t sing a tune/He left his girl in Texas/Said he’d be a legend soon/Johnny bought a guitar/A Stetson from KMart/Now he’s a K#araoke cowboy/ And he’s trying to play the part.” Despite Stoc kwood’s lilting voice and her all star ensembIe, Bonivista isn’t likely to appeal to everyone. But for Sheryl Crowelike, new country/pop fansBonivista will be worth a listen.
his album, these aren’t the main attractions here. What’s more interesting are the tracks from little known or completely obscure names on the album. D*Note go the jungle route, and lay in some jungle grooves on “Iniquity Worker,” following their tradition of making fast beats sound entirely mellow. A
Bass. Ben Harper from the Chemical Brothers makes the “Whipping Boy (Remix}” sound like Stevie Wonder doing a ja;zzy take on triphop The highlight comes with the be-bop-funk-jungle workout that is UFO’s “United Future Airlines” that has my foot tapping simultaneous with me typing this, and is one of the five best dance tracks I’ve lad the pleasure of hearing this year. On a less positive note, Paul Weller’s “Kosmos” shows up as essentially the product of its remixer, since Weller is by no means a musical innovator in this field, and further the B-Boys “Get It Together” is a pointless and redundant inclusion that’s probably just there to sell records. One could also sa,y that mention of artists like DJ’s Gush and Shadow would give the compilation a greater sense of inclusiveness. With the end product in mind however, these bec:ome trifling concems, and though many of these tracks date back a year or even two, The Rebirth uf Cool P hive serves as a fantastic litmus test of the triphop-jazz-fusion-or-whatever-youcall-it scene today. Well worth searching for if you’re a fan.
_.. more soulful groove flows through Jhelisa’s “Friendly Pressure,” while keeping to the rhythmic feel of the tunes on this camp. There’s a funky bass feel to “Boundaries” by Leena Conquest and the remix of “Bug Powder Dust” by Bomb the
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Nov.
7 “Cults”: A Manifestation of Evil”. St. Clair M&venue has examined cult practice and its devastating effects on young people. Come join us at 7 p.m. at Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s College. Free admission!
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Vegetarian Seminar This is a basic seminar for those interested in becoming a vegetarian and don’t know where to begin or how to eat a healthy vegetarian diet. If these questions are puzzling you, plan on attending the vegetarian seminar sponsored by Health Services. Bring your lunch and your questions. Health Services room 127 12130 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. pre-registration is necessary. Call extension 2424. Coming Out Discussion Group explores issues in sexual orientation. Topic: “Home Towns: Where I come from. Hagey Hall Room 378,7:30 p.m. 884-4569 for more information. Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered people, and those questioning their sexuality are welcome. Waterloo Science Fiction Club (WatSFiC) meeting 7:00 p.m. in SLC 2135. Bring a board or card games to play afterwards. See uw.ctubs.watsfic ore-mail watsfic@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca for details.
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JUST ANOTHER EXCUSETO PARTY!! 8:OOp.m. South Campus Hall, Festival Room. Tickets ava.ilable at Orifice (CPH 1327) $5.00 in advance, $7.00 at the door. CASH BAR!!
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K-W Chamber Music Societypresents Irving Ilmer-violin and viola, 8oyd McDonald-Fortepiano, Margaret Metcalfe-viola, Matthew Jones-cello. 8:00 p.m. at the New Unitarian Fellowship House 96 Dunbar S., Waterloo Tickets $15 Student special - no reservations, available space only $9
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“Leap of Faith” witn speakers Jean Downey of HollyOak and Randi Grummet and Marg Striven of Angel Treasures. 7:OO tog:30 p.m. B Christ Luthern Church (Anndale and Lexington in Waterloo.) Cost $15 (charitable receipt for $12 provided) Tickets available at HollyOak and Angel Treasures or call Deb Westman @ 745-0344. Proceeds go to Anselma House. Free information session on taking control of childhood asthma. Presented by Dr. Bruno DiGravio. 7:30 to 9:OO p.m. in the auditorium 8 Freeporf Health Centre, Grand River Hospital. For more information and registration call the Lung Asssociation ‘Waterloo Region @ 8868100.
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