IMPRINT The UW Student
Newspaper
Student Life Centre, Room 1116 University of Waterloo Watttrlou, Ontario NZL 3GI 5 19-8811-4048
Friday
Februtiry
Volume
23,
18, Number
ISSN
1996 28
0706-7380
Don’t spend
Student by Peter
Lenardon
Imprint staff hc Ontario Student Assistante Program (OSAP) A is changing, and Joanne Wade of the Fmancial hid Office wmts yw to be informed. The amount of Ioans that studcnt!r receive could be seriously 3fl&t~d. Student assets arc back in the ;1~sessment pha~ of OSXP. LJnIike sww other provir~ces. parenlai as5iCts will not he included. but ;mg. vehicles, RRSP’:,, bon&. or bank a~count balances held by a SW dent will result in a decreased level of OSAP Ioans. Jf, however, a student is fortunatt’ enough to own their principal residence, that property will not be included in the calcuiation of loan amounts. Overaw ards is another area where OSAP will become the same as the Canada Student Loan program. There are a few reasons why an overaward could occur. A student could end up with a higher income than originally stated or receive money
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Sandy Atwal, Peter Brown, Melissa Dietrich, Chris Edginton, Joanne Gamer,CurtisGloade. Ken t-ic~ne, Andrew Henderson. Dave Lynch, Krlty MacKinnon, Tt>ny Martins, Justin Mathews. Pat Merlihan, Kimberly Moser,Jane Pak, Mark Rankin, Sarah Reihart, James Russell, Natalie Sonosky, IJW InformationundPublic Affairs, UW News Bureau, Patrick Wilkins. Allen Wiseman, WPIRG andThe Parking Lot 1sFull. Imprint is the official student newspaperofthe University of Waterloo. It is an editorially independent newspaper published by lmprint Publications, Waterloo, a torpor-ation without share capitaLImprint is a member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Asskation (OCNA).Imprint is published every Friday during fall and winter terms, and every second Friday during the spring term. Imprint reserves the right to screen, edit, and refuse advertising. Imprint ISSN 07067380. Mail should be addressed toImprint, Student Life Centre, Room 1116, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N 2L 3G 1. Our e-mail address; editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Our fax number is 884-7800. An online version of Imprint is also available on the World-Wide Web at http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/
Strike Imprint staff S by Kieran
Green
ome of t’W’s co-op students may find themselves in it real predicament very
soon.
% the 6~~~,?~~~~&~~f~~~ _1 (?? tario l&blic Service Employees Union (OPSEU) will be in a legal position to go on strike. If that happens, co-op students working forthe provincial government will be put in a very awkward position. They will have to decide whether to join the strikers or continue their work terms and cross the picket line. According to the UW Cooperative Education department, between 60 and 70 students are currently placed with the Ontario provincial government. Bruce Lumsden, Director of Co-operative Education, said that the Coop department is putting together a statement. Lumsden said that the affected students will need to talk to both their managers and their local coordinators before deciding what to do. Some managers, he said, have already established contingency plans whereby students would continue work, possibly working at home, in the
it all in one place...
Loans from another source. Also, if a student’s course load drops to less than 60% of full time or if the time the student is znrolled
decreases, the student is deemed to have received too much in loans. The difference since the changes is that this overaward
will
to Change will be taken out of the next year’s loan. That could leave a student in a pinch if they spent the money (whether they needed to spend it or notj. Wade, who deals with hundreds of student loan cases a year advises that students save any overawards. “If’ you were an adult, you woul<l set that money aside.” Currently. students can earn up to $800 each term exempt from their OSAP assessment. There arc also separate dcductions available for student awards and bursar&. After the changes to the program, the maximum exemption for any and all forms of income will be $3110 per ternI. “Thecosts for education that OSAP and CSL calculate art3 below what students need,” says Wade. She tells students to be prepared to spend $5000 to $5500 per term- The OSAP scale for student expenses ranges from $4600 to $5200 for each term. “So the $300 is not really giving students anything extra,” This drop in income exemp-
affect
event of a strike. According to Lumsden, if students are not able to work because of a strike, the Co-op department may consider giving them their work-term credit for the two months already worked. “In that way it’s fortuitous that this is happening at this point, two months into the term and not two weeks.” Katie FitzRandolph, Com-
The provincial government is also attempting to decrease the number of def‘dulted loans by making it illegal for students who owe money from school loans to Continued
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students
ing dues to OPSEU, they may be required to join the strikers. The Co-up department was unsure as to whether students placed in the government do in fact have union dues deducted from their pay cheques. Between February 15 and 17, OPSEU members voted on whether to accept or reject the Harris government’s contract proposal. Approximately 72 per
YStarting off scabbing dues not strike me as a good way to start a working career.” - Kate F&Randolph munications Officer for OPSEU, believes that co-op students should join the picket lines if a strike occurs. “If they are working in the bargaining units, I would hope they would join the picket lines,” she said. “Starting off scabbing does not strike me as a good way to start a working career-.” FitzRandolph pointed out that, if co-op students are pay-
tions could be a disincentive fol students thinking of getting a part-time job since their OSAP loan would decrease for ever) dollar one earns over $300. Tht: difference, Wade admits, is that students don’t have to pay bath this extra money they earn.
cent of the membership voted to reject the offer. The government is offering: to double severance pay to two weeks for every year worked up to a maximum of one year’s salary; to eliminate unpaid days off; to shorten layoff notice time from eleven months to 6; to restore a three per cent merit pay for about one-third of workers; and a promise to do “everything possible” to protect
the wages, pension and seniority rights of workers whose jobs get privatized. On the other side, the union wants the government: to guarantee jobs for privatized workers with existing pay and benefits; to provide job retraining; to give 60 weeks severance pay to those with five years seniority and up to SO weeks pay for those with les\ than five years; to provide a full pension for workers over SO who have 10 years experience; and to give a cost-of-living allowance if inflation climbs over three per cent. The Harris government and OPSEU are currently engaging in negotiations to try and avert the strike. If the talks f;lil, most provincial public service employees will walk off the job on Monday 23. It is predicted that a strike will, have a profound impact on the province. The processing of’most documents - deeds and mortgages, birth, marriage and death certificates, and other permits - in the province will grind to a halt. Approxirnately 12,047 union members will be required to stay on the job to provide essential services such as snow ploughs and welfare cheques.
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Friday, February
NEWS
23,1996
Election
Counting
ballots:
by Peter
Lenardon
what
spoils
is appropriate?
Imprint staff
I
n last week’s Federation of Students elections, two races were decided by a margin of votes which was smaller than the number of spoiled ballots. A statistic like this is largely due to the small voter turnout, but it is a peculiar result nonetheless. Mark Ferrier won the race for Vice President, Administration and
Finance by 48 votes over Chris McGrath; 95 ballots were spoiled. Julie Primeau won the race for Vice President, Internal by 44 votes over Tricia Mumby; 77 ballots were spoiled. When the distribution of votes and the number of spoiled ballots breaks down like this, the definition of a spoiled ballot becomes especially important. In the Federation of Students Procedures Governing Elections
A response by K&y
T
he Council of Ontario Universities recently released a proposal in response to the provincial government’s 15% cuts in operating grants to Ontario’s colleges and universities. This document was sent to all MPPs. Entitled Government Grunts, Tuition Fees and Student Aid, it addresses these very things; it focuses on how such cuts will affect educational standards, it compares the funding of Ontario’s universities to those in other provinces. and it tackles the thorny issue of how restructuring will be accomplished. The proposal, and an accompanying letter, strongly drove home the point that the repercussions of the cuts, as POOr& t0 outlined inThe Common Sense Revolution, would be felt not only by students. Cuts to operating grants, in addition to threatening accessibility, can damage programs and sharply reduce employment levels in are also the lowest in the country. universities. The proposal concludes that “OnThis in turn can damage socitario’s universities are underfunded ety and the economy as a whole, as
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universities are underfulzded and positioned cope with any further cutbackP
“Previous
governments
and
the
universities have agreed that Ontario’s universities are crucial in developing a more educated populace, preparing people for the professions, providing study at the highest intellectual levels, conducting basic and applied research, and providing service to the commu-
and poorly
positioned
and By-elections, section D.5.c says declares that “A ballot shall be considered spoiled if: i. it is not obvious by an appropriate mark which candidate was the voter’s choice; ii. it is not initialled by a polling officer; or iii. any marks signifying the identity of the voter are present.” The question then becomes what is an “appropriate mark?” This seems to be left to a judgement call for those counting the ballots and ultimately, the Chief Returning Officer. Rose Bilicic, outgoing Vice President - Internal said that in one case, a student scratched out all of the candidates’ names except one, and that name was deemed to be the voter’s choice. She also said that a student could put a happyface on the ballot next to a candidates name and that would be acceptable. In a Canadian federal or provincial election, virtually any mark other than an X or check mark in the box beside a candidates name spoils the ballot. The ballots from this year’s Feds executive election are to be kept for three months, but a request by Imprint to see the ballots was denied because of concerns about tampering.
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niey.” In fact, it is pointed out that for every dollar that Ontario universities receive in government funding, they return four to the economy. The proposal includes benchmarks for Ontario universities. In the current fiscal year, their share of provincial government spending has declined from 6% to 4%. In addition, operating grants have been reduced by a quarter since the late seventies, and are, per capita, the lowest in Canada. University grant levels as a proportion of provincial personal income in Ontario
MacKinncm
Impsint stdf
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to cope with
any further cutbacks in Provincial grants.” The good news is that over the last decade, tuition fees in Ontario have increased less than in most other provinces. In fact, they are lower than they were during the sixties, if inflation is taken into
account. The proposal does acknowledge that the cuts outlined in the Common Sense Revulution will, in all probability, become reality, and it offers suggestions for the govemment to make them as smoothly as possible. It stresses that universities cannot absorb the cuts without significant restructuring, as at least 80% of operating expenditures go toward employee salaries and benefits. These cannot be reduced significantly without affecting educational quality. In order to maintain high standards in Ontario’s universities, government cuts must be offset by higher tuition fees. To maintain accessibility, student aid programs must be expanded. The proposal recommends the introduction of income contingent student loans to help students cope with rising tuition. It also recommends that with decreased government funding should come increasing flexibility for universities in setting tuition levels, This includes greater autonomy for university boards of governors to determine appropriate levels for their respective institutions, and extends to charging different fees for different programs. The proposal also recommends that to increase competitiveness, institutions be able to charge more manageable fees to international students, as the current fee schedule is out of reach for many foreign students.
1996 General
Annual Meeting
. For the purpose of electing the Board of Directors, reporting on the activities of the previous financial year, and consideration of a resolution to index membership fees.
Student Life Centre Monday - 11 March 1996 - 5 pm Light dinner served 500 pm (tickets $2 ). AGM business & elections commence 5:30 pm. To vote, you must be a paid member.
5 pm March 4. Pick up a nomination form at lthe WPIRG office (GSC 125). Call 8884882 for more information.
NEWS
English by Peter Imprint
bnardon staff
M
odem Canadian history was the topic as Dr. John English, Liberal M.P. for Kitchener and UW history professor on leave, spoke at the Kitchener Public Library. He offered a historic perspective on Canada’s current constitutional crisis. Dr. English opened with a 1995 quote from Toronto Sfar columnist Richard Gwynn which predicted a huge defeat for Quebec’s separatist forces in the next sovereignty referendum. This faulty predictiun was then contrasted with the current overarching pessimism about the future of a united Canada. But Dr. English’s message was clear: “our problems today are not new.” The presence of issues like unemployment, declining real incomes, and Quebec nationalism are mirrored Dr. John throughout our history as far back as 1896. Then, as now, provinces threatened separation; under the Fielding government, Nova Scotia was the dissenter. (Fielding later became federal Finance Minister.) At that time Canada had a
IMPRINT,
on Canada predominantly rural population and declining incomes meant migration to cities and even the United States. “People voted with their feet,” said English. Quebec’s demands for greater decentralization of the federation and more autonomy began practically right after Confederation. Dr. English pointed out that these de-
feet of increased nationalism. After grounding the audience historically, Dr. English gave his assessment of the Quebec question. Some of the problems which he believes are complicating the search for a mutually acceptable agreement between Quebec and the rest of Canada (TROC) include: the staleness of the issue and the increasing prominence of western provinces. Another problem is the degradation of the parliamentary system. The official opposition does not want to form the government of Canada as is customary; the Bloc Queb&ois wants to break up the country and its leader barely speaks english. Add to these the fact ’ that immigrants avoid Quebec (TROC accepts ten times as many immigrants as Quebec), and TROC’s demands for clear terms of separation and an amicable solution seems unlikely. Dr. English conI ~ eluded however, that Canada is still only one English: talking about Quebec - again. of eight countries in the mands have continued throughout world that has not had a violent Canada’s history though they may change of government since 1900, have been more intense since 1960. and is still looked upon by the rest During this time of the “Quiet of the world as one of the best Revolution,” Quebec’s economy places to live. It is simply the nature was modernized and its society was of Canadian society to focus on our secularized, with a heavy side-efproblems, not our strengths.
The stylists at Apple II Hair Salon in the Student Life Centre (top) had to get inventive when the entire campus lost power for four hours last Friday, February 16. They dragged their chairs out into the hall and continued cutting using the emergency lighting. Meanwhile, Waterloo North Hydra workers (bottom) struggle to correct the cause of the the blackout: a hydra pole on Columbia Avenue that had been knocked down by a car.
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uw Information t last night’s senate meet ing there was a general discussion of budget cuts, reorganization and the way UW is facing changing times. Downey noted that each major area in the university has been asked to plan for a 7 per cent budget cut in 1996 97 and, tentatively, another 4 per cent in 1997-98. The numbers are a “guess at this stage” toward meeting the “financial challenges” of an $18 million to $19 million loss in annual income from the provincial government (and the possibility of another cut next year). Some early retirement savings will help establish a Central Rein-
“Decisions at Waterloo are made historically at the department or faculty level,” said provost Jim Kalbfleisch. He said a review of the administrative organization is under way “to see what new structure makes sense” in the Twake of retirements by ? lur senior executives and many department heads. Plans are to begin advertising for key positions next monil I Gail Culhtbert Brandt, principal of Renison College, eked about hiring more women. Said Kalbfleisch, “We will make sure we search out women candidates, and we expect to see a significant increase in the number of female appointments.” (There are now many more available and qualified
vestment
women
and
Public
AffUrs
A
Fund
of $3 million-
That
will allow “strategic” action to fill replacement positions or do things like acquire equipment. In hiring replacements, Downey said, “We have to move quickly and we have to get it right. We might not know if we were successful for another 10 years.” Priorities in filling positions?
candidates
than 20 or more
years ago when many of the retirees were hired, he explained.) Said the provost, “We want the government to know we’re huti and art: going to Lose a lot of people,” while at the same time letting prospective students know LJW continues to offer a high-quality program.
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University of Waterloo team of computer science students finished third in the finals of an international computer programming contest last weekend in Philadelphia. Michael Van Biesbrouck, Philip Chong and Ka-Ping Yee were members of the team that placed behind the University of California at Berkeley, which won the Association for Computer Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, and Harvard University, which came second. Forty-three teams matched wits in the prestigious programming contest after advancing from a pool of more than 1,000 university teams around the world. Last year, top spot went to the Univ&sity if Freiburg in Germany. In 1994, a
by Jane President, Federation
Pak of Students
It’s Reading Week (or Reading 2-days for those of you in Math or Engineering) and the campus is dead-.-but, that won’t continue. There’s tonnes of stuff to do, events to attend, people to nominate as soon as you get back onto campus. These are all services provided for you and I encourage you to take a part in them. I’ve heard people say that there is nothing to do in Waterloo. Well, that’s just not true...just read on and you’ll see.... It’s that time of year when you can nominate someone you feel has shown excellence in leadership with an outstanding contribution. It’s the thirteenth annual Student Leadership Banquet. There are eight student awards: one for each faculty, one overall participation award and one overall leadership award. Please tie the time to nominate as many students you feel are worthy of consideration. You can pick up a nomination form in the Fed office, just ask Marilyn and have them returned by Wednesday, March 20. Another award that is given out at the Student Leadership Banquet is the Landlord/Landlady of the Year Award. This award has been established to promote the many healthy relationships that exist between landowners and their tenants. The FEDS would like to offer this award to demonstrate the positive relationships in the community and to say thank-you to the landlords/landladys who help make students feel that K/w istheir home. If you would like to nominate your
UW team won the international championship. UW coach Jo Ebergen, a computer scientist, said the strong showing of the UW team was even more remarkable considering the lastminute replacement of one of the original team members, Chris
Forty-three teams matched t
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Hendrie, by Chong. Hendrie suffered a collapsed lung shortly before the team was to leave for the competition. For their efforts, the UW team members each won a $1,500 US scholarship. The ACM contest,
again sponsored by Microsoft, offered more than $35,UO0 US in prize money. In the contest, teams were given one computer terminal and eight problems to solve within five hours. The problems ranged from mathematical puzzles and spreadsheets to game simulations and engineering applications. Berkeley solved six problems with a score of 7 12 - indicating the sum of the solution times for each solved problem - while Harvard solved six problems with a score of 796. UW also solved six problems with a score of 866. Ebergen also said that four other Canadian teams managed to advance to the ACM championship this year: Simon Fraser University, placed 8; University of Toronto, 13; and University of Saskatchewan, 27.
landlord/landlady, please fill out a nomination form which are available in the FED office. The Womyn’s Centre will be celebrating International Women’s Week with a talk from Ellen Gabriel in the Theatre of the Arts on Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m. She will be speaking about Native selfgovernment and what it means. She will also discuss the Mohawk nation and its history. Tickets are only $5 and are on sale now at the Turnkey Desk, HMV Waterloo, and the Fed office. Call x3457 for more
Bands. This great event will take place on Friday, March 8 at the Bombshelter. If you have some talent and would like the chance to play at the Bomber, drop by the Fed office and pick up an application. Applications are due by Wednesday, February 28, with a 5-10 minute demo tape. St. Paul’s College will be hosting it’s 24th annual Black Forest Coffeehouse on March 1stand 2nd. Both evenings begin at 8 p.m. and each evening has a different lineup of fine talent. There are some great bands coming in March.
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people to nominate. information. Volunteers are needed to help out with the Student WATGreen Network. WATGreen is currently looking at combining the university’s expertise in the environmental field with fiscal responsibility, in particular, they are trying to find ways of improving the campus environment and in doing so, reducing the University’s operating budget. The first meeting will be on Thursday, February 29 at 7 p-m. in the SLC. If you have any questions, please contact either Rose Bilicic at x4042 or Jeremy Steffler at jr2steffQchemical. Play in a band? Well, applications are now being accepted to the Winterfest ‘96 Battle of the
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iill be playing at Fed Hall on March 2. Tickets for both shows are available at the Fed office. The Jewish Students Association will be hosting its annual Purim Party at the Atlas on March 2 at 8:30 p,m. Call the JSA Hotline at xJSA2 for more information. WATSFIC is hosting its 46th AD&D Format tournament on March 16 and 17. The cost is $36 for a team of six, or $6 per person. For more information, or to register, email watsfic@ calum. There is over $700 in prizes! WATSFIC is also having a Monty Python night at Fed Hall on February 26 at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $2 for non-members and free to all members. The Arts Student Union has opened nominations for the next executive. Nominations are available at the ASU office, in AL 120, and are due on February 26th at 4 p.m. Elections will take place on March 4. Who ever said there was nothing to do in Waterloo?
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Friday, February 23,1996
WPIRG Waterloo
Public
General STUDENT PROTESTS RACISM Maneshkona-Shontae Praileau, a 22 year old Senior and Henderson Hall Scholar at the Wniversity of Vermont, wrote in her diary in the wee hours of December 1, 1995, “As of today until things change, I will begin a hunger strike.‘* Praileau, an ALANA (African Latino Asian Native American) community student leader as well as one of five women of colour terrorized by racially motivated campus death threats, outlined six issues that, if addressed, would end her strike and would empower UVM students of colour with full participation in administration decisionmaking processes that impact their education and well being. Since the 1980’s, ALANA students at the University of Vermont have vigorously protested a long history of racist policies and practices but were met with administrative broken promises and threats of judicial backlash. Charges were levelled then, as now, that appointments and programs that are alleged to promote cultural diversity are in fact geared toward assimilation, and permit racially offensive practices against ALANA students and faculty to continue unabated. Thomas I? Salmon, University President and former Governor of the State of Vermont, has com-
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municated the University ’ s formal position to the University Board of Trustees on the 35th day of the strike. “Ideas and requests will receive consideration based entirely on their merits,” wrote Salmon on January 4, 1996, “and decisions will not be made simply to end protests. Institutional priorities will continue to follow principles of educational quality, fiscal responsibility, sound management practices, and fidelity to the educational mission of The University of Vermont .” Within this statement, Salmon asserts that Praileau’s demands for inclusion in administrative decision-making regarding ALANA community issues are “separatist.” The Graduate Student Coalition for Racial Justice/UVM Alumni, released a statement of their own following the issuance of Salmon’s letter, urging UVM Alumni to boycott contributions to the University. “We really find it incredulous and sincerely racist that Salmon can conscientiously stand up and profess that it does not take protests to get administrative attention. Protest has been the sine qua nolt for gaining the most minimal amount of University attention
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declare bankruptcy within the frost two years after graduation. All of these changes come from Canada Student Loan (CSL) policies, and Ontario will implement them as of fall 1946. CSL inforrnation booklets like the one in the inset of this article are available in the Financial Aid Office in Needles Hall. When asked about income con-
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on these issues ! !” Maneshkona-Shontae writes, .‘Remember that I am a human being. When you see me or my peoples treat me and us as human beings, that is all I am asking. Shontae Praileau loves her people.”
tingent loan repayment programs (TCLR’s), Wade said she had “mixed feelings about it.” She pointed out that the Australian ICLR program only deals with tuition costs for students, which any student will say is not nearly the only cost of going to a post-secondary institution. “I agree with [ICLR’s] as a repayment mechanism, [but] students need to be loaned enough money to go to school in the first place.”
Contact: SHONTAE PRAILEAU DEFENSE AND SUPPORT COMMITTEE, P.O. Box 57, Burlington, VT 05402, Phone 802-863-057
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125 888-4882 these charges. The government of Peru has never demonstrated any evidence to support a charge of treason. They apparently want to use our daughter to frighten human rights activists and foreign journalists out of Peru.” Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, an attorney assisting the Berenson family said, “Peru continues its
“Remember that I am a human being. When you see me or my peoples treat me and us as human beings, that is all I am asking.” -- Maneshkona-Shontae
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AID WORKER IMPRISONED IN PERU A twenty-six yearo1dU.S. citizen, Lori Berenson, who has been working with the poor in Peru has been arrested, charged with treason, and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Peruvian military tribunal. Rhoda Berenson, Lori’s mother, said “Lori is innocent of
to cross-examine witnesses and to present evidence in herowndefense, the Peruvian government has used masked military officers in a secret proceeding to silence the truth and condemn the innocent. A political decision was made to give an A merican the maximum sentence though there was no claim she committed a violent act, or intended to, or even visited Peru until recently. Everyone whocares about fairness, justice, and human rights should protest immediately to Peruvian President Albert0 Fujimori, Palacio Gobierno, Lima, Peru.
massiveabusesofhu-
man rights and complete denial of due process of law.” Lori Berenson has been held virtually incommunicado, subjected to exhausting interrogation, night and day, psychological violence and deception to break her will. They have failed. In the degrading forced appearance before the press at the very time a military judge considered secret charges against her, and without a lawyer, family, or friends present, Lori Berenson said “I am to be condemned for my concern about the conditions of hunger and misery which exist in this country *.* Yo amo este pueblo (I love this people) .” Rather than present evidence, if it has any, to a civilian constitutional court in a public trial with rights to counsel, to remain silent,
WPIRG BOARD NOMINATIONS Nominations for the WPlRG Board of Directors open 9 a.m. February 26 and close 5 p.m. March 4. Pick up a nomination form at the WPIRG office.
WPIRG’s AGM WPIRG’s Annual General Meeting for the purpose of electing the Board of Directors, reporting on the activities of the previous fiscal year, and consideration of a resolution to index membership fees will be held in the Student Life Centre (above Brubakers), Monday, March 11, 1996, at 5 p.m. A light dinner will be served at 5 p.m. (tickets $2). ACM business elections will commence at 530 p.m. To vote, you must be a paid memher.
Who ya gonna call?
Ethics by Peter Imprint
T
Lenardon staff
he Ethics Committee is an administrative body which exists to address concerns which arise out of Policy 33, a scheme whichallows students, staff, and faculty members to address behaviour they believe is harmful to them. (“Ethical Crusaders,” Imprint February 9, 1996.) The policy declares, “Every person in the university community has a right to institute and participate in proceedings under Policy 33 without reprisal or threat of reprisal for doing so.” The Ethics Committee can operate formally or informally to help resolve issues arising out of this sort of behaviour by advising or assisting students. Students with a concern can speak to a committee member about it. At this point, the member can advise students on what formal steps can be taken, how long those steps will take, or possibly just provide
contacts The Ethics Committee Student Members Undergrad: Tim Blair, ext. 4042 or tblair@fes Graduate: Lanre Oriowo
c/o Fed of Students
ext. 3822 or loriowo@sciborg
Optometry
Faculty Members: Nancy Theberge, ext. 3534 or theberge @ healthy, Bill Lennox,
Ki rl&ology
ext. 6959 or wclennox@civoffice.watstar,
Staff Members: Debbie Dietrich,
ext. 2245 or ddietric@wata.rts,
Susan Sykes, ext. 6005 or ssykes@mcladm,
Civil
Eng.
Philosophy Office
of Research --_u_Ic
an alternative, informal solution. However, Nancy Theberge, Chair of the Ethics Committee said in her Imprint article, “A committee member will not be your advocate, and will only recommend an action which is in your best interest.” ?he committee also acts in a formal way to hear complaints and
make recommendation:; tr, the Vice President, Academic and Provost. If you feel you are being subject to inappropriate or harmful behaviour at the hands of another student or a faculty or staff rnsmher, contact one of the committee members. All. inquiries arts h& in the strictest confidence.
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Friday, February
Campus by Khan
NEWS
23, 1996
Question:
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If OPSEU goes on strike, should co-op students working fir the pruvincid government cross the picket lines?
W’s in their best interests to stay off the picket lines and see what happens.” Kelly Jones 2B Environmental Studies, Planning
“No, But I don’t think OPSEU should go on strike in the first place.” Gerald Cormier 4B Economics/Math
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“I just took him out,” he said by way of explanation. Striding through a thicket of fans and wearing the coolest of shades, Jean Chretien looked more like a mob kingpin or The Terminator than he did a Prime Minister last week, and the chokehold he applied only reinforced the image. But as much as his actions might’ve been afauxprrs diplomatically, it’s hard to see one’s way past the distinctively Canadian quality of it all. The real problem was that the timing and location was all wrong. Generally Canadians reserve this sort of behaviour for hockey games. You can holler all you want about the two solitudes in this country, but hockey is the language which transcends cultures and unifies us from east to west. My mentioning of this is a pretty calculated roundabout way of bringing the topic around to the Waterloo Warriors hockey team, YOUR hockey team. By the time this paper hits the streets, the Warriors will have played their first playoff game against the Windsor Lancers (here’s hoping they won). Led by team captain John Wynne, the Warriors have had a brilliant season thus far, surpassing all pre-season expectations, and giving Waterloo a big chance at provincial and (keeping my fingers crossed) national level. It would be a shame if the campus miss out on the team’s success. Two weeks ago the Warriors travelled to Fairbanks, Alaska to play in a pair of exhibition games with that university’s team. The scoresheet told a big story, specifically in the attendance figures; 3800 fans for the first game, and another 3200 for the follow-up. These are the sorts of numbers that turn supporters of the Warriors green with envy. If only . . . Granted, the Columbia Ice Fields is lucky to hold but a tenth of those numbers, but it is a little disconcerting going to Warrior hockey games at CIF and seeing the stands only a quarter or a third filled at the best of times. Let me repeat - this is a phenomenal hockey team. Windsor is no push-over, mind you. They’ve beaten the Warriors at Waterloo already once this season, and they just upset the Purple Satan in London on Tuesday, with a 5-4 double-overtime win. That aside, I’m convinced that Waterloo can take Windsor in a Best-of-three division final and advance to the OUAA Finals. Should the Windsor series go to a deciding 3rd contest, that game will be held at CIF, Monday night, February 26th (that’s this week!), at 7:3O p.m. Be there and make some noise! Should the Warriors then advance to the OWAA Final Four, that series will be played in our backyard next weekend. The event is being hosted by WLU, so the games will be played at the luxurious Waterloo Recreational Complex. If you haven’t caught a Warrior hockey game before or been to the new Ret Complex, you’ll be doing yourself a real favour by attending, I guarantee. Of course, all my blathering is putting the cart before the horse. Support the Warriors NOW against Windsor, and let’s take this thing all the way. Just make sure you’re there.
-4ave {Me?
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he budget impasse in the United States, My illustration is utterly absurd, of This looming strike is especially absurd which has forced nearly one million course, and that’s the whole point. If the considering the econolmic situation in this province. When 40,000 people apply for 400 US public servants out of work, may government did stop providing snowplow service to Ontarians, several snow plow compositions at Toyota, these civil servants are soon be echoed here in Ontario. As of Monday the 2&h, 55,000 civil panies would spring up, literally overnight, going on strike for (among other things)sixt)? servants, represented by the Ontario Public and do the job for pay, There are reasons to weeks of severance pay for those with five assume that the work performed by such a years experience. OSEUP members are truly Service Employees’ Union (OPSEU) may go on strike. Certain government employees such private business would be more efficient than lucky that they’re not looking for change in as teachers, doctors, etc. aren’t members of similar work provided by the government. bus station urinals to pa:y their rent. Instead of OPSEU, which represents (in my opinion) For starters, a private business must be reappreciating the fact tha.t they have a job. they less essential public employees such as sponsive to the people it is serving, or else go feel the need to strike. There’s nothing like snowplow drivers, meat inspectors and Minout of business. If you’re the government, the public sector. istry of Transportation employees. Co-op students at Waterloo As radically different as the should also be aware of the impending strike. The simple solution to predicaments of these civil servants 40,OOOpeople apply for 400 jobs at are, it does not seem inconceivable this problem would be to fire all the Toyota, meanwhile 55,000 OPSEU striking workers, and replace them to draw some comparisons between the two situations, and in doing so, members are threutening to strike for 60 with students,and some of the 39,600 people who won’t get j obs at come to a possible resolution of W&b of severance PuY* They ‘re lucky to Toyota who I’m sure would be more both matters. than willing td work for a fraction of One must consider, in the first have jobs and they should be thankful place, whether or not OPSEU memthe pay that the current civil servthey’re nut forced to luok for chunge in ants receive. bers. or their comDarable comrades The snowplowing example is, to the south, are ideed necessary to bus stution urinals to puy their ren1: admittedly, a small illustration of the fimctioning of their respective why we should at least consider communites. What would happen, doing away with some sewices that the govfor example, if the government stopped proyou have a virtual monopoly on such a service, and as such, can provide whatever level ernment “provides” us in favour of a private viding a snowplowing service to Ontarians? of service you damn we11 please. alternative. At the same time, I think it nicely If you asked OPSEU, well, of course, all If you call your local snowplower up, demonstrates how the provincial government of us would die next winter. Without govemment snowplows, the first blizzard would and ask him to plow your driveway, he has a has essentially legislated a monopoly on such choice: plow your driveway, or give up whatservices. We should consider the possibility force all of us inside our homes for a period of whether this analogy could be extended ever amount you were going to pay him. Try of several months, and without access to the beyond just snowplowerz and into other arthat with the city’s snowplow service. After outside world and some source of food, we eas. What other services that the government they stop laughing in your face, think about would die of starvation. Only those wise provides could be provided at a lesser cost how responsive the government is to the enough to store non-perishable items in some and with greater efficiency‘? Perhaps some, people it is supposed to be serving - that is, sort of survival shelter would survive. Likeperhaps most, perhaps none. But at the vep the people who pay their wages. This is the wise, the mail would never be delivered, least, we should investigate the possibilit>,. result when a job is done by $ZS-dollar-anambulances and fire trucks would be hour civil servants who get paid whether paralyzed and society as we know it would -SandyAtwaE you’re happy with the job or not. come to a stuttering hair untiE spring. I
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Tu the Editor, In response to your feature on masturbation, I would like to suggest some reasons why masturbation may not be so innocent a habit as the authors suggest. First, it can be an addiction that controls you and requires everincreasingly erotic and possibly dangerous stimuli to produce the same effect (a.k.a. the law of diminishing returns). Second, it is linked to pornography and fantasy. The problem with sexual fantasy is that crimes such as rape or child abuse start in the mind. Patterns of thought lead to patterns ofbehaviour. Masturbation can become an escape into an unrealistic world of sexual fantasy, especially when it involves pornography. Sexual fantasy is not the solution to “the stress of reality,” as your article suggests. Third, I believe the Creator did not intend sex for selfish pleasure alone. To quote author John White: “Its primary purpose is to end aloneness... Your sexual longings are associated with a deeper med.. _to love and be loved.” Sex is meant to be shared between two people, and also for procreation. Therefore, solo sex will never be ultimately satisfying. “Masturbation is to be alone on an island. It fnlstrates the very instinct it gratifies (John White).” Your article states: “No one teaches children to masturbate. It is instictive behaviour. This... is therefore normal and should be accepted.” This is a poor argument. No one teaches children to lie or steal either. All selfish behaviour is natural. Unselfishness must be taught. On the other hand, I believe some level of sexual exploration is necessary in normal childhood development, but this is not the same, nor does it justify the addictive habits of adults. Finally, as the article states, we can make choices about our sexual behaviour. Sexual urges are never completely uncontrollable, and we don’t NEED sex to survive. I think we should be more responsible about what we do in private, because everything we think affects who we are and what we do, and our behaviour affects other people. I would recommend the book Eros Defiled by John White, from which I have been quoting. If you wish to discuss this firther with me personally, e-mail wreimer@ophelia. waterloo.net.
ing our beloved student newspaper Imprint, some things about it bothered me a little. The record reviews seemed to be against mainstream music, the sports coverage lacked a little, but generally no big deal. I figured it was part of the university experience; it was a time when I would be exposed to a cross-section ofviews and interests. I thought it was no big deal until this past year. The Imprint this year has crossed the line of objective journalism and sunk to a new low. I really don’t know where to begin. The religious arguments that have dominated the paper for the past few months have been interesting. Like I said earlier, if someone has a view, then I think that they should be allowed to express it. However, if someone criticizes this view or is offended, is it the Imprint’s place to make fun of that individual for his/her views? I really don’t think so. More than any other year, this paper has taken sides in so many issues, misleading the university community that what Imprint prints is the norm. You represent all of us students, not just a minority. Maybe you should start reflecting that in your so-called reporting. However, I don’t think I have ever seen more biased writing in a paper than I did during the election campaign. I was left wondering why you didn’t just write “Vote for Mario” on the front cover. I am not trying to discredit Mario, I think he will do a good job next year, congratulations on your victory. What I can’t understand is how being an engineer or a don in the village makes you a better person? I don’t really care if you state that you were only trying to reflect past trends, that is not the point. The Imprint, by printing thePrm-O-M&c, led a lot of people to think that the crite-
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ria set were legitimate characteristics. I guess being a don at any of the college residences doesn’t quite match up to the villages. Only in the world of the Imprint. So I guess congratulations are in order to the staff of the Imprint. It was obvious who you wanted to win, and they did. You did a great job, you should be proud. The only loss I guess is the fact that I no longer see the Imprint as legitimate. I can just imagine the Campus Question, “Do you think the Prez-O-Mutic influenced your vote?” I am going to go out on a limb and say that all eight people will say no, and some will even defend the paper from us whiners. Well, the thing is, I won’t believe it. How do I know that you won’t just print the ones you want? I think it is a pretty sad case when you lose the faith of your readers. I know that this letter will probably be mocked, not necessarily in print; so be it. Just know that in the process you are alienating more and more of your readers every day. -Andrew AfcKenrra 4th year Political Science (Editors ’ note: Six brief points1: The Prez-O-Matic was not initiated this year, it’s a tradition. Yuu say it isn ‘t objective; on the contruly, the basis of your cornplaint seems to be with its objectivity. Our personal feelings can ‘t infruence it; it is cold, it is clinical, it is heartless. 1n case you missed the accompanying text, the Prez-UMatic is meant to hefun and came with a warning that it is “not intended to seme as a guidefor determining the most qualiJied candidates, “and “isnutintendedtoserve as a replacement for reading the rest of the election coverage. ” It wasn ‘t the sole piece of infurma-
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tionpresented, but came at the conclusiun of 1 dpages of electr’on coverage. The writers, readers and voters deserve a little more credit. 2: As per our bias tuwurd candidates; Unlike previous years, and unlike major daily newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star, we did nut come out and endurse nny candidates. 3: As per our bias towards Mario Bellubarba; For the recurd, prior to the election campaign Idid not know him, nor my of the other candidates. No disrespect to the other candidates, but Bellaburba ‘s performances in the election forums and his experience in campus politics were impeccable and, I believe, the prime motivating fuctors fur the electorate voting fur him. 4: Bellabarba isn ‘t a village don. 5: We did put Mario on the cover... ufter he won the election. 6: You say that Imprint represents all the students, nut just a minor@. In theory you are correct, but in practice you are mistaken. Just as the new Federation of Students executive represents the UW student body with u measly 15% voting minority (Bellabarba ‘s 816 votes represent 6% of all eligible voters), Imprint is merely the sum of its parts. In other words, Imprint is comprised by all UW students who care enough to contribute, and in that respect it does represent all students. )
Lynch is unaware To the Editor, I am writing this letter in response to David Lynch’s book review of A Moment on the Earth:
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Objective journalism? To the Editor, When I first came to the University ofWaterloo and started read-
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The Coming Age of En vironmentul Optimism by Gregg Easterbrook, Viking Penguin which was published in the IImprint, Vol. 18. No. 25. In his review which he entitles The Earth is OK!, Lynch supports Easterbrook’s; anti-environmental claims. It should be noted that these claims are plainly wrong, dangerous and misleading. There are points in Lynch’s review which support and reinforce, for example, antienvironmental rationality, environmentalist prqjudice and environmental stereotypes. Anti-environmental rationality is the tendency for anti-environmentalists to create an image of ‘truth’ within their socalled objective statements. Antienvironmentalism is said to contain reasoned, bakanced and sound approaches to environmental issues. By contrast, environmentalists are to be seen as being emotional, hysterical and biased lunatics who disseminate unscientific, sensational propaganda. Environmentalist prejudice is a jFeeling (usually negative) towards environmentalists prior to or not based on actual experience. Environmentalist stereotypes allow for the forming of opinions andjudgements about environmentalists that create an exaggerated and atypical view of their lives.
Perhaps Lynch is unaware of the politics of anti-environmentalism. A politics which has seen the spread of blatant anti-environmentalism by individuals who have a vested interest in the exploitation of nature and humanity. For years proponents of neoclassical economic growth and development have generally adopted an adversarial position towards environmentalists. This position still exists today buut is expressed using much more explicit information that questions environmentalism and sustainability efforts. A counter revolution is .being mounted by researchers, loibbyists and opinionmakers who have been challenging the credo of environmental threats central to contemporary public discussion. There are now formal antienvironmental groups in North America which specialize in greenwashing and environmentalist-bashing, and that rally under the banner of expansionism, unregulated free-emterprise and libertarianism. A number ofthese organisations are pro(ducing pseudo-scientific propaganda. In addition, there are pseudo-scholarly anti-environmentalists who are using their ’ academic’ credentials as a form of authority upon which they can make anti-environmental claims. Ultimately, regardless of their form, anti-environmentalists and their respective groups are becoming increasing sophisticated, and are even using some of the very tactics and strategies employed in the environmental movement to further their cause. .A11 in all, I hope that Lynch’s article does not represent a move on the pati of Imprint to join this counter-movement against sustainability and environmental protection. -Tim Boston Graduate, E’nviruarmen
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At the risk of becoming predictable, I’m going to deal with provincial issues again. I - don’t do university issues because that’s another columnist’s gig, I generally avoid municipal issues because I find them much too mundane, and all that has happened at the federal level lately is that Bouchard and Trudeau have trad?d pot shots and Cbretien declared “National Flag Day.” Not much to work with, I’m sure you’ll agree. Unfortunately, I’m writing this before I head off to my parents’ place for a week of someone else doing my laundry (Ma Russell) and someone else buying my beer (Pa Russell), so if some important event has occurred in the meantime, sony. I’ll get to it next week. Anyway, perhaps it is misleading to say I am going to deal with provincial issues. It might be more accurate to say I am going to deal with someone who has been dealing with provincial issues. Vilko Zbogar has recently had three articles in Imprint, all of them slagging Mike Harris to some degree or another. Now, those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, so I am not going to opine about whether calling Harris “a true multi-faceted moron” or saying that “Mikey has proven that he is an idiot” is good journalism or not, because I occasionally treat people OT ideas I don’t like a little harshly myself. I’m also not going to quibble about such wonderfully melodramatic rhetoric as calling the PC government “purveyors of cruelty and injustice” or a “gang of evil-doers.” And i will absolutely avoid mentioning angst-ridden comments such as “stand in line and get ready to get kicked in the head, or, for extra fun, watch everyone around you get whipped to death,” However, what I am going to talk -about is some of the arguments Zbogar presented in his three pieces. On January 26, Zbogar announced that “less than $5 billion of the $8 billion being cut will go towards cutting the deficit. Instead, this money will go towards subsidizing the rich.” So, more than $5 billion is going to subsidize the rich. That is a hell of a lot of money. Where exactly might it be going? Zbogar doesn’t seem to know. All he comes up with is one Linda McQuaig, “author and journalist,” who has estimated that not quite $500,000 is going into the pockets of the chairman of the big 5 banks. Maybe so, but there still seems to be the matter of $4,999,500,000 unaccounted for. Zbogar also cites another journalist who had a Harris aide and an “economic guru” explain to him that the proposed tax cuts are not going to create 725,000 jobs over the next five years; these jobs are going to appear in the normal course of things. Zbogar then says “don’t hold your breath waiting for these wonderful jobs to magically appear,” discrediting his own source! Who is right, zbogar? The official party line which says that tax cuts will create the jobs, or the dissenters who say the jobs will appear anyway? Either way it seems the jobs are going
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to appear. In his next article, on February 2, Zbogar changed his mind. He seems to acknowledge that the cutsare going to decrease the deficit, but now argues against them because “the ignorant slash and bum policy being employed by the government is increasing the other two deficits.” These other deficits are the “social” and “environmental” deficits. Zbogar also suggests the moronic plan of having land developers pay for all costs of anything they build, including roads, sewers, and ongoing costs like policing, snow ploughing and garbage pick-up. If this is done, it would stop the mass-Iproduction of “shitboxes all over our dwindling countryside.” I guess the people who actually buy the developed land shouldn’t have to pay anything. Sure, they may be the ones who use the roads, sewers, police, etc., but they shouldn’t have to pay. Besides, severel:y limiting the amount of housing being built by making it economically unfeasible can only be a good thing, right? Housing prices will increase and poorer people will stand even less chance of ever owning their own homes. They can just continue to dump their limited incomes into rent, instead of making an investment that will eventually leave them with a home to call their own. Finally, last week Zbogar comes down on “the wealthy and the greedy.” He quotes from the April 1994 issue of Canadian Forum that asks such penetrating questions as “Is greed generational?” Evidently, “generational” is a synonym for an inherited trait, because the article also asks “Would the wealthy have more self-esteem if they worked for their money rather than inherited it?” Personally, I would be interested in seeing stats on exactly whlat qualifies someone as wealthy and how it is determined that their wealth comes exclusively from inheritance and not from work. I know a few wealthy people, and they all work pretty damn hard. He blames the debt not on “social spending” but on “the failure of the wealthy and greedy to pay their fair share.” He says that the cuts should not befall “those who have already been victimised by the greed and selfishness of others.” Lets make this clear. Some people have money, and some don’t. The ones who have it presumably want to keep it, and the ones who don’t have it want it! So who is more greedy? And how have the wealthy victimised the rest? By owning the factories where the rest are employed? By buying the products that the rest produce? By paying more in taxes than everyone else, both in actual dollars and as a percentage of their income? Zbogar sounds like your run-of-the-mill Marxist, bitching about the oppression of the poor by the rich, but not really having either the background in economic theory or enough information to really present intelligent solutions. And while his repeated efforts to get his messages out are laudable, I’d view his rantings with a bit of a critical eye.
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Canadians really need to get their heads checked. The idea of the leader of our country using selfdefence is beyond some Canadians’ pea-sized brains as the waves of criticisms attack the PM for using “violence” and “brutality” (their words, not mine.) Last week in Hull, Cretien put a good choke hold on one Bill Clennet as he got himself a tad too close for comfort to our PM. Bill Clennet shouldn’t be surprised by his treatment as he’s quite notorious for being an in-yer-face protestor that specializes in attracting attention. It just seems that the guy has gotten what he’s deserved for quite some time. And besides, Clennet could only fantasize about the insuing media frenzy over the event. I laugh, though, when I see his picture with that “I’m all shook up” traumatic expression that hit the newspapers. And all because of what took approximately four seconds, peopie think the PM should resign. Resign’?!? It’s really quite beyond me the way Canadians construe good leadership; insignificant incidents like Cretien protecting himself against what he thought was a threat. Why shouldn’t Cretien react? He’s the friggin’ leader of one of the wealthiest countries in the world, which is also putting a lot of people
out of work with its financial restraints. He’s a tad more susceptible for open attacks thati the average Canadian, and considering the break-in at 24 Sussex Drive a coupie of months back, you can understand his over-reaction. But oh no, we’re peace-loving Canadians that can’t have a leader going around beating people up. The K-w Record’s editorial [Feb 171 tried to gussy up the incident like it was the main event at a wrestling match with Big Jean Stud against halfpint Clennet. This incident is so
done. There will always be the radical Bill Clennets around that will take a few punches for their cause, but let’s not lose sight of the good leadership that we have. There are some difficult decisions to make in the upcoming months regarding Quebec, Native Rights, Canada’s Constitution, a nasty deficit, employment,andtrade. Thesearemore important than bogging down publit opinion and raising uncertainty in the abilities of our PM. To get distracted about this event, which will undoubtedly be passe by the time this column goes to print, is an exercise in getting ourselves worked up about nothing. Canadians do that well, with no help from the media
It’s really quite beyond me the way Canadians construe good leadership... small, so unnewsworthy, and so overblown that you have editorials questioning the ability of the PM on the basis of one lobbyistiprotestor who just hasn’t learned his manners. Jean Cretien is a good leader. Although I couldn’t sit here and rhyme off what he’s accomplished thus far, I can honestly tell you that I trust him, and know that he has Canada’s best interests in mind. I don’t think I’m alone with that general feeling, which stands for a heck of a lot in politics. We also know that he is capable, that he is knowledgeable, that he can get the job
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such” as I was told by security. However, this was the closest parking lot and he had several articles to bring in to me. E believe my Dad was in Village for a whole 30 minutes before we returned to the car to go uut for dinner. Upon returning to the car we found a parking ticket for $25 ($15 if paid within 10 days). A couple of days later I went to security to pay the ticket and politely explained the situation to them. To say the least, I was treated rudely and with no respect. I was told how obvious it was that lot K is a staff parking lot and that if my father wants to come and see me he must go to security first, purchase a parking decal, an then park in the visitors parking lot which is down by Village 2. ARer being made to feel like I was two inches tall the ticket was downgraded to a warning. Is secety aware that people have parents or grandparents who would like to come in and see them but can’t because they are unable to make the hike from the visitors park-
great tactic. Some people blame Cretien, some people blame the RCMP, some people blame Clennet. The ultimate resolution, that makes me puke just thinking about it, is that all three parties will accept responsibility. However, Cretien should stick to his guns, not apologize, and continue as always doing whatever it is that PM’s do, and the public should do the same. If I ever read an article discussing the growing use of violence and brutality in society, and it mentions this incident, I will at least be soothed to know that it can’t be as bad a problem as what the media would like us to believe.
ing lot? Not only that but I thought security was supposed to do everything they could to make the campus more secure for students, and yet the other night as I waited outside alone at the end of the locked gates to the East cul-de-sac for a taxi, I failed to believe that this was the case. If some people were using the cul-de-sac as a default parking lot then the lot should be monitored more closely but not closed off completely! By doing so the University is alienating parents and residents. This is really not a very intelligent move considering these are the peaple who pay the bills. I’m sure that the $200 that my parents will not be donating this year will not have a significant effect on the University. However, I would think that given the considerable reductions in tiding that are going to hit higher education over the next two years the University would be gratehi for any financial assistance! -Juunne
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Financial Assistance? Not this vear! very year a student working as a canvasser for the university calls my parents and politely explains to them how much UW is in need of their financial support, especially in the current times of fiscal ConstraintThis student then proceeds to ask that they donate x amount of dollars to this worthy cause. For four consecutive years now, my parents have willingly contributed $200. This year however, they will not be contributing anything! A couple of weeks ago I was feeling particulary stressed out so my Dad decided he would make a trip to Waterloo to visit me, bring me some stuff from home, and just lend some moral support. I am a resident of Village 1 this term and when my father arrived he attempted to find a place to park. He could not gain access to the East cul-de-sac as it is permanently locked off. Parking lot J was full so he parked in lot K (which was pretty much empty). This, as we learnt the hard way, is a staff parking lot and “is marked as
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‘y reply to Wayne Prior’s letter of last week will -againattempt to deal with these vast subjects in an all too brief way. At the outset, let me repeat that the central question concerned the rational plausibility ofthe existence of God. The arguments were based on logical, evidential, experimental, and experiential forms of knowing; these relate to determining whether a belief is rationally justifiable or not. If a particular belief is to be considered valid (or hopefully true), it should pass at least those four criteria with great success; should it fare miserably
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cept (a bad “meme”), Pantheism has to top the list. No sense exists if true and false or good and evil are equivalents. But people believe all manner of strange and damaging ideas, as Mr. Prior notes. Since Mr. Prior seems to not understand what I said, he ought to try a little harder before commenting wrongly or else simply restating the arguments. So again with more emphasis, if people act flagrantly and repeatedly in a manner which contradicts their professed beliefs, discount their claims and reckon their more basic beliefs in what they do. Jesus said, “By their
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for a particular belief may be false and the conclusion still true, this state of ignorance or error should not remain. For the plausibility of any conclusion or claim, it is reasonable to expect true, factual premises. Rather than detracting from the thesis of intelligence, Wayne t’rior’s two initial points support it. Firstly, despite the extensive, intricate, and volatile features of our social and economic systems, they are decidedly not void of human activity involving degrees of intelligence (mixed with emotions and folly, and natural unpredictability). While sociologists and economists are not able to give precise formulae to account for all behaviour, this does not mean that our understanding has not advanced. We are leaming that the systems are not simple. Secondly, Prior’s example of the self-learning robot clearly illustrates the prerequisites of intelligence and knowiedge. Without the tremendous advances in science and technology, we could not have constructed such clever devices. Our ingenuity in technological development is evolutionary, based on a progressively better grasp of reality and the way nature operates. And yet I have a hard enough time teaching my “neural-net” to keep my bank account balanced let alone figuring out the algorithms to make a mechanical bug teach its neuralcomputer to walk. I have the sneaky suspicion that a lot of very smart people have learned how to implement a thing or two. Instead of inverting the fact that much intellectual effort has gone into the making of most artifacts, we could all profitably learn how such things can exist at all. Ask these little buggers who made them, if you do not know. (Somebody made them.) As for Pantheism, if a good critique is not available in the library, I am quite sure that Prof. Narveson (or someone else in the philosophy department) would be most happy to demolish any claims for its ability to yield a viable ethics, rationality, or aesthetics. If anything is a lousy, nonsensical con-
you shall know them”. The question of good and evil can be delved into from two competing perspectives, the evolutionary and the creationistic. Since we humans inhabit the same eco-systern as the rest of animate and inanimate things forming an interdependent complex, an immense number of features must be held in common, f-roLm elementary matter to biological substances. Yet, while these unified aspects of nature are manifestly obvious, most entities also exhibit individual uniqueness. Cosmic and macro-evolutionary theory is one attempt to explain both the unity and the differences; creationism is another. Despite the complex levels of physical existence within this unified cosmos, we humans exhibit striking characteristics, distinguishing us from the rest of nature. Artistic, intellectual, altruistic, andmany technological achievements are unquestionably far beyond the abilities of the other known life-forms, although they can accomplish other marvels. But what they do are mostly pre-programmed patterns. Some of the higher animals can learn a little too. What we accomplish is partly learned, conscious, and intended to far greater degrees. However, our destructiveness of all sorts, by largely conscious effort, exceeds all norms in nature. While rabid animals or wild dogs in a hen house go on rampages, these behaviours are rare. Whatever “negative” behaviours other life-forms exhibit are generally connected with survival: food supply, self-preservation, defense. of territory, and sexual competition. And except for prey, death seldom follows conflicts of interest. Further, death is usually swift,
whether stunned or anaesthetized, so that the victim does not suffer excessive pain. But with all our intellectual abilities, we can show far less rationality than the most mindless parasite. Parasites, somehow, have worked out their success only as far as to feed off their hosts without totally killing everything else off. If there was any behaviour so suc-
cessful as to destroy every other competitor, the survivor would have won more than a mere pyrrhic victory - this would have been mutually assured destruction! Fortunately for some reason, natural systems on earth are generally able to restore an equilibrium. No entity, parasite, or virus is so vicious as to obliterate everything and consequently commit suicide - except for one potential candidate. Further, the cruelty, viciousness, and monstrous depths of human wickedness, against its own kind especialIy, defies comparison. No precedence can adequately explain such conscious evil. Relating natural life to human extremes is incommensurable. Perhaps Mr. Prior has lived a very shelteredl life. But 1 am sorry, 1 cannot acce:pt such vileness by humans, who are otherwise rational and intelligent, as anything less than demonic too. Insanity fails to cxplain it. To call it an cvolutinnary extension of nature is in~:onsistcnt with the “sensible” chmtctcr of the rest oflivingthings. Most adults arc responsible for their behaviour; grotesque evil is far beyond nature’s patterns. And, some of the worst horrors of existence are inflicted by humans upon their fellows (disease notwithstanding). The victims deserve our pity and help, and not the conscienceless criminals whoever they are, who must be dealt with and not ignored. (So too, we oppose disease, searching for cures to these other evils in this presently damaged world.) And to fix anything, requires knowing what is good and right from what is inadequate and wrong. The more we learn of the actual universe,, the clearer the evidence becomes, pointing either to atheism or a Creator. Creationism has no difficulty with micro-evolution (e.g. within genus’s). The problem lies in tlhe excessive claims, beyond the facts, for total evolution, which requires the unbelievable miracle that everything can come out of nothing. Most aspects of this theory are fraught with enormous improbabilities. Combined, these minuscule fractions reduce the likelihood of existence infinitesimally. From the start, the incredible fine-tuning of energy, timing, types, transformations, relations, charges, masses, et al for this universe dety inadequate causes. Rather, a sufficient Cause and Organizer all tlhe way along makes lots of sense. Science is about asking the right questions and not settling for partial answers amd not ever quitting to ask. Even babies know the secret of hollering until they get satisfying solutions. Why settle for non-answers? Look for the real thing.
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Innocent AR Ramblin’at‘f?aspLltinS I’m writing this from Ottawa, and through some strange quirks of fate, I realized that President-elect Mario Bellabarba will need a fair amount of @ood) luck to meet some of his more prominent campaign 0(Joals. It is quite possible, nevertheless, that some collective bad luck will also accomplish his goals. If it happens via bad luck, however, we may all wish it hadn’t. The promise I’m referring to is increasing student representation. It doesn’t make sense yet, does it? It shouldn’t. It’s pretty complicated. J was at a wee bar in Ottawa last night called Rasp&in’s While J was there, J was engaged in conversation with an undergraduate rcprescntative on the University of Guclph’s Senate. Some of the more common complai~~ts about (and from) our student Senators were quite rorcign to him. Waterloo has too few students on Senate -. not a problem at Gu+h, wh(:rc: almost thirty studclnts comprise almost one-sixth of
library holdings, to budget issues, there are just to many areas which require expertise. Which brings us back to Mario. Mario wants to increase student representation. When he talks about committees, and getting students on bodies such as Tenure and Promotion Committees, well, then we’re talking about politics; the art ofthe possible. When he talks about Executive Council, I wish himluck. Somehow J doubt that the powers that be will be wanting to let students on to this particular body: after ail, it actually does something. Rut if we’re talking about Senate and the Board of Governors, then we’re talking about a whole ‘nother ball of wax. You see, to change the senior governing bodies oftheuniversity,wecan’tjustagree on it ourselves; we’d have to open a little document called something like “the University of Waterloo Act.” Universities don’tjust pop up in communities. To grant degrees, they require enabling legislation from the provincial government.
The numbers that students have at Guel’jdk makes things easier the body. Waterloo Senators have trouble (through no fault of their own) making their voice heard ef‘fectively, while the Guelph Senator I spoke to at Guelph laughed at how easy he found it. Granted, the numbers that students have at Guelph makes things easier. For example, the “specializations” adopted by my conversation-mate were limited to “experiential learning” (Co-op) and “international programs” (exchanges). Having been on work terms already, and having been on exchange, his experience gives him a voice not because he’s a student, but because he can cite the facts. He possesses the ability to correct bureaucrats’ assumptions about how things work, having been through both systems. When I asked about other areas, he laughed, and feigned more ignorance than merited, claiming that he was only a “farmer, an aggie.” More credible, however, were his later explanations that other students specialized in those areas, so while he listened a great deal, he had no need to speak out. Of course, with the numbers that students hold on their Senate, students at Guelph can afford to specialize in individual areas. At Waterloo - where undergraduate representation doesn’t register in the double-digits at Senate, and is barely double-anything at the Board ofGovernors level - itjust doesn’t work that way. From tuition, to
That legislation defines the composition and powers of the senior governing bodies. No problem, you’re thinking. So go to our MLA Elizabeth Witrner, and ask her sponsor a bill to amend the act. No problem with that, in so far as it goes. The problem is, students try to get their changes in, faculty try to get their changes in, and staff try to get their changes in. Worst of all, we give Mike Harris and his band of change-mongers a chance to get their changes in. We’ve heard that Minister of Education Snobelen wanted to manufacture a crisis in education. We’ve also heard candidate Harris say some of the stupidest things about tenure that any politician has ever said - including all the other ones whose main qualification was their score on the links. Somehow, opening the Act up with those ne’erdo-wells in office is a bit scarier than leaving students under-represented. If we’re lucky, and Mario’s as adept as he soundedduring the campaign, we’ll see more student representation, and representation of a higher quality. If we’re not, we’ll see more student representation ~ we just won’t like the package it came in. But then, the question we must ask is, how much would we ever do if we were worried about the worstcase scenario?
nyone who picked up last Saturday’s issue of the K W ecord likely noticed the grotesque apparition of a guinea pig saris hair, delicately supported by its creator, or God if you will, Frank Henke. As a scientifically ignorant being, I can only assume that Her&e’s creation ultimately defeats the purposes of genetic engineering. The Record reports that the hairless “skinny pigs,” as they are referred to, are a result of”selective breeding.” This “selective” process was really the breeding of a male guinea pig with its mother and sister. These “conversation pieces” sell for five times more than their regular hair-riddled relatives and require more water to prevent their skin from drying out. This is not Henke’s first mdeavour into genetic experimentation. He has also developed beef cows that alwaysgive birth to twins. This is practical, I would assume. Twice the cattle, twice the beef produced. What does Henke hope
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Hobbies projects for tht: God of mutilation. I) Breed cats with their relatives (to make them really ugly) and then breed that hybrid with a sloth (so the often active and fastidious felines will just lie there and be gawked at). 2) Breed long-haired dogs with cash crops like cotton. Whenever you brush them, it’s like a mini harvest. 3) Breed tialking birds with accountants. That way, instead of hearing “Pretty bird” or “Polly want a crack&’ all day, you could have your taxes donlc with nothing to pay but the purcha.se price of the bird. Chicken feed, as they say. I hope the subtlety of my sarcasm has not gone unnoticed. Moreover, I hope that if anybody shares my disgust with Frank Hcnke’s “skinny pig” project, that they will look into it more thoroughly and see what really goes on at the High Oak Ranch in Baden, Ontario.
to gain by scientifically shaving guinea pigs ? The article quotes Her&e’s information flyer, as I will do here, as saying that these pigs will “revolutionize many fields of research” including skin cancer. Cancer! Attention animal rights activists. Here is a man who is breeding animals specifically for scientific testing. Hello, Mr. Her&e. These mutant pigs that you have degenerated through incest are still living creatures. They’re not the next “pet rock[s]” as you refer to them. I am by no means an animal rights person. That is, 1 don’t know all the particulars about the effects that scientific fiddling has on animals. At the same time though, I can’t help but think that Her&e has no respect for his creations, and is motivated solely by the amount of money he stands to make at the expense of these once-hairy pets. If I am wrong to question the actions of Mr. Henke, then I most sincerely apologize, and to show my repentance, I offer future
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several notches below that of’ the Nemerov’s. As an 18 year old bride, Diane put her artistic aspirations on hold as she willingly threw herself into a role as a housewife. The early years of her marriage were lean ones, how-
ever, as her parents refused to support the newlyweds. During World War II, Allan was drafted into the services and landed a posting as a photographer. Upon returning to America after the war, Allan continued photographing and taught Diane everything he knew. The mid-40’s to late 50’s were times of great prosperity, and advertising was a huge commodity. Hut since television had yet to make a mass impact, advertsing doliars were dominated by still photography, so Diane and Allan were able to secure a ton of work as fashion photographers. The pair became extremely successful, starting out by doing shoots for Russek’s, then using connections to get assignments for many of the big New York fashion magazines like Vogue, Hurpers Bazaar, and even Seventeen. Despite their success, Diane found the assignments increasingly boring and devoid of life or imagination. Gradually, her visual inclination began to move in the direction of photographers like Robert Frank and Louis Faurer, both of whom employed small 35mm L&a’s to catch a “snapshot aesthetic” of reality. Their shots were characterized by rugged contrast, high grain, severe cropping, and even blur and weak focus. Frank’s photographs were particularly scandalous, for he completely turned on its ear the aesthetic of beauty and perfect photographic technique. His prints possessed life and mystery. Soon after, Diane gravitated to the work of Lisette Model, a woman whose own aristocratic upbringing closely paralleled hers. More significantly, Model’s work catalogued the grotesque. Some accused her style of being intrusive and exploitative, just as people would later say of Arbus’ own work, but she became Diane’s mentor. By this time Diane had completely abandoned fashion photography and her marriage slowly dissolved. Much of this was imparted by Diane’s increasingly severe bouts with
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suffered from depression and meIancholy, some say it was genetic, but throughout the 60’s her condition became terminal. Obsessed by hercamera, Diane took Model’s approach by the throat and began to photograph the grotesque. Terror aroused her, and she
began to discover that she could conquer fear, develop courage, and overcome her lifelong shyness by photographing people on the fringe. Some of her most famous photographs - the giants, the midgets.. the transsexuals, and the kid in central park with the toy handgrenade - were creatccl with thi+& approach, and gave viewers the impressIon that the portraits wcrc’: self-reflexive glimpses of Arbus hers&: distant, but personal.
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y 1969, Diane Arbus was an international sensation, with protiles in Time and Newsweek and well-attended gallery showings. But for all her fame, Diane was still continually fighting her battles against depression and was becoming dissatisfied with the self-conscious nature of the subjects she was photographing. She then em-barked on a project to photograph mentally retarded patients. Biographer Patricia Bosworth explains: “Diane had always longed to scrutinize the perverse, the alienated, the extreme - ever since her mother forbade her to start: at their nutty relative, the relative who smeared lipstick so violently over her mouth and made noises at Russek’s. Diane had always dreamed of capturing the panic and loneliness in that woman’s owlish eyes.” Arbus was particularly enthralled by the patients extreme innocence and their total lack of self-consciousness. Her work took three years, right up until the time of her death, and it’s these prints that comprise U&r& many of them published for the first time. Many of the photographs Arbus shot at Halloween, with the patients wearing masks and dressed up in costume. The beautifully reproduced duotones are haunting. In fact, the photos are at times so disturbing, that some believe Arbus’ motivation was exploitative. On the contrary, her perspective never m,anipulates. The photos are taken at straight angles, with normal lenses, compositionally sound and even. Like much of Arbus’ morle famous photos, the mood is again sombre and remote, and yet strangely warm and enticing, but ultimately they are honest. The project concluded, perhaps prematurely. Diane Arbus was found dead in her bathtub on July 27, 1971, after slashing her wrists. She was 42 years old.
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A Team. The women’sclassic relay once again saw domination by Lakehead consisting of defending OWIAA Champ Lana Puumala, former National Team skier Lisa Patterson, and Brook Latimer. However, the Waterloo women’s team of Maier, Mihailovic, and Joanne Murray kept it together to finish an awesome seventh place, an improvement from last year’s eighth place relay finish. Sunday saw more medals for IJW. Daniels was on fire, pounding away at the brutal hills of the aptly named Big Thunder. His hard work paid off with a bronze medal at a time of 4454.4, two minutes, fifty-one seconds off of repeat gold medalist Wayne Dustin. Climie was not far off Daniels’ heels at fifth place, less than a second out of fourth, followed by a phenomenal eighth place finish for Brent Curry and fifteenth place for Frenette. Norm @Reilly skied well for thirtysixth position as well as Schneider at forty-seventh. Of course, they could not have done so well without the help of forerunner Scott curry. Athena’s Alison Lampi detided Sunday was the time to give ‘er so she did, placing an amazing twenty-first at a time of 43:27.4. The attitude must have been infectious as Joanne Murray showed us what she could really do by placing twenty-fourth, less than a minute behind Lampi. Mihailovic was not far behind in twenty-seventh, Maier in thirty-fourth with Julie Murray right behind in thirty-fifth, and Sonosky in forty-third. When asked what the War-riors would like to be highlighted they replied that their first place team standing for Sunday’s free
technique was very important to them. Other tremendous accomplishments include three OUAA All-Star titles for Climie, Daniels, and Curry. Both Daniels and Climie have All-Star titles under their belts from last year’s championships at Ottawa’s Camp Fortune but this was Curry’s, first such achievement; way to go Brent! Congratulations also go to Norm O’Reilly’s first OUAA Championship after two years of being oh-so-close to making the tea.m. The competition’s results were the closest Waterloo has come to the strong Lakehead team which captured the Championship for the second year in a row. Coach Don McKinnon had only good things to say about the Athena’s performance at Thunder Bay. McK.innon commented that the women’s team showed great improvement from last year stemming from, hard work and great team-togetherness although the “official” results may not have reflected this. He pointed out Maier’s example of rising to the challenge of competition after an injury setback. I would like to point out that the excellent coaching both the women’s and men’s team has received over the last two years from McKinnon definetly had something to do with the teams’ growth. The Athena’s overaIl OWIAA sixth place finish mirrored last year’s performance in standings only as this year’s champs, Lakehead, consisted of some incredibly strong and talented women. McKinnon was assured that the Athenas have nowhere to go but up. In the words of Brad “Gump” Frenette, “...if I was goin’ anywhere from now on, I was SKI-IN’!”
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long the wall of the Warriors dressing room hangs a sign that reads: “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice.” The sign is nothing flashy or fancy, it is a simple piece of cardboard that was taped to the wall by assistant head coach Dave Cressman earlier this year in hopes of inspiring the troops. But, instead of just reading the sign, the Warriors have taken his message to heart. They have made all the right choices the past couple of months and are on their way to a championship. The only team in Waterloo Warrior hockey history to reach the 40 plus points mark in one season (2 l-5), this year’s squad also scored the second most points in the OUAA and are ranked third in the CIAU’s top Ten. (They had been ranked second but for some ludicrous reason the CIAU bosses have decided that after two convincing wins over their chief division rivals Western and Windsor, the Warriors should bc dropped to third behind Acadia.) Add to this mix three OUAA All-Stars in John Wynne, Mark Cardlff and Mike Chambers, and three nominees for the League’s top awards (Wynntr for MVP, Chambers for academic excellence, and Peter Brenrley fix Rookie of the Year) and you have one of the
best teams this university has had in recent years. “We’re so close to going where we want to go,” says captain John Wynne. “We’re three wins away from going to the nationals. We couldn’t ask for a better shot at it. Wit-h home ice advantage for the playoffs and a sudden death game in the University cup in our home town, everything is in our favour. We just have to accomplish that and make that dream come true.” The dream may have seemed unrealistic at the beginning of the season but now, a chance for a national championship is a reality for the Warriors. Standing in their way are the Windsor Lancers, who stunned Western 5-4 in double over-time in London on Tuesday night in a onegame play-off. The showdown is a 2-of-3 contest with Waterloo holding home advantage. “We’re no fiuther than we were last year,” says Mike Chambers of the 1994 squad that was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs after a dramatic triple overtime win over Laurier. “ But, this year, we have a real positive out-look. We know that there is no reason why we shouldn’t win our first round here and then win one game and make it to the natinnals.”
The Warriors will take their first step towards a national title on Thursday night (no results at press time) and hope to wrap the best of
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has so far this year; working hard and working tog,ether. There are no superstars on this team, no one can carry the team b:y themselves. Individually, this team will fail; together, no one can stop them. Secondly, the Warriors need the support of the university community . No excuses are acceptable. This team has proven their success: they have lost only two games since November. Making it to a National Championship is a once in a life time opportunity. Don’t miss out. Lastly, the Warriors need the support of the band. All season long Head Coach Don McKee and his players have encouraged the band to show up for the hockey games with little luck. This squad is THREE wins away from a National Championship appearance; they deserve the support. “It would be nice to have the band come out,” says Chris Kraemer who has been one of the most vocal about this point all year. “I remembter four years ago when someone rnade a big hit, they would hit the drum and that got the crowd going. It always made it really loud and that’s what we need. When we played Laurier that year, it was just crazy in thcrc. Hopefully wr: will see those guys this year!!” So, like thr: simple sign that has inspired them to this point in the season, the ‘Warriors will continue making the right ~‘i~+!ces in hopes of bringing home ;i F&ttinn~l Championship: their destiny.
Jeff Miller: Pole vaulter extraordinaire by Jeff
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Krykorka, a Czechoslovakian defector from the old eastern European sports machine who now coaches many of Canada’s top fIite pole vaulters, is his pole vault coach. Jeff has had help from Waterloo coaches as well. Sprints coach Brent McFarlane has been working with Jeff on the all-important speed component, while jumping coach Gary Wilson and the entire jumping group have helped him improve his jumping ability. Their work is paying off. Jeff s abilities are known in international circles. He was a member of Canada’s pole vault team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, finishing ninth among the best that the Commonwealth has to offer. “It was my personal thrill of a lifetime. I jumped my personal best, 5.2 [metres]. What was kind of exciting was that I wasn’t that far off from the winning height of 5.4 metres. I was going in there just thrilled to be there, and 1 ended up actually being competitive.” Jeff isn’t finished yet either. He is only 23 and is still not in his prime. The optimum age for a pole vaulter is around 29, so chances are good that Jeff could represent Canada at the Olympics as early as the year 2000. One thing that a pole vaulter cannot have is fear. Rising that high, supported only by a pole, there is no
room for a fear of heights or doubts about your pole.. “Yeah, they break [the poles]. The first time it happened, it shocked the hell out ofme. It makes a sound like a gun going off. When a pole breaks, if you’re using good technique you should be completely safe [because] your momentum will keep you going into the mat. Another time I broke a pole I actually fractured my metacarpal bone [in the hand] just because of the vibrations that were caused by the pole breaking. I ended my jumping at OFSAA with a taped hand. It’s something you just have to completely block out ofyourmind while you’repolevaulting. Ifyou’re thinking your pole is gonna break there’s no way you’re gonna have confidence to get off the ground.” Pole vaulting is a demanding event that requires gymnastic ability, speed and jumping prowess. It takes a superb althlete to posses all of these skills and put them together in an effort to clear that highest of hurdles, the pole vault bar. As the bar continues to taunt this mechanical engineering student from Scarborough, he will diligently pursue it. The battle with the bar is a never-ending conflict, one that Waterloo’s Jeff Miller is wellequipped to handle.
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Hoopsters on road to Final Four by Peter Brown special to Imprint
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om Balfe shrugged and spoke quietly. He’s not displeased with himself, but he’s certainly not satisfied. “I’m back to where I was [last season] in some things, and still half a step slow in some other things. I didn’t come back just to get back to where I was. I’m looking to get better. ” The fifth-year forward, who returned to the Warrior basketball squad at Christmas, was good enough to score 20 points and haul down 12 boards while leading Waterloo in a close, 89-84 loss to the Brock Badgers iast Saturday. “The bottom line is that we haven’t won games,” Balfe said. “We’re not playing well enough to win. We have the potential to win. Game readiness is a big part of it, even sometimes more than the offensive sets and the defensive sets. If we can compete for 40 minutes, we’ll be in good shape.” Balfe’s attitude fits well with the underachieving ‘96 Warriors, who have looked competent against the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and Windsor Lancers, competitive versus the Brock Badgers, brilliant against the Guelph Gryphons, and downright awful versus the Western Mustangs. Even before last Wednesday night’s game against McMaster (results not available at press time), UW has qualified for post-season play, sporting a 5-7 record, good enough for at least sixth in the eight-team
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OUAA West division, The Warriors finish off their regular season schedule tomorrow at Guelph at 2 p.m., and will travel to play the third- or fourth-place finisher (probably Guelph or Brock, currently tied for third at 8-4) next Tues., Feb. 27, Lakehead {6-8) will be the other quarterfinal road team on Tuesday, while McMaster (9-3) and Western (1 l-3) have clinched firstround byes. The Marauders can clinch first seed overall by beating Brock tomorrow, since they hold the tie-breaker over Western by virtue oftheirtwo-game regular-season sweep of the ‘Stangs. Tuesday’s winners join McMaster and Western at next weekend’s CKJAA West final-four tournament at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. The two semi-final games go at 6 and 8 p.m. on Fri., Mar. 1, with the championship game at 3 p.m. on Sat., Mar, 2. The OUAA final game is scheduled for Sat,, Mar. 9, and the CIAU championship final-eight tournament runs Mar. 16-l 8. In other scores from last weekend, the Gryphons handed McMaster their third loss of the season with a 78-67 win at U. of G.‘s House of Slam. Western held on to edge Laurier 105- 10 1, while Lakehead and Windsor split a pair. The Warriors suffered yet another shooting slump at Brock last Saturday, falling behind 42-28 at half-time before tying the game twice down the stretch before succumbing 89-84. Fifth-year Badgerpoint guard
David Picton was the difference again, as he was in Brock’s 87-84 win at the PAC earlier this season. “We held Picton to 41 points,” joked UW head coach Tom Kieswetter. “It’s hard to beat Brock if you can’t solve the riddle of Dave P icton.” Picton’s 4 1 points set a Brock record for scoring in one game and vaultedhim over the l,OOO-point mark for his career. Sophomore forward Mike Stroeder scored 17 points and had seven rebounds, while point guard Mano Watsa had 14 points and six rebounds. Balfe’s play has improved drastically since his return to the team, to the point where, as of three games ago, he cracked the starting lineup. “Mike [Stroeder] is starting at three
[swing forward], with myself and Mark [Hopkins] at four [power forward] and five [centre],” Balfe said. But he was quick to note that this year’s version of the Warriors relies much less on a small number of individual leaders so much as on team play. “Each guy has his own role. I don’t see myself as a leader. If the guys see me as a leader, that’s fine. Right now, we know that we don’t really have a go-to guy, so it’s more on a game-by-game basis. If a guy’s having a good game, then we: know that it’s a good idea to go through that guy.” If the old adage about basketball starting inside and working out is true, then Waterloo fans should hope that the offence continues to run through Balfe and Hopkins if this team wants to survive Tuesday night and make the trip to Hamilton.
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Lisa Guch and Nancy Ford placed second in Senior Similar Dance, while Ford finished third in the Clpen Solo Dance event. In Variation Dance, Tina Siddik and Kristen Giles took third place, as did Laura Vanderheyden and Helen Atkinson in Intermediate Similar Dance. Siddik, Guch and Ford teamed with Susan Papert to place third in Original Set Pattern. Contributing to the Precision win were: Giles, Thomson, Ford, Siddik, Guch, Alison Ritchie, Jenn Hamson, Sharlene Slater, Susanne Smith, Laura Vipond and Gina Cerini.
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Jill Thomson Figure Skating A third-year Kinesiology student, Thomson skated a clean and flawless program to take her third straight Open Singles event - this time a.?the OWIAA Championships in London on the weekend - and led the Athenas to a bronze medal in the team competition. An OWIAA All-Star last season, Thomson teamed up with ten other UW skaters to take the Precision event; she also placed fourth in Pairs Fours with Alison Ritchie, Sharlene Slater and Laura Vipond.
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hen John Kordic was traded from the Montreal Canadiens to the Toronto Maple Leafs in late 1988, thenLeaf coach John Brophy was ecstatic. The Bropher considered Kordic one of the “Big Four” (the other three presumably being Gretzky, Lemieux and Yzerman), and finally gave him the muscle that would prevent the Buds from being pushed around the ice. As most hockey fans are no doubt now aware, Kordic was at that very moment in the midst of a downward spiral that’s since become one of the most tragic stoties in National Hockey League lore. That tragedy - addictions to alcohol, steroids and cocaine, and ultimately a mysterious death during a struggle with 10 police officers is the basis for Toronto Star reporter Mark Zwolinski’s The Fighf of His Life : The John Kordic Story, a book that’s in turns both fascinating and disturbing. Zwolinski traces the roots of Kordic’s demise to his relationship with his father Ivan, a master cabinetmaker. From as early as anyone can recall, John had as his “principal aim. +. to make his father proud. This was his aim as a boy, and became his overriding goal as a a young man. There were even some who may have seen it as an obsession.”
John’s other obsession was Hockey Night in Canada. As a big strapping kid growing up in Edmonton, he possessed surprisingly articulate hands and hockey finesse, and his dream was to some day play in the NHL with his heroes. This wasn’t a dream shared by his father Ivan. A Croatian tmigrb, Ivan’s passion was soccer; he was the convener of the city’s soccer league and, such was John’s gift as a goalie, that his preference was for John to play soccer instead ofhockey which he considered a game played by brutes. There was almost no holding John back however. Like many Canadian boys, hockey was his religion, and when he began to impress on-ice in his mid-teens he was drafted to the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League. A cultured man who could speak five languages, Ivan had no intention for his son to leave family and education to go live in the States, and debase himself in a career as unsophisticated and ugly as hockey. Nevertheless, Hawks management convinced the family of the benefits of the invitation, and after Ivan saw what it meant to his son he deferred resistance and allowed John to join, on the condition that he first attend a good hockey school to sharpen and refine his skills. Although a tough customer by this time in his nascent career, John had never had a hockey fight in his life. All that would quickly change. On the very first day of the Hawks training camp, John and fellow rookie Cam Neely were being schooled in the fine art of thuggery
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by resident goon Kelly Hubbard. Under the careful eye of his father, Kordic had never engaged in violence, but under Hubbard’s tutelage he was convinced that at some point or another he would be forced to protect himself. It came in his very first professional game. Suckered into a tight, Kordic survived an initial onslaught, then retaliated by pummelling his combatant. Kordic immediately asserted his “value” to the teamhe could absorb punches and return them viciously from an unorthodox southpaw stance. With the fans chanting his name in his very first game, “Kordic, Km-die, Kordic.. . ,” the die was cast and Kordic became an enforcer. Although he was desperate to get ice time to play the game he loved, he was brainwashed by the coaching staff and team management into believing that if he proffered any fantasies about playing in the NHL it would be as a goon. John’s skills as a pugilist helped the Winter Hawks win the Memorial Cup in his rookie season (a trend that later repeated itself; he also won the Calder and Stanley Cups in his rookie seasons) and make him a fan favourite, but his parents were horrified. Caught completely unaware as to his role when they arrived in Portland for their very first game, they witnessed John cream another player. Disgusted, they abruptly left the building and retired to a hotel where they refused to speak with their son. This was another trend that would endlessly repeat itself right through John’s professional career - the endless shame and humiliation that John’s reputation would bring to the family. Ivan had always believed that hockey had a certain grace and artistry, but that it was destroyed at the highest professional levels by the ridiculous incidences ofgoonery. Now his son was amongst the most legendary, and no degree of high salary was going to erase this from Ivan’s mind. Here lay John’s torment. His dreams were to make his father proud and to play in the NHL, but those dreams were at an impasse. Loathing himself, John’s introversion and personal hell saw some salvation in bouts with the bottle, and then came cocaine. Coke was the glamour drug of the 80’s, and the Montreal Canadiens were nothing if not glamourous in their hometown after winning a Stanley Cup, and coke was readily available. Soon John was snorting up to 5 grams a hY* Addicted to the money, fame and fan adulation accorded to him as a Montreal Canadien, John was convinced that he could only remain at the top as a fighter. Since this role was one of a pecking order and one that was always under threat, John began intense programs of steroid use. Intense guilt, alcohol, cocaine, steroids, paranoia, fame, and an intense ego . . . it needn’t come as any surprise that John was a walkineYtimebomb. Zwolinski weaves it
all into a tapestry through Kordic’s private hell; the denials, the benchings, the rehab clinics, the prostitutes, the sexually transmitted diseases, the trades, the fights... As sordid and tragic as it all sounds, Zwolinski has come up with
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Spring training is starting up again with the Cleveland Indians coming in stronger than last season, having added Cy Young-er Jack McDowell to the fold. The tribe lost Dave Winfield but signed Juilo Franc0 to fill the hole at DH. Other American League teams looking strong fur the 1996 year include the Baltimore Orioles, who added ex-Jay Roberto Alomar to their roster via free agency, and the Seattle Mariners who locked up Ken Griffey Jr. for the next kazillion years. Blue Jay fans have another season of agony ahead unless they can make deals to improve their closer and middle relief positions. Maybe fire Cito, too. It can’t hurt.
having to p1a.y two of the best sides in the world, Australia and the West Indies, who lboth forfeited their respective games citing threats to their security in light of the recent bombing in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Thumbs u.p to boxer Tommy Morrison for admitting that he made mistakes and that he is not to be considered a role model. The heavyweight tested HIV positive last week and during his official announcement made it clear that he was totally at fault and warned others not to follow in his steps. It is sad to see such a great athlete felled by HIV, but the way Morrison handled it couldn’t have been better,
The World Cup of Cricket kicked off last week and already there is controversy. Sri Lanka will be assured two victories without even
Thumbs down to Shaquille O’Neal, who announced he will not be participating in future NBA All-Star games. Two years ago he was double teamed in the game and this year he was robbed of the MVP award. O’Neal claims he doesn’t get the respect that other players in the league get, and says he will use the time to improve his game. Grow up Shaq! You’ll get respect when you start deserving it. You’re not the only victim of injustices in the world of sports.
result? Three teams got a lot better, and the Expos got a handful of prospects to lay their hopes on. What happens ifthese prospects turn out? They get traded for another batch of unproven youngsters. The fans of the Expos have become the prime example of the salary dumping problem. If they ever had a high quality team, it will last for one year, then they’ll be back at square one. And with Montreal’s pathetic fan support, they may not even have that. Montreal is not the only sad example however. Remember when the Pittsburgh Pirates won three division titles in a row a few years back? They had theKiller B’s Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla knocking balls all over the park. Barry’s now making $7 million a year in San Fran and Bobby is playing for the Orioles, making less than Barry, but more that anyone on the Pirates. Teams like Pittsburgh and Montreal can’t compete in a league where the richer teams can offer one player the equivalent to an entire smaller teams payroll. For an interesting take on this trend,take a look at the trading situation in the NBA. With a bumper crop of free agents on the market this summer, richer teams are looking to dump off as many long-term contracts as possible, to grab that key free agent and the NBA championship next year. In the past week, the New York Knicks have traded away almost $10 million is salary commitments for next season, in the hope they can pick up that final
piece of the puzzle. So now, mediocre players on the league’s top teams who have high salaries coming to them in the next few years are being offered to the lesser teams for ridiculously low prices. So, for the moment, the weaker teams are getting slightly better, but take the Raptors latest trade, involving essentially Willie Anderson for Doug Christie. Christie will be a decent player for the Raptors over the next few years, but the money New York saves on Christie will be offered to someone along the lines of Kenny Anderson come summer. Then which team looks better? Most of the wheeling and dealing in baseball is concluded for the moment as teams are preparing to swing into spring training, but basketball and hockey are fast approaching their trading dead1 ines, so you can expect a slew of trade rumours and actual deals, involving salary dumps. Like every other current tre:nd in sports, it will only serve to strengthen a few and weaken the rest. Conceivably, this is what the salary cap and mimimum salary requirements are here to solve; but since baseball still doesn’t have a collective bargaining agreement, the NHL and its players just signed one without a cap, football players aren’t happy with theirs, and the NBA’s is abolrt as solid as a sieve, none of the sports have any effective salary control. As long as there’s no control, the strong will thrive and baseball in Montreal will suck beaucoup.
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alary dumping is becoming a recurring trend in sports. It’s run rampant through baseball throughout this decade, and its starting to find a foothold in hockey and basketball. Trade after trade that comes off the wire seems to involve proven, and expensive talent being hocked for prospects, Like most salary-related issues in sports, this too is a travesty. The largest complaint in almost every professional sport is that the big market teams (the New Yurks, Torontos and Los Angeles’) are driving the smaller market teams (Montreal and Milwaulkee in baseball and Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton in the NHL) into oblivion. Because the bigger market teams have richer TV and endorsement deals, they can afford the high salaries commanded by the league’s top players, while the poorer teams are forced to exist on a steady diet of minor leaguers and end-of-theroad major leaguers. The Montreal Expos are easily the best example of this trend. Two seasons ago, before the strike cut the season short, the Expos were arguably the best team in baseball, boasting a potent offense and a solid pitching staff. After that season, they traded away Marquis Grissom, their leadoff hitter and quailty centre fielder, Ken Hill, their top starting pitcher, John Wetteland, their ace closer and they lost Larry Walker to free agency. The end
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2
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12 12 12
9 9 6
3 3 6
12
3
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12
3
12
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9 10
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808 835 896 973 918 981 970
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1178 964 843 962 941 944 829 950
1063 847 781 914 1014 978 955 1059
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30 23
36 36
66 59
22
23
32
55
26
17
34
51
25
30
20
50
24
26 23 26
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47 47 47 46 46 46 43 43
26 26
20 17
22 24
42 41
26
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26
25
25 15
41 40
BASKETBALLLEADING SCORERS EAST FC FGA Cory Bailey/Ltn 89 201 Carl Swantee/Tor 86 176 Nathan Aryev/York 77 174 Byron Nugentflork 62 110 Scott Belasco/Rye 83 178 WEST David Picton/Brock Titus Charmer/Mac Matt UcHillan/Wind Craig Law/Lakehead
GA 46 40
FT 52 36 41
46 26
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AK 25.6
111
214
29
93 99
174 211
44 47
82
168
33
43 56 65 42
22.4 19.9 17.6 16.6
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(7-15,
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53
60
12
43
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87
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28 36 21
64 58 59
92 94 80
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Kirsten Manley-Casimir - York Athena Cerochristodoulou - Toronto Diane Campbell - Toronto Diana Cerny - Toronto Patti Wilhellr - Ottawa Christy Goodfellow - York Wieke Gilbert - Rookie of the Year -
west
Jo-Anne Haunula - Lakehead Alison Palmer - Master Cari Walsh - WcBaster Lynn MacDonald - Western Colleen Delayer - Waterloo Lyanne Durand - Rookie of the Year - Cuelph FIGURINGSKATINC FINAA;iULTS Queen's - Cold . Western - Silver 90 . Waterloo- Bronze 64 Cue1 h Sl Broc (: 51 York 34 Toronto ;28 Ryersou iB Laurier !5 Ottawa 2 THIS WEEKIN THE OWLAA BASKETBALL DWIAA Final 8 Championship Tomament at York University - Feb. 23-25 Feb. 23 First round: Game 1: Master vs Laurent. 1:OO p,r. Game 2: Western Game 3: Lakehead Came 4: Toronto Feb. 24 Consolation semi-finals: Loser 1 vs Loser 2 1:OO p.m. Loser 3 vs Loser 4 3:D0 p.m. &&o;ship semi,-finals: vs Winner 2 6:DO p.m. Winner 3 vs Winner 4 8:oO p.m. Feb. 2S Fifth-place giure 1O:DO a.m. Bronze Medal gawe 12:oo p.m. Gold Medal gawe 2:Oo p.a.
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INMDR TRACK&FIELD Feb. 23
Last-chance
qualifier
at Toronto
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26 CIAU HOCKEYTOP TEN (WAA teas capitalized; previous ranking in parentheses) 1. UQTR PATRIOTES (1) 2. Acadia Axemen (3) 3. WATERLOOWARRIORS(2) 4. Alberta Golden Bears (4) 5. Calgary Dinosaurs (6) 6. Nanitoba Bisons (7) 7. St. Thomas Tomrnies (5) 8. NCGILL REDNEN(9) 9. Noncton Aigle Bleues (NR) 10. MJRENTIAN VOYAGEURS(NR)
Feb. 24
26
aM.l Finals at University Windsor at Waterloo
of Cuelph
(if
7:30 pm
necessary)
MID WEST Laurentian at Brock Brock at Lauren. (if necessary)
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26
Feb. 24
MIS WEEKIN THE OUAA
2s
Guelph at Toronto Toronto at Guelph (if
7:30 pm necessary)
FAR EAST Ottawa at UQTR Ottawa at UQTR (if necessary)
7:30 pm I:30 pm 7:30 pm
BASKETBALL
SWIMNG Feb. 21
24
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- 25
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0
Feb. 18 Seventh-place: Ottawa 3 Queen's (16-14, U-11, U-12) Fifth-place: Cue1ph 3 Brock
27 TR
2 16-14)
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Championship Toroirto ' (15-6, 15-8, York
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IT 65
John Pouliplenos/York
0
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2.86 3.33 3.39
FGA 229
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20 20 18 14 6 4 2
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(15-13,
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FG 99
Mike Lynch/Western
TP
7;; 681 735 754 815 785 850
11-15, 6-\;eIl;i6,
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38 82 25 1433: 28 81
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70 37 50 50 38 59 49 68
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827 929 909 924 910 858
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TP
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(15-9,
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10
14 14 14
Queen’s
TIME
HOCKEYSCORINGLEADERS PLAYER Marc Beaucage Pierre Gendron Kevin MacKay Jean Roberge Kiley Hill Patrick Genest Darren Dougan Todd Marcellus Todd Zavitz John Wynne Kelly Nobes Dave Tremblay Ben Davis Peter Brearley Jeff Goldie lamie Coon Martin Balleux
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VOLLEYBALLRESULTS OWIAA Ch;upionship Feb. 16 Quarter-finals: Toronto 3 Brock
31:40
15 KM FREESTYLE INDIVIDUAL Wayne Dustin Tin Heale Stephen Daniefs
14 14 14 14 14
York Laurentian::
10 KM CLASSIC Wayne Dustin Craig Storey David Climie
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10;: 876
Western Lakehead McMaster Laurier Waterloo Brock Guelph Windsor
3 Western 15-3)
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INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS
INDIVIDUAL
BASKETBALLRESULTS Feb. 14 Waterloo 76 Guelph HcMaster 71 Laurier Western 82 Brock Feb. 16 Laurentian 76 Queen's Ryerson Carleton York :: Ottawa Lakehead SO Windsor Feb. 17 York Carleton Ottawa i': Ryerson Cuelph Ezter 60 77 Waterloo Lakehead @ Windsor Feb. 18 Toronto 83 Laurential n
TP
63 73 121
u-5,
Gold medal: Toronto (15-7, 15-9,
0
NORDIC SKIING;
1 6 4 1 4
A
T
U-2,
(15-9, 0
WESTDIVISION FINAL Western 3 Windsor
5
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(3-15,
2
HOCKEYFINAL STANDINGS GP
17
1
ALL GAMESARE BEST 2-DUT-OF-3'S (HOME, AWAY, and t#NE (if necessary)) cowmencing Feb. 22, then Feb. 24 and Feb. 26
FM EAST UQTR McGill Ottawa
Third-place: Master
WEST DIVSION SEW1 FINALS Windsor 3 HcUaster (12-7, 15-10, 15-10) Western 3 Waterloo (15-6, 15-9, 17-15) EAST DIVISION FINAL Toronto 3 York
Feb. 13
Feb. 24 & 25
Ryerson at Toronto 2:oo Lauren. at York !I:00 WESTDIVISION QUARTERFINALS Lakehead or Waterloo at Brock 8:OO Lakehead or Waterloo at Guelph 8:DO
WA
CURLING FINALS
at East York Curling
pm p
pa pm
8:30 am Club 8:30 am
HOCKEY Feb. 22 - 26
DIVISION FINALS
Feb. 24
Waterloo at Windsor
(Best of Three)
Feb. 24
VOLLEYBALL OUAAFINAL Toronto at Western
2:OD pm
DON’T FORGET... (if necessary) Game 3 of the OUAA Far West Hockey Division is Monday, Feb. 26 at CIF, 7:30 pm.
FAR WEST
7:30 pa
GO WARRIORS!!
A Hextall
of a good time Change of Heart volcano Friday February 16 by Curtis Gloade special to Imprint hange of Heart’s lan Blur-ton looked fresh (it looked like he shampooed and conditioned), though a little shaky after a recent bass player ‘7 transplant. - Bass P transplants often lead to complications, and this time the patient nearly expired during the operation. However, the organs (and drums, and guitar) have not rejected the newcomer, despite any feelings of loss from the earlier extraction. Change of Heart’s resiliency and longevity reflects Blur-ton’s unstoppable work ethic. Over the past decade or so, Blur-ton has written and performed quality music with remarkable consistency, no matter who backs him up. When bass player John Borra left about eight months ago, it looked as though Blurton may try it alone. The wound eventually healed. Enter the young, energetic Rob Higgins, who came not from another band, but “from his mother’s
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Nothing to cry about
Weeping
Tile w/ Joe’s Funeral The Horses?loe Friday February 16
by Andrew Henderson Imprint staff
J
oe’ s Funeral is an appropriate name for a band that almost killed me with their boring repetitive music. Not one memorable song came out of their 45-minute set so lets leave it at that. Headliner Weeping Tile did not disappoint. Playing most everything from both eepee and cold snup, the band was in fine form on this cold and windy February evening. The crowd roared as they took the stage and snapped offpopu-
lar tunes such as “Poked,” “U.F.O. Rosie,” “Basement Apartment,” and “The Room with the Sir John A View”and by the night’s end Weeping Tile had whipped their viewers into a frenzy, Aside from the strong musical appeal of the show, the performers themselves were having fun. Guitarist Luther Wright was jumping around like Boris Renfield in a room full of flies, while singer/ guitarist Sarah Harmer enthusiastically bounced around the stage. When the band is having this much fun, you can’t help but be affected. After finishing an hour and twenty minute set, which included a brief acoustic interruption with Harmer going solo with Johnny
Cash’s “The Beast in Me,” the band returned and played one more song before trading instruments for the finale. Harmer got behind the drum kit, bassist Sister Mary and Drummer Captain Cam Giroux slapped on the eiectric six strings, and Wright handled the bass playing. Sister Mary sang this eccentric up tempo tune about being a sinner (it might have been called “I’m a Sinner,” but I’m not sure). With their March 14th show at the Bombshelter scrapped, K-W fans of Harrner and company will have to wait a little longer to see them live. But when they come, you better believe they’ll be coming strong.
vagina,” according to drummer John Richardson. Fans can look forward to Higgins’ active bass style on the new release expected in July. Combined with Bernard Maiezza’s well-orchestrated keys, and Blur-ton’s strong voice and guitar, the group carried a balanced and dynamic show that can only improve with more time together. Change of Heart usually puts on a long and spirited show, but Friday’s one-hour performance was disappointingly short. The new guy needs to study more of their older material. The lively and typically faithful Change-of-Heart-heads in attendance appreciated the few songs from the extant releases, and were treated with a steady flow of approximately ten examples of their newest tracks. Richardson says they expect to begin laying them down in the studio shortly. In one of the new songs, Blurfon expresses the horror of a media-centred age where folks like John Wayne Bobbit can make a career from a dismembered mem-
ber, and where companies like the Disney Corporation run amuck under the guise of a happy group of cute cartoon people. Change of Heart’s recordings always sound good, but as a fanoriented band, they perform even better to a crowd. Recent tastes of success with their tour with The Tragically Hip, and their first-place finish in the CFNY contest proved their potential. Now someone needs to nominate: them for a Juno (or something) to help propel them a little further. A “band” called Choke to Start opened the evening with a long hour of unrestrained distortion and feedback that seemed to appeal only to the all-ager friends of the band. The indiscernible vocals were thankfully sparse and the songs did not have endings to speak of. Dozens and dozens of capable and wellrehearsed bands call Kitchener-Waterloo their home but cannot seem to land decent venues, yet a decidedly inexperienced band like Choke to Start ends up playing for a paying audience. Y ikes.
IMPRINT, Friday, February 23,1996
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ARTS
The Sweet Spot ofBig Sugar
First
you
get the Sugar,
then
you
Big Sugar the Imprint interview by Mark F&din special to Imprint ordie Johnson, lead singer and guitar player for Toronto rock band Big Sugar, likes to play, and sing loud. Having attended the band’s last show at Federation Hall, it’s apparent why Big Sugar are no longer welcome at a number of Toronto blues clubs. “Unfortunately, blues clubs won’t have us,” explains the 3 1 year old Windsor native. “We’re too loud, and they keep on asking us to turn it down.” Though Johnson and his band call Toronto home, (“We have a very good following in the city, making it a good base to have,” explains Johnson), their current tours are taking the band across the border and all the way over to Europe. Subscribing to the formula that musically the same ideas work on both sides of the border, Big Sugar are witnessing an increase in audience turnout, particularly in the U.S. “We are still pIaying in Purveyors smaller clubs, but the audience is definitely growing,” says Johnson. A Juno nomination last year for best new group has also incrtased exposure for the band, but Johnson isn’t easily impressed by awards. “It was just a party... l’m not wowed by awards, its very subjective to begin with.”
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get the power. Nevertheless, the event kicked off a high profile summer gig, by way of Alberta’s Big Sky concert, where Johnson and company shared the stage with such Canadian heavyweights as Sarah Mclachlan and Colin James. To see Big Sugar perform, and to witness the intensity and musical dynamics of the band, it is easy to see why their music is now reaching a broader audience. Incorporating such musical elements blues,
of Cavity
Rock.
jazz, rockabilly, and reggae, the band’s sound becomes instantly appealing. As Johnson explains, diversity is inevitable, considering the history of the musicians. “Our bass player, Garry Lowe comes from a reggae background, while our
drummer, Paul Brennan, whom we’ve had since November, is very Kelly much a rock drummer.” Hoppe, the fourth member and long time musical compatriot to Johnson, rounds out the sound with the blues harmonica, jazz saxophone, and occasional backup guitar. Johnson’s own musical style is born out of influences as varied as Led Zeppelin, Son House, and 1920’s delta blues player Charlie Patton. In concert, Johnson often incorporates the guitar styles of the delta players, playing slide guitar in open tunings, staple trademarks of the 1920s players. Johnson also cites the wild abandonment of Neil Young’s guitar playing and singing as an influence. Though not swayed by the Canadian superstar’s songwriting, Johnsonprefers toembrace Young’s anarchy-tinged stage performance. As he explains, the effect is “sounding like everything is going to fall apart any second.” If an ever possible chaos shadows Big Sugar during performances, on record the band remains tight and focused. Their latest, and fourth recording, Dear Mr. Fmtusy, (named after the Traffic song), is a five song EP released exclusively in Canada, and it captures Big Sugar’s distinctive sound combining blues based originals with rewed up covers. Johnson characteristically occupies lead role on the CD, both as principle songwriter and arranger, but the songs overall sound is that of a combined group effort. “I work with the band from the bottom up,” says Johnson. “It becomes more arrangement oriented, opposed to being a guitar player who’s, like, ‘when’s it my turn to solo?‘.” As far as Johnson’s distinct musical approach to the band, much can be attributed to his own musical history. “I didn’t pick up a guitar until I was 21, which is rather late,” he explains. “But I beganplaying the bass guitar professionally, at Z3.” Johnson’s early days of playing in various musical genres, including a stint in a jazz band, explains the eccentric nature ofboth his live performances and his records. Committed to a gruelling touring schedule (which Johnson surprisingly claims to love), Big Sugar still hopes to release a fifth CD by the summer of ‘96, Johnson intends the recording to take a slightly different approach than past efforts. ‘The lyrics will probably be more introspective, while the music will be more aggressive,” he says, “I know in my head what it’s going to sound like already, but the vinyl will speak for itself.” Without a doubt, it will probably speak loudly.
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Sandman
Sandman Blues by Stepham Bourguignon Stoddart Publishing 227 pgs., $18.95 soft by Andrew Imprint
Pierrot meets Sonia, an eccentric, beautiful sewing-machine operator who dreams of making her mark in the world of fashion design. They hit it off and Julien fears his friendship with Pierrot will be lost. Julien decides to accept his loss and continue to live his half-
Henderson
staff
W
ith all of the GenX trite that’s floating around out there right now, it is refreshing to see a gloom and doom novel with a message other than “life sucks.” Hard to fathom I know. Bourguignon’s tale of love and loss, with the underlying theme of the shrivelling Canadian economy, appeals equally to the heart and the funny bone while delivering an ultimate message of friendship and hope. Sure, the main character doesn’t have a great deal to laugh about, but Julien’s wit and cynicism never cease to amuse the reader. At the outset of the novel we learn that Julien has been avoiding the world for the past eight months as a result ofhis girlfriend’s untimely and accidental death. Pierrot, his best friend, decides enough is enough and drags Julien back into the world. Their night out, consequently, shapes their futures, for better or worse.
existence to the fullest. He starts working for Grandad, a widowed potato farmer, and finds they share many experiences.
press
- Director Gregg Araki throws a Wang/e of copdating kd/em info a bndscape of motels and Quickie Marts, generating a fast, lurid fluid-spirting movie where no piety is spared.” “*****
- Ingrid Randoja.
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It is at Grandad’s f?uit and vegetable stand that Julien meets Annie. After chasing her for blocks in an attempt to recover some stolen fruit, all he can utter to the culprit is, “I guess you don’t feel like going for a beer.” Bourguignon’s treatment of relationships, both Platonic and otherwise, is blunt at times but tender and sincere overall. After Pierrot has found his true love, each of the other principals, Grandad included, find love and, aside from a few domestic problems, life is peachy for Julien and friends. Without giving anything away, something happens to disturb and disrupt their state of euphoria and Bourguignon reminds his audience of the delicacy and inconsistency of life. The novel ends with a marriage, a symbolic new beginning of sorts, with each of the characters showing some signs of hope for the future. This beautifully framed ending is Elourguignon’s biggest triumph. Sandman Hues is a brilliant exploration of the intricacies of relationships and a thoroughly intoxicating read. A must for any modem Canadian literature buffs bookshelf.
Welcome to the Freak Generation by Sandy Atwal special to Imprint The story so far: Afier the overnight success of Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes, Box was released in the middle of last year to cash in on the success of the aforementioned albums. GBV suddenly found themselves the darlings of the indie
music-press
types
straight ahead power pop. While perhaps not as well known as Bee Thousand, Sandbox is a likely second in the band’s accesibilty scale.
58 sets. of noise, “Hank’s Little
Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1987): GBV falter here by putting out an album of samey sounding tunes and very little experimentation. There’s still some alright stuff here, but like later albums such as Propeller and Vampire on Titus (released on one CD, but not in this box set) the sameness isn’t broken up by “that one really good song.”
Fingers” is probably the band’s best, first straight ahead pop song, “Hey, hey Spaceman” demonstrates the genesis of the band’s outer-space fixation, while “Artboat” and “Captain’s Dead” are both unlistenable noise. GBV in a nutshell.
\
have
rn&ed in on the new flavour of the month. For those ofyou familiar with Guided by Voices, (known as Guided by Beers to some) you’ll know that BOX is a compilation of their first four albums and an album of unreleased material. While their semi-unique brand of mixing “traditional” indie rock with. . .well, The Beatles, seems to have found its home on releases like&e ThousandandAiiert Lanes, the journey that the band took to reach that point is equally fascinating. So, come now, and join me on a trip through GBV’s history. , . Devil Between My Toes (1987):
GBV’s 1487 calling card clocks in at barely over half an hour, but displays a smattering of almost all
by Peter
of what makes Guided by Voices sound like Guided by Voices. “A Portrait Destroyed by Fire” is a slow, somewhat scary piece, “A Proud and Blooming Industry” is
Leaardon
rmprint staff Home Alive is a grassroots organization based in Seattle that is “hell bent on fighting all forms of violence,” and acts by informing individuals on different forms of self-defense, both physical and verbal. It is a group of bands and other artists who advocate any means necessary to avoid being the victim of violence. Home Alive includes rape, domestic abuse, and gay/lesbian bashing among the types of violence they oppose. I would suggest to them another category: noise pollution. The album, Hume .?live - The Art uf Serf Defense, contains 47 tracks which range from gored old
\
Sandbox ( 1989): Although GBV’s second album is their shortest (twelve tracks at just over twentyseven minutes) it;% easily their most accessible. Quick, brief tracks like “Lips of Steel” and “Everyday” (with a simple chorus of “everyday” that’s pretty damn catchy) are tunes that most GBV fans will appreciate right away. That’s not to say that the band isn’t already evolving. The tempo changes that would become almost
standard find their origin in tracks like “Barricade” while their experimentation
is tempered
with
Seattle rock to spoken word performances and poetry. There are some popular bands like Pearl Jam, The Posies, and Soundgarden as well as outfits which I didn’t recognize from the normal CFNY play list. A large portion of the songs are your run of the mill heavy base, heavy power chord, self-indulgent Seattle rock. Don’t get me w-rang, there’s a lot of merit to be found in songs done in that style. But A ad R guys have signed every band that sounds at all like Nirvana (which has a live version of“Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” on the album), and the style has becomes so homogeneous that it loses the spirit that made it good ill the first place. 2 bat’s what this album sounds ~lke:. Some songs have a ring of originality, but most are just fast, heavy and ‘boring. Stand-outs include “Party Dream” by Green Apple Quickstep, “Leaving Here” performed by Pearl Jam, and “Kyle
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990): Although Sandbox was initially &y favourite CD in this set, SPTFGS is a brilliant return to form for the band. From with the dark “Airshow ‘88” to the wonderfully poppy “How Loft Am I” &i&-the album that should have broken GBV into the mainstream. The real gem is “Local MixUp/Murder Charge” which breaks up the slow ominous verse with a patented memorable, tuneful GBV chorus. Essential. King Shit and the Golden Boys (I 991 v 1993): The final CG in this collection is bb ilaphazard collection of 19 unreleased tracks, and as such is no more or less disappointing than similar compilations. Anyone who suggests that GBV albums don’t have any cohesion should listen 00 this and consequently, shut the fuck up. The CD suffers from a lack of direction, and remains somewhat expendable.
by Greg Imprint
Kraf&ick staff
I’d be curious to find out whether or not this was the single the band planned to release the whole time. As it turns out, “1979” was getting nearly as much airplay as “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” as soon as the brilliantM&~n Callie. ,. was released, so groundswell support may have happened here. Of course there’s another good reason - it’s a fantastic song, Billy Corgan’s take on New Order with a kind of understated melocholia about it. Unfortunately, the three unreleased songs truly fit the moniker of B-side. When you stop and think that these songs didn’t make the cut on atwenIjr eight track album, you can see why this is the case.
Petty (Son of Richard)”
by Soundgarden. only b&cause they break the three chord power pop monotony, As for the number of spoken word tracks and poetry, well - I personally don’t like to be ranted at. Buyers of this album probably do not need to be told that violence against women and others is widespread and completely abhorrent. It would have done listeners and Home Alive a better service to have some informative spoken word tracks regarding what to do if you feel intimidated or physically threatened. Someone sympathetic to victims of violence doesn’t want to hear a woman scream graphic details of an assault through a stereo. A fan of the Nirvana/ SoundgardenlPosies genre could probably find enough songs to like on this album and its profits do go to a good cause, but be prepared for a lot of what can only be called noise.
by Dave Imprint
Lynch staff
Combustible Edison is a jazzy quintet from Sub Pop that seems perfect for the atmosphere that the directors wanted to create for the movie. At least, that’s the impression I get from having seen the previews for it - I haven’t actually seen the movie. The fllrst thing that comes to mind listening to this soundtrack is - no joke - I Dream of Jeannie. It even comes with an excerpt from Bewitched. Yes, it’s Tarentino’s quirky personality showing through again in the music, even if it wasn’t entirely his movie. With any luck though, we won’t be hearing this in the Bombshelter along with “Stuck in
the Middle With You” and Urge Overkill.
If we do, it will be an-
Track two starts the b-side fest with “Ugly,” and though it contains some atypical instrumentation (deep cello nnoans, plinky percussion) the tune just sort of sits there and does nothing. The second song is the James “George Htison of the Smashing Pumpkins” Iha contribution called “Believe,” that sounds rather conspicuously like “Take Me Down,” the song he composed that ends disc one of the album. Finally “Cherry” is another song that inspires general apathy - it’s nothing too bad, but then again it’s, nothing too good either. Perhaps the best thing about this ep (besides t.he title track) are the band photos on the cover and inside. If you’ve seen the video for ” 1979” you’ll recognize the cheesy 70s outfits on the band. I think the best one of the four is D’Arcy @ictured above) who looks like a fifth member of Abba or something. Whatever the case, this is far from being a necessary purchase, even for a fan.
other triumph for marketing aspeople completely pissed out of their skulls say, “No, really, I Iove this song!!!” That’s because the combination of jazz and parlour-style music here is a lot less irritating that you might think, and can stand on its own merits, even if it will only appeal to a limited audience. Various jazz tunes meander #rough the twenty-nine-odd tracks, with short diversions, including an interesting version of “Harlem Nocturne” done by Esquivel. Most of the tracks are short, and this CD does suffer ar little from soundtrackitis - too many tracks that are too short to be songs. But as background music, it’s not bad, and the urge to turn it off and put on some real music is surprisingly small. In the end, you’ll see the movie and either like the soundtick or have no great desire to own it. That is, unless you’re really into jazz that makes you think of crazy bellhops with English accents and listening to old TV show themes.
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by Patrick Wi.lk3.n~ Imprint St&f What can we say about tribute albums? I can’t remember a great tribute album since...1 can’t even remember a good tribute album. Record company executives in ivory towers practice this most horrendous form of musical recycling as a way to avoid the fact that there is little truly original music these days. Best to get twenty “alternative” acts together, re-record the classics of Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath or Joy Division or Tom Waits, release the whole thing under a huge media blitz, and pray that no one figures out that the originals are still much better. Refreshingly, some recent albums actually put the tribute back into tribute album. Bob Snider, for example, is widely considered one of Canada’s best songwriters; he also remains one of our least-recognized talents. With that in mind, a few friends and fans booked Toronto’s Opera House for a night of other people playing Bob Snider’s music. Bob himself was there; so were the Leslie Spit Treeo, Change of Heart, Moxy Friivous, Jughead, Kyp Harness, and nearly a dozen others, including hosts Kevin McDonald and Dave Foley. Recorded live in March of 1994, the show has just been released as Poetreason: the Songs uf Bob Snider. The sounds here span the musical spectrum. Jughead’s folk-rock “Arch Support Blues” has ten musicians on everything from washboard and fiddle to dobro and man-
dolin. Watertown play a fairly straightforward “A Love to Call My Own” with their soft dual harmonies. Kyp Harness brings a tuba to “Sitting in a Doorway,” UIC rock through a barroom version of “I’m a Cowboy Now” without a trace of sarcasm, and Moxy Friivous make “Ash Hash” their own, resulting in one of the few Moxy Friivous songs with actual replayability value. MerynCadell andVeda Hill&s east-meets-west version 0f”Blues I Get” is hit-and-miss. It’s about time for someone to tell Cadell that she can’t sing. Hilie, on the other hand, has the voice of an angel, although she only uses it occasionally. Her fine piano is also wasted backing Cadell’s raspy off-key vocalizations. Next time, shove that sweater down you-know-who’s throat. l-&lead wasn’t at the show itself, but contribute a studio version of “They Oughtta Bottle Friday Night” that represents one of the best Bob-rock fusions. The true gem of the album, however, is Kevin McDonald’s original “Song for Bob Snider.” Less than a minute long, completely musically incompetent, lyrically deficient, senseless and inane, Bob Snider himself calls it, “the most beautiful song I ever heard .” Why buy Poetreason? Well, it wiI1 probably see a lot of sales in Toronto, due to the sheer number of top-notch Hogtown bands appearing. Bob Snider fans (and there are quite a few out there) can pick this up without fear of hearing anything they’ve heard before. Nothing on this album is essential by any means, but the overall tone of the album is excellent for those interested in a snapshot of Bob Snider and the Toronto music community.
Jim Norman is a drummer. On June 6, 1993, he got together with a few friends in his house in Toronto and recorded an entire album, mostly in one take. Not impressed? Consider this: The Norman drumkit consists ofthirty five standard and custom-made drums, fifteen cymbals, gongs from China and Bali, a seven foot rain stick, a pair of chimes each the width and height of the average eight-year-old kid, and over fifty other percussion sounds. He’s invented a process he calls thnmming, which involves playing electronic drum sounds using guitar-like fingering. His friends include Matt Horner, Monte Horton, Pat Kilbride, Oliver Schroer and Michael White, who are among Canada’s premiere jazz musicians. Jim Nor-
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Pushing musical genres often leads to disastrous results. You push funk too f&r and you get disco, you push pop too far and you get new wave, you push alternative to far and you get Alanis Morissette. But jazz is a genre in which these types ofexperiments lead to new thoughts and directions. Think of Miles Davis’Pangeu or Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and the ideas that stemmed from those albums . Mark Isham is probably best known for his work on movie scores; at one point this was his full-time job while he played jazz clubs by night. It’s unlikely that you haven’t
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What ‘Is the point of a cover album? Sometimes it’s an amusing mockery of the songs being covered (i.e. the Residents “The King And I”). Sometimes it’s a heartfelt tribute to the artist who’s songs are being covered (i.e. the Residents “The King And I”). This is neither. This sounds like a bunch of guys playing along with the songs they heard on the radio when they were younger, but now they’ve got an expensive studio to make it sound better. Remember when you were young and went downtown to see a local bands that only played covers because they didn’t know how to write their own material? If they knew how to play their
IMPRINT, Friday, February 23,1996 man is not your average drummer. The recently released Time Changes, Times Change is packed with 77 minutes of percussion-oriented jazz. Rehearsed for months before the final record& sixteen ofthe eighteen songs were recorded in one take, with no overdubs. Listening to the album, however, there’s no sign of haste in production. Keyboards, guitar, bass, vio-
lin and trumpet mix seamlessly with Norman’s enormous percus-
sive repertoire. This is a jazz album for people who don’t love jazz. Although Norman’s childhood was steeped in jazz music, lhe also expresses interest in world beats and explains that his early sense of harmonics was gained from playing classical guitar. “The simple.. . beats of the fi fties and sixties pop and rock was never enough,” he writes in his bio, and a few of the faster tracks indeed out-rock rock. All these traditions come together in his music, from rock ‘n’ roll basslines to folk melodies, with arrangements from the aleatoric jazz style to IS. Bachian fuges. It’snot allperfect, ofcourse. Once in a while, particularly in the first half, the tempo lags and it’s tempting to skip to the next track. All things come in time, however, and each new song brings a fresh sound to the alert ear, The: only thing more impressive than the sight of Jim Norman’s drum kit is the sound it can produce. A project of this magnitude, by a man who could be the world’s first true virtuoso drummer, should not be ignored. Time Chmges, Times Change. But the beats go on.
been exposed to his music, His film work includes: “A River Runs Through It,” “The Modems,” “Quiz Show,” “Nell,” “The Net.” In addition, he received an Emmy Nomination for his theme to the hit show Chicago Hope. More importantly though is his solo career, which began fulltime last year, shortly after leaving his film career. His previous solo work includes his 1990 self-titled release (Virgin Records) and his 199 I follow-up release “Songs My Children Taught Me” (Windham Hill). This is his third project and it shows his diversity and creativity as a solo artist. Blue Sun is a terrific album. Written entirely by Isham (except for the Duke Ellington classic “In A Sentimental Mood”) it fully displays his talent as a writer and jazz musician. What often sounds like improvisation, is actually Isham’s
creation, with each musician playing to his specs. The opening track, “Barcelona,” has a mellow, haunting feel to it, with Tsham playing both trumpet (his main instrument) and coronet, followed by “That Beautitil Sadness” which is obviously more of a free form type of song. Isham reflects: “To me this song exemplifies the blend of cool jazz and ,modern sensibilities that we set out to achieve.” Blue Sun often shifts from this type of adult contemporary/jazz fusion to your more Classic jazz style, in a finai product that is fresh and invigorating. The remainder of the tracks also move from soft melodies to swinging beats leaving a well rounded piece of work. With Blue Sun Isham has created something unique, and in a day and age when imitating past work is commonplace, an album like this is a breath of fresh air.
instruments well, they’d try to sound exactly like the recording of the song that you heard on the radio, and the only thing that didn’t sound the same as the radio was the singer’s voice. That’s what this album sounds like, at least the songs 1 recognize. “Cinnamon Girl” is the most true to the original song on here. Of course, the singer can’t replicate Neil Young’s voice, but the guitars, bass and &ms are all very accurate. It’s like a karaoke version of the song: the music’s the same but the vocals are someone else’s. The same is true for their version of Gary Numan’s “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” I suppose it shows some musical prowess to be able to accurately cover both Neil Young and Gary Numan, but I don’t thinkaccuracy is what aband should be striving for when they do a cover album. If I want to hear these old favourites with a different singer, I could buy the various singles and
sing along myselt: A cover album should do more than show off the bands ability to play back what they heard on the radio. There should be something that makes it stand out from the original and other covers of the same song. An exact copy is pointless: a tape machine can do that. A copy with a different interpretation would have been much better. The tracks on the CD aren’t bad, if you like the artists covered (the Cars, Beatles, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, David Bowie...) but then you’d probably be better offbuying the originals.
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EVERY TUESDAY To become a better public speaker, read in public and build your confidence, join the Christopher Leadership Course. This course begins March 19 to May 28, 1996 from 7 to 10 p.m. Students $90.00 (books included), adults$t 10. For more info call Loiita Nechacov at (519) 576-
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Government Publications on the World Wide Web _.. A Tour: this presentation will focus on the variety of information published by governments (Canadian, international, and foreign), that can be accessed using the Web. Meet at the Dana Porter Library Information Desk, lo:30 - 11:30 a.m.
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