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March 18,

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8,

1996

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0706-7380

A not-so-holy

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he University of Ivatzrloo Arts Student Union is under attack from its 3~44 coun-

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claimed as Treasurer).

The PSSA has said that it made requests to examine the ASU books, but the Treasurer failed

“I would expect a little more from a group that is dealing with this kind of money,” said Mike Suska, Federation of Students outgoing

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Editorial Editor in C‘hicf AssIstant Editor News l:riitor News Assistant Arts Editor Arts Assistant Sports Editor Sports Assistant Features Editor Scicncc Editor Photo Editor Photo Assistant WWW Page Editor Proofrcadcrs

Board Dave Fixhcr SandyAtwal Pctcr Lcnardon Kicran Green Circg Krafchick Greg Pickcn Ryan Pycttc Jeff Pcctcrs ChristincChcng vacant Kob Potton Jot Palmer Hank Liao David Bauer Katy MacKinnon

The biggest concern centres around the curren: state of the ASU’s budget. The problems began with past ,4X! Treasi~-er Matt Main, who rssigned halfway through his term for “personal reasons.” Even ASU President Josh Windsor admits that Main, during his term, “did no work.” During Main’s whole time in office, he made no effort to keep the books up to date. This has led to a great deal of confusion as to the current state of ASU finances.

After Main’s resignation, Josh Windsor appointed Mike Lippert to the position of ‘Treasurer (in the recent ASU election, Lippert was ac-

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Contribution

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Finally, at the ASC’s recent Council meeting - held Tuesday, March 5 - Lippert presented a “budget” to the council. All observers have commented that Lippert’s budget is a shoddy, inadequate document.

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ast week,lmprintandother campus newspapers across the country ran tobacco advertising for the first time since 1989, when advertising tobacco products became illegal under the federal government’s Tobacco Products Control Act. Many sections of this act were struck down last September by the Supreme Court of Canada, including the prohibition on advertising, for being unconstitutional.

The tobacco industry has now voluntarily imposed a code of ethics on its advertising, and while the code does contain provisions about the placement of ads (i.e. near schools), it had been decided that student papers are perfectly acceptable places to advertise. This decision has not gone unchallenged.

Dr. Terry Polevoy is leading the charge against this advertising in Southern Ontario.

A former pediatrician and self-described social activist who came to Canada as a draft dodger in 1970, Polevoy sent e-mail to Imprint asking students to “organize a protest over full page ads being pushed into their faces” by tobacco companies.

Vice President, Finance.

The document does not provide a grand total of the ASU’s expenses.

The budget also did not go into detail as to where the funds marked “Grants” and “Loans” had been spent. At the Council meeting, the PSSA made

tobacco-funded events like golf and tennis tournaments.

members of the medical faculty were involved with a golf tournament funded by du Maurier.

the approximately $2,000 payment they would receive to run the ad. “I’m angry that the school may not have the guts to say no,” said Polevoy.

Western did decide to go ahead with the advertisement, The editors of the Gazetre decided to run the ad, and the SU, which could have forced the Gazette ta pull the ad, agreed wifh the decision. To do othervYis~would have seemed at Ieast slightly hypu-

Since

that time,

Polevoy

a request to see a f’ull, detailed financial statement of the ASU’s finances which breaks down hog all monies were spent. Windsor agreed that the budget was not up to par, and said that he would be teaching Lippert how to prepare a proper one. “I find that frightening, thlat they have to tea& their Treasurer how to preparc: a budget halfway through his term,” commented Suska.

The basic finances of the ASU work like this: every undergraduate arts students pays a (refundable) $7.50 fee on their tuition statement.

That money is collected by the UW Federation of Students who then hand it owx to the ASU in two instalments.

With an enrolment ofalmost 3000 undergraduate arts students, the ASU is receiving between $15,000 and $20,000 during the Fall and ‘Winter Terms. According to the lconstitution ofthe ASU, every faculty society or club which is an active member of the ASU will automatically receive a basic allotment of “$2.50 times Continued

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a kil ling

(he quit in 1989) and became involved in the anti-tobacco movement after witnessing some of the effects of smoking while visiting his wife in the cancer ward of Victoria Hospltal in London. Not only could he watch people dying of-lung cancer puffing away in the smoking lounge across the hall from his wife’s room, but he discovered that several prominent

has published articles in papers across the country and appeared on both television and radio shows. He has an extensive list of events that the government and tobacco companies have cosponsored, and an equally extensix rs list of medical profe;sionals being associated with

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One of Polevoy’s messages dealt with the Western Gazette’s discussion of the issue. Before the ad ran at UWO, both the Student’s Council Board of Directors and the three senior editors at theGaze!& were considering their options, weighing the possible negative consequences of promoting tobacco products against

critical as the Student’s Union at Western operates two bars and a variety sitore on campus, all of which sell1 cigarettes.

Gillian Livingston, the Editor-in-chief of the Gazette, told Imprint that the decision has been almost completely uncontroversial. “l’ve received about as many calls from reporters as I have from people against it,” said Livingston, adding that in the week since the ad ran, the Gazette received just two letters to the editor on the issue. In contrast, Imprint has received t?te letters regarding tobacco advertising in the five days foltowing the first a.ppearance of the ad.

“We...couldn’t justify why we would not run it,” explained Livingston.

“We believe students are able to make those decisions on their own. They’re adults when they come to university and are able to decide what lifestyle choices tlhey’d like to make.”

Here: at UWJmprint is fully autonomous, so the Federation of Students has no direct power to influence imprint’s advertising. However, Fed President Jane Pak says she would at least do a “trial run. .-to solicit input” from the students. “I believe in freedom of :jpeech,” said Pak, but acknowledged that “people may get offended by it.”

Polevoy is def\niteIy offended. He wants students to Continued

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Fridav. March 8,1996

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he university’s campus radio station, CKMS 100.3 FM held its seventh annual Spina-thon last Friday. This twenty-four hour broadcast was a successful fundraiser for the station this year with over $1000 in pledges, many of which have already been paid.

UW students already pay a refundable fee for CKMS services, so the Spin-a-thon is a way of soliciting non-student listeners for pledges.

In addition to on-air pledges, volunteers were circulating with pledge sheets before the radio marathon began.

Eva Rucki, Music Co-ordinator at CKMS, said even some of the non-student volunteers at the station pledged money toward the cause. This is on top of the ten dollar volunteering fee for those not registered at UW. Rucki also mentioned the possibility of staging a benefit concert for CKMS in the future, but emphasized that donations are welcome at any time.

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“Imprint is always changing, but the decisions we make in the next year in trying to adapt to the rapid pace of technological change is going to shape our paper for years to come.”

He added, “In a time when students are bearing the brunt of increased tuition with no limited assistance and facing a bleak future after they graduate, the student newspaper has an extremely important role to fill, both as a source of information and as a source of amusement.

I hope I can provide both.”

Atwal stressed the importance of volunteers to the student newspaper, saying “Ultimately, the volunteers are what make Imprint work. The newspaper we produce is strictly the result of thirty people who come down in their spare time, between their classes and their jobs, and I think the job they do is superb.

I’ve seen a lot of Canadian student newspapers, and Imprint is easily one of the best. I’m certainly going to do everything I can to make sure that tradition continues.

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the number of students in that club’s major who have paid the ASU fee. ‘%e minimum allotment is $125 for the Fall and Winter Terms. The minimum allotment for the Spring Term will be $75 .” For each student the ASU keeps $5.

According to Lippert’s Winter Term budget, the ASU had a starting balance of $3,376.91, and had received their first instalment from the Feds in the amount of $10,273.20.

The ASU basic ailotment to the various societies amounted to $4,747.50. The members of the ASU Council want to know where the rest of the money, including the $7 18 for “Loans” and $9 17 for “Grants” is being spent.

“There are so many things that they won’t explain and can’t explain,” commented Joanna Werden, President of the PSSA. “For peace of mind we’dlike to know how money is being spent.”

The PSSA has introduced a motion to amend the constitution with regards to the allotment each society receives per student. They would like to see the amount raised from $2.50 to $3.50. The PSSA has said that one of its aims is to bring about a discussion of the ASU financial situation.

In order to get their ammendment motion discussed this term, however, the PS SA had to move to have an extra emergency council meeting held on Tuesday, March 12.

The council voted on the motion to hold the emergency meeting and passed it, but Windsor voted against. Xn retrospect, Windsor said that he regretted that decision, “I probably shouldn’t have, I would take it back if I could.”

Windsor maintains, however, that the PSSA amendment is “absurd.” He argued that raising the allotment will only benefit the big societies, like thePSSA, which have a larger membership.

“They are not taking into account the needs of all Arts students, only the needs of the PSSA.”

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He also said that the smaller societies will be hurt because the loans and grants funds on which they can draw will be depleted. The PSSA admits that bigger clubs will benefit, but does not believe that the smaller ones will be hurt. “It is well within the ASU budget to give that extra money. Where is that $5 going? ” asked Werden.

The PSSA alleges that ASU money is being spent on the executive themselves, without the authorization of Council. “They want money for computer games for their little ofice,” said PSSA President Joanna Werden.

Windsor denied the PSSA’s claim. “There is no misappropriation,” he said.

Apart from the whole budget issue, the members of the ASU Council have expressed concerns about the way the ASU is operating procedurally, and that the executive have repeatedly violated the ASU constitution.

At the recent Council meeting, councillors questioned the way the ASU executive elections, held Monday, March 4, were run. The ASU set up polling stations in three different locations, but didn’t provide the station operators with voter lists. To vote, arts students only had to present their student cards and sign their name on the list. Councillors were worried that this might allow individuals to vote more than once. The CR0 stated that she had not been able to get a list of arts students’ names and 1D numbers until the last minute, and even then, had not been allowed to make copies of the list to give to the polling officers. She said that she had compared the lists from the three polling stations and had found no problems.

When questioned as to what would have happened if discrepancies had been found, the CR0 replied that the election would have been nullified. The matter was made easier by the fact that four of the five positions were filled by acclamat&n, and only 40 people, less

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than 2% of eligible voters, turned out to vote for the fifth position, that of ASU Secretary.

Many of the Council’s other concerns have been directed at President Josh Windsor himself.

The ASU constitution states that at council meetings only the executive, two first-year representatives, one general non-major rep., and one rep. from each of the societies may vote on Imotions. At the Council meeting held February 20, however, Windsor declared that ever-yone present at the meeting could vote. Windsor admitted that this had been a mistake, and that he had misread the constitution.

Council members have said that generally, meeting procedure has been inconsistent and has rarely followed the guidelines set down in the constitution.

They have also complained that the executive will not provide them with an up-todate list of all active societies and their official representatives.

The PSSA councillors are also concerned about the appointment of Lippert as Treasurer. The constitution states that the President has “the power to appoint any member to any vacant positionshotrldCouncil n&~t 10 do sn (italics added

by Imprint).”

The councilors said that they were not consulted on Lippert’s appointment.

While admitting that Lippert has no account ing experience, Windsor defended his decision lby saying that Lippert is an “accountable and trustworthy person.”

The issues whit h have surfaced around the ASU have attracted the attention of the Federation of Students. According to an agreement signed years ago between the Federation of Students and all the faculty societies at UW, the Feds are both legally and financiallyresponsible for alt societies on campus.

Mike Suska admitted that he is concerned, and said that he would be attending the ASU Council emetgency meeting, being held in the Arts Lecture Hall at 430 p-rn~ on Tuesday, March 12.

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In February, 1393, University of Waterloo students voted to discontinue membership with CFS, a result they have yet to recognize.

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Imprint

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The former suggests the implementation of new policies that “push the pocket book,” something that Ontario cannot currently afford.

The latter suggests maintaining Ontario’s cost-effective programs and improving those that are not. This is where the focus of Elliott’s ministry currently lies.

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n these rough economic times, the Ministry of the Environment and Energy has chosen to be a ministry of balance. According to Minister of the Environment, Brenda Elliott, all ministries must “choose between being a ministry of advocacy and being a ministry of balance.”

by David

IMPRINT, Friday, March 8,1996

Dias, Melissa and Scott Morton

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hh, Reading Week. What could be a more perfect break than twelve university students heading south of the border for sun and fun?

On February l&l996 two van loads of enthusiastic young scholars made way for the U.S.A. AAer squeezing through customs, and sweet talking a smokey (State Trooper) we landed down in Zanesville, Ohio. It’s not exactly your typical vacation spot, but then, we’re not talking about your typicat university vacationers.

Yes, we are the men and women of Habitat for Humanity at University of Waterloo Campus Chapter.

These were the voyages of the second annual Collegiate Challenge for UW Chapter.

Our continuing mission.., to work in partnership with families and communities, to provide a simple decent place to live, to strive for the elimination of poverty housing. Each year, thousands of University and College students from across North Ameria give up their Reading Week in order to build in conjunction with Habitat affiliates in the US. UW and Laurier were the only two Campus Chapters within Canada to participate. We have begun plans with

Waterloo sponsored Ms. Elliott’s visit to campus on Monday night.

Students from Western, Wilfrid Laurier and Toronto were also on hand to listen to Elliott’s talk. She discussed primarily new measures that her ministry will be taking during its term in office.

She began her talk with a discussion of Ontario’s current economic position within the country.

She suggested that Ontario is be-

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Habitat Canada to arrange for Collegiate Challenge sites in our country next year.

We earned our trip to Zanesville, a town of 30,000 an hour east of Columbus, through several fund-raising projects.

Our efforts included Cider Sales at the Christmas Carol Sing-along, a Benefit Concert at the Volcano, and our Shack Attack Building Blitz in the SLC atrium.

We would like to thank our financial supporters and those volunteers who provided much needed time for organization and execution of these projects.

With the help of these efforts we were able to go to Zanesville and complete two house rehabilitation projects. At one site we helped a couple make their log-cabin more livable. By caulking the windows and walls and installing new doors we improved the energy efficiency and of the house; which is needed to warm them in the cold winter months. At the second site, we painted the entire interior and installed a wall in the basement.

Our experience with Habitat included more than this restoration.

Eating our lunches at the local soup kitchen enabled us to meet some of the community.

Four hundred meals (up to 900 in the summer months when children are not in school), are served daily at this establishment.

We also had the op-

portunity to see some sites and check out the night life (karaoke and bowling).

The community also supported us in our work. Our accommodations were in a local church and we got support from local restaurants for food and the fire station for clean-up.

Work in Canada will include projects the Waterloo Region when salvage operations will get under way in March.

At salvage sites volunteers will be able to vent their f?ustrations in the de-construction of condemned buildings.

The reuseable materials will be sold at the Habitat Re-Store with proceeds going to other Habitat projects. We also plan to send some volunteers to Samia in the second half of March to assist with a home renovation there.

In the summer months, Habitat’s work will pick up significantly.

The Waterloo Region affiliate will be working on three builds and volunteers will be needed. You can contact us to get involved in any of these projects (call Scott at 8941869, or email sdmorton@artsu2).

REMEMBER! ! ! ! ! ! ! Habitat offers you the opportunity to gain experience and friendship while working with communities to break the poverty cycle. The best thing is that NO EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED! Just bring your ENTHUSIASM!

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hind all other provinces.

These are sombre times, she said, and tough decisions are being made daily.

Critics ofthe government claim that the seemingly extremist cuts are terrible mistakes that cannot be rectified.

On the contrary, says Elliott, residents of Ontario must have confidence that their government is doing all the right things; things that have needed to be done for a long time now. Instead, Ontarions must have hope.

The PC’s of Ontario are making cuts only to set the stage for job creation in the future. Their goal is to create a climate in which businesses want to invest. Elliott suggested that her party will be the first one to do exactly what it promised during its election campaign.

Ontario currently spends one million more than it makes every hour. By the end of their term in government, the PC’s will have, Elliott suggests, balanced the debt.

Her ministry’s goal then, Elliott says, is to find an economically beneficial reason for being environmentally friendly.

This goal will be met by making it easier for businesses to abide by environmental regulations, while at the same time ensuring the protection of Ontario’s soil, water and air.

Traditionally, the Ministry of the Environment has focussed its efforts on waste reform. Throughout this term im office, Elliott hopes that her ministry’s repertoire of issues dealt will increase.

She plans to deal with issues such as smog level, global warning, the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect.

And, they will deal with these issues while simultaneously reducing the finds being used.

Elliott admits that changes will need to be made. Her ministry may no longer provide services that it has provided in the past. Some of these responsibilities may pass to privately owned business.

She is quick to assure, however, that privatization is lnot the only answer.

Many other solutions are also being discussed.

Ontario rnust strike a balance between the need to maintain its reputation for environmental excellence and the financial ability of businesses to meet this need. Certainly, the province may experience some rough spots in achieving this balance, but Elliott claims that there is no need to worry. After all, the PC government “does believe in democracy.”

Perhaps then, it is having confidence in the democratic ideal that will solve the province’s economic problems.

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NO COLUMN THIS WEEK The graphic that was to accompany our column this week got pulled by the Imprint on production night - so we pulled our column.

The graphic was a mock ad that we originally wanted to run by itself, but we were told that no free ads are allowed and it needed to be put into “context.”

However, the ad - which was a spoof ad of a paid

ated” newspaper?

In fact, the Imprint self-censored.

The advertiser had no knowledge of our spoof ad and made no threats to withdraw its business, yet the interests of the advertiser took priority nonetheless.

Last week, the Imprint protected a tobacco company’s right to “free speech’*’ by running a profitable full-page ad. Apparently, this

Imprint isn ‘t living to its mission. business ad that appears regularly in the Imprint -was just too controversial for the Imprint to run and they refused to print it. It was okay if our column was full of text that critiqued advertising, but no spoof ads, especially of Imprint advertisers.

How is it that any advertiser can influence the editorial content of this “student owned and oper-

up

week free speech is denied in order to protect Imprint revenue.

If our student newspaper was created by students to provide an unencumbered forum to facilitate free thinking., the imprint isn’t living up to its mission.

Mock ads are meant to provoke, not profit.

Unfortunately, provocation of commerce is not permitted.

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by Shannon Cuny special to Imprint

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n the spring of 1988 the R.S. Dorney Ecology Garden was created as a memorial to the late Robert Domey, a longtime professor in the school of Urban and Regional Planning at UW. This garden, which is situated next to Environmental Studies 1 reflects Dorney’s interest in the creation of natural habitats and ecosystems as

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the blackflies. it incorporates elements of a Carolinian woodland, Savannah ecotone and a tall grass prairie community, Bird feeders and houses were installed to attract birds to the garden. Paths are composed of interlocking paving stone and provide easy access to the center of the garden where benches for sitting are placed. A memorial Japanese kami stone sculpture depicting a ruffed grouse establishes a cultural

garden

component while invoking Dr. Dorney ’ s thesis which evaluated the ecology of this bird.

Six years have passed since the creation of the garden which is considered by many to be an “outstanding success.” The garden provides a quiet place to relax and meet with others, surrounded by beautiful and diverse plants and the animals they attract.

The R.S. Dorney Ecology Garden can now be viewed on the web at: http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/ vrynnime/domey2/domey 1.

The Domey Garden Committee has developed a plan for a new Ecology Garden representing the communities of Ontario’s north which will extend to the west along the front of ES-2.

The garden will contain a stone council ring which will provide a central sitting area. Incorporated into this area will be a small pond with various aquatic plants. A meadow area will gradually grade into a larger area representing a Northern Ontario forest. Wheelchair accessible paths will provide access to the garden which will also be well lit at night for security purposes. Check out the garden designs on the 41rEB at http:// www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u! vrynnime/domey2/d2intro.html A list of plant species to be incorporated into the garden is also being developed and will evolve with the design of the garden. As with the previous garden, the plants will come from a variety of sources including donations.

Much work remains to be done in order to get the new garden underway.

One of the first major tasks involves finding large erratic rocks and dolostone blocks and transporting them to campus. These

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rocks will be placed along the periphery of the council ring to give it its initial form. Cobblestone or flagstone is also needed to form the council ring floor and to form the paths. Drawings of the garden design are now posted - in ES-273 1st floor display cases - (inside the ES-2 entrancejust offringroad).

A public information meeting will be he!d Monday March 1 I, at 12100 noon in the ES courtyard to introduce the plans with a short

presentation.

Come to the meeting and volunteer your time to the garden! The Domey Garden Committee always welcomes volunteers.

Your help could be used in many ways -from fundraising to the planting of* the garden!

Please contact Larry Lamb at 888-4567 ext (2646) or Shannon Curry (‘project coordinator) at S868 157 or sdmcurry@cousteau for more information.

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One of the main diff&lties about looking at these numbers is that it is very hard to tell from them how well you, the student, is being served by co-op. I mean, sure the Co-op Department matched 46.4% of students and that translates into an impressive sounding 1,094 jobs, but what about the quality of these jobs? What if half of those jobs

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So the Co-op Department matched 46.4% of students. Does that mean they were successful?

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be very easy to point at the number and say that, ‘Well look, placement rates went up by lO%, co-op must be doing a good job’. Almost as easy as it would be to say the next year, ‘Well look, placement rates went down by IO%, the economy must be terrible.’ The point is that there is no game plan and the Department lacks a clear, measurable goal. What kind of placement rates should co-op be getting? Does the quality of the job matter or is the Co-op Department just looking for sheervolume?

These questions need to be answered.

Students Advising Co-op is trying to get some of these answers.

SAC is currently working on a coop ‘report card’ that will try to answer the question of how co-op should measure success. The report card will grade the Department on how well it is doing in a variety of areas, from the effectiveness of co-ordinators to the quality of the jobs students get.

If you would like to help SAC get answers to these questions, we meet every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in Needles Hall room 1030.

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Ahhh... another 1oveIy week sailing the good ship Imprint. Seven days ago yours truly was just a wilful apologist - a dupe, if you will - for the tobacco industry.

According to some, as of today I’m also complicit in murder.

Okay, that’s last week’s “crisis.”

Old news.

I’ll be damned, though, if I ain’t being fingered this week as another dupe, this time as a patsy for the automobile industry. Seems I won’t be satisfied until the atmosphere is completely polluted with smoke and exhaust fumes.

The finger-pointing this time comes from WPIRG, the Waterloo Public Interest Kcsearch Group (italics are mine.) Read their non-column on page 6 of this week’s issue; their noses are out of joint because I refused to run we of their A&usfers-style mock ads. I find this sad and ironic. Sad, because WPIRG gives you only one version of events, and it’s a misleading version at best. Ironic, because WPIRG runs a “Propaganda Watch,” but fails in ever turning the same magnifying glass onto their own transparent agenda.

WPIRG came to me about three weeks ago with an idea to run a full-page back-cover ad mocking Mazda, one of our advertisers. I told them that Imprint wasn’t in the business of giving away free ads, but that they were welcome to pay for the space themselves. They refused, saying that this was editorial cleverly veiled as a graphic. I proposed instead a

feature on advertising

and “Culture

Jamming,‘* their cutesy handle for “fucking shit up,” my rationale being that university students are by-and-large a reasonably literate lot, and that I wasn’t in the business of giving every writer here space to run articles in 72-point type just because it has “greater impact.” In essence, their demand presented a slippery slope: if I started giving away free ads to an organization that receives u student fee, every organization on campus, especially those far less endowed than WPIRG, would be making equal demands.

My personal feelings aside, WPIRG’s ad also violated copyright and trademark infringements in at least three places. Did WPIRG have permission to use these

trademarks? No, they responded. Would they be willing to soak up our legal costs?

No, they responded. Did they have enough evidence against Mazda to single them out as a particularly lethal agent of the auto

industry?

No, they responded. Did it

matter that Mazda is a Japanese corporation? No. What then, I asked, is Mazda’s

crime that they be exclusively singled out for this treatment? WPIRG’s answer: they advertise in Imprint.

Sorry, but I’m not in the habit of editorially shitting on advertisers for the lame reason that they advertise with us.

WHRG claims that we are censors and failing in our mission. Fact: WPIRG

has run over 100 columns of volatile

material in Imprint; and yet their articles have never been censored. WPIRG claims that we treat advertisers with velvet gloves. They’d do well to ask some of our other customers like MediaServ and Food Services if they feel the same way.

WPIRG claims that their motive for the mock ads is “to increase media literacy,” but their application of an “unencumbered forum” is nothing short of a farcical pratfall into a potential lawsuit.

Not that WPIRG cares; indeed, they expect Imprint to pick up all the costs.

Clearly, WPIRG has a limp mandate as an educator of media literacy when they are so blithely ignorant of standard media law and practices.

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question: Does opposition to U.S. foreign policy make one evil?

AX When considering Fidel Castro, President of Cuba since 1959, the Government of the United States has consistently answered yes to this question. If this logic holds true, however, then a significant number of Canadian citizens, not to mention the Government of Canada, are “evil” by definition.

Our ‘“evil” government is currently in the process of mustering international support for opposition to the recently fast-tracked Helms Bill, a piece of legislation that will tighten the trade embargo on Cuba, and punish international corporations that continue to deal with the Castro government.

Therefore, international organizations such as the Caribbean Commonwealth - a trade organization representing fourteen English speaking states - and the European Community, are, when subjected to the logic employed by the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress, also “evil. ” In fact, until last week one might have questioned the moral integrity of President Bill Clinton, who had consistently voiced opposition to the Helms Bill.

But Mr. Clinton has realised that re-election is more important than moral integrity, and has begun to mend his ways. With “evil” such as this all around us, it is a wonder that the world continues to turn.

What is more frustrating, however, is that very few people ever question the basic premise of the logic applied by Senator Jesse

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at Contextualization Helms and the U.S. Congress.

In 1959, after nearly a century of intermittent civil war and revolution, the Cuban people threw off the yoke of foreign control, and became a truly independent nation. Over the next five years, the Government of Cuba - a Communist government - nationalised all utility companies and transportation systems, established a system of socialised medicine (not unlike our own), guaranteed the rights of workers, eliminated illiteracy, and guaranteed free access to primary, secondary and post-secondary education. In order to finance these initiatives the govemment of Cuba was forced to establish strong links with the now defunct Soviet Union. In essence, the USSR made a commitment to purchase Cuba’s entire quota of sugar, the island’s main export good, at prices that exceeded average world-market prices. The Cuban sugar quota had once, as was the case with many things Cuban, been controlled by the United States government.

One could recite how the U.S. government had dominated Cuban domestic policy between 1898 and 1959, but the sources are out there, so one should not bore readers with yet another lesson in history. Suffice it to say that U.S. domination of Cuba ended in 1960.

The agreement between Cuba and the USSR allowed the Cuban government to transform their national infrastructure and raise Cuba’s standard of living to one considered the highest in the acknowledged third world. Nonetheless, one must analyze why

Cuba moved towards affiliation with the USSR. In a nutshell, the trade embargo imposed upon Cuba by the U.S. government in the early 1960s forced this scenario. Castro needed to guarantee a market for Cuban sugar in order to finance his plans to transform Cuban society. A trade agreement with the United States, Cuba’s natural trading partner (the island lies a mere 90km off the coast of Florida), might also have achieved this end. But Washington chose the hardline in an attempt to remain in control. The agreement between Ca.stro and the USSR guaranteed Cuba’ s future.

To be fair, one must add that the Castro government committed many acts that were considered a threat to Washington.

One might also add that these actions transpired at the height of the Cold War. Castro had expropriated the private holdings of many American (and British, Canadian, Spanish, French, etc., etc.) corporations and private citizens.

One could also explain that the profits from most of these holdings -- agricultural lands, utility companies, railroads, banks, hotels, sugar refineries, etc, - were channelled out of Cuba and into the United States, leaving most of Cuban society with little more than the ability to work for subsistence-level wages in occupations that were: often at the mercy of seasonal fluctuations.

But one should not bore anyone with these minute details -- again, the record Ciontinued

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Imprint welcomes letters to the editor from students and all members of the community. Letters should be 500 words or less, typed and double-spaced or in electronic form, and have the author’s name, signature, address and phone number for verification. Letters received via electronic mail must be verified with a signature. All material is subject to editing for brevity and clarity. The editor reserves the right to refuse to publish letters or articles which are judged to be libellous or discriminatory on the basis of gender. race, religion or sexual orientation. Opinions expressed are those of the individuals and not of Imprint.

Election controversy To the Editor, After having read the article “Election Controversy”

by David Drewe in the March 1st Imprint, I feel compelled to express my concern regarding the decision passed down by the Board of Directors with regard to an appeal made by Mark Ferrier in the 1996 Federation of Students Elections.

My concern is much greater than simply holding Mark Ferrier responsible for someone campaigning on his behalf. My concern is deeply rooted in the actions of the Board of Directors and the judgement they rendered in what was potentially a very volatile situation. The Board of Directors made a decision based upon the word of both Mark Ferrier and the complainant. Unfortunately. that is all the evidence they had to go on. No concrete proof either for or against Mark Ferrier’s case was presented, the Election Committee had made no significant effort to investigate the complaint, and the Board, towards the end of their meeting, seemed all too willing to make a decision based on a very weak understanding of the circumstances surrounding the campaign violation in question. The minutes of the meeting document a desire on the part of many members to further investigate.

However, the motion to do so was soon withdrawn out of a concern that such an investigation would be perceived as a lack of faith in the Federation’s policies.

However, in such a close electoral race, 1 believe that the Board of Directors should have postponed their decision pending further investigation.

Did Mark solicit this individual to campaign on his behalf? Did one of Mark’s running mates solicit the individual?

Did one of Mark’s opponents solicit the campaigning?

In such a close race, these questions should not have only been posed, but fully answered before any j udgement was rendered.

It is not only my belief, but also that of many other fee-paying members of the FEDS, that this Board of Directors decision demonstrates a blatant neglect of their supposed responsibility to act and serve in the best interest of students. The minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting themselves indicate a strong sentiment of uncertainty among its members, and I simply cannot understand how student representatives could make such acrucial decision without being completely confident that the decision they were making was the best one possible. Only two members of the Board of Directors voted to decide in favour of waiving the 7.5% fine.

That is, only 28.5% of the Board of Directors overruled a decision previously made by 60% of the Election Committee, thegoverning body of Elections and By-Elections.

It is evident, then, that the five abstaining members of the Board had either a reasonable doubt, or a sig-

nificant conflict of interest regarding the situation, resulting in the Board making what is a seemingly weak decision, This is only a disservice to the whole electoral process, but more importantly to the students at large at the University of Waterloo.

I strongly question the decision of the Board of Directors, not only because I was defeated by Mr. Ferrier in the elections, but also because the Federation of Students is an organization in which I once had great faith. I have always been a strong advocate of effective student representation on our campus, and this recent decision by the Board of Directors has demonstrated how easily our elected representatives, both executive and council members, compromise the essential values and beliefs upon which the organization operates. In a postelection letter to Imprint, Mike Suska advised incoming executives to “check their egos at the door.” It is clear to me that in this case, our representatives have taken their egos with them and left their spines be hind.

-Chris McGtuth 43 French Studies

Tobacco To the Editor, My opinion as a faculty member on whether the student newspaper Imprint newspaper should can-y tobacco advertising is irrelevant, I am concerned, though, about your worry that not accepting such ads would be “censoring” the tobacco industry.

The tobacco industry is powerful and diversified.

They own the pharmacy I sometimes shop at and they own the bank into which my paycheque is deposited. They have many legal ways of making their presence felt. You need not worry about silencing them.

The Supreme Court struck down the ban on tobacco advertising because it was too restrictive.

The legislation is currently being redrafted to make it as restrictive as possible while adhering tothe Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

There is clear government intent to restrict tobacco advertising.

In the temporary vacuum caused by the absence of new legislation, the tobacco industry announced a program of limited advertising.

As part of that, Imprint has been offered ads. Whether this will be permitted under the new legislation is open to question.

Even if tobacco advertising and sales are legal, that does not mean you are obliged to accept a tobacco ad. It is perfectly legal under the Charter and the Ontario Human Rights Code to discriminate against the tobacco industry by refusing to accept their ads.

The harm that tobacco does is not open to question. Unlike beer and liquor, it has no positive effects when used in moderation; indeed,

it can kill when used in moderation. Were it introduced to the marketplace today as a new product, it would immediately be banned.

Imprint’s Board of Directors should ask themselves whether the harm done by accepting tobacco ads outweighs the good. If the answer is yes, they should refuse to run ads in the future.

While the opinion of your readers is not always paramount in editorial decisions (much to the benefit of your Arts section), I look forward to hearing their views on this matter.

-Drabhakar Computer

of people to whom young teenaged people look up. Those lifestyles are made real by what young readers see in papers like the Imprint.

For the health of all students, especially those Warrior and Athena wannabes, please halt publication of further tobacco ads. I encourage all students who disagree with editorial policy of printing such ads, to request a refund on their Imprint fee.

-Steve

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Tobacco ads #2 To t/w Editor, As a UW alumnus and current staff member at UW who still occasionally browses Imprint, the appearance of a tobacco company ad last Friday disappointed me. Your decision to defend the placement of the ad in your column “The Rambler” at least raises the issue of the morality of the ad, legal issues aside.

You compare running alcohol industry ads with tobacco industry ads. The fact is, taken in moderation, alcohol does not kill. Tobacco does.

We know that social influences are the predominant factors in new smokers decision to start. These influences include the “lifestyles”

Manske

To the Editor, As a member of the UW community I was very disappointed to see the advertisement for “Export A Smooth” in the most recent edition of the Imprint.

I have read your editorial and sympathize with the struggle you have had in sorting out the ethics of this situation.

I would like to suggest some reasons for NOT running the ads.

1) Unlike alcohol (which you point out is advertised in the Imprint), there is no safe level of consumption for tobacco. Cigarettes contain toxic substances -period.

2) Just because the govemment has not yet gathered the political means to ban the advertisement of tobacco, is not justification to print the ads. A university paper should lead, not follow. Your paper contributes to the environment on campus. In this enlightened envi-

ronment we should not be supporting the use of a substance that is KNOWN to harm both users and those exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.

3) Allowing the advertising adds to the subtle message that smoking is an acceptable practice in our society. I am sympathetic to those who are addicted to nicotine, but we should not even hint that smoking is <apractice that is desirable or even acceptable.

I hope that you receive many letters from students who do not support the advertisement of tobacco products.

I also hope that if you continue to run the ads that many students will seek reimbursement for the money on their student fee statement for the Imprint.

Please excercise your right to refuse advertising and discontinue the ads for tlobacco.

-M~ri

Alice John

Tolbacco ads #4 To the Editor, I find the inclusion of tobacco advertisement in the latest issue of Imprint to be a ridiculous decision.

It may well bring in cash for Imprint.

However, Imprint has produced quality material without funds from tobacco advertising, and there should be no reason to change that.

Please drop the ads in future issues. They are unnecessary.

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As UW alumni, and an employee of the university in the faculty of Applied Health Sciences, I was dismaye:d to see your full page advertisement for Export ‘A’ Smooth cigarettes.

In Dave Fisher’ s column “The Rambler,” he states his reasons, as Editor, for running the ad. I am particularly alarmed by the statement “I don’t like the advertising, but I don’t feel good about censoring the tobacco industry’s right to advertise.”

The tobacco industry knowingly, and forcefully markets a known addictive substance which is known to cause cancer. True, every smoker does not die of lung cancer or heart disease, but even Mr. Fisher acknowledges “.. .as most of us are well aware tobacco is a killer.”

Many products are not advertised in Imprint.

Does this mean Mr. Fisher is censoring those companies’ right to advertise?

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They have finally succeeded at creating workable questions that satisfy all departments’s needs.

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-Wendy

The debate continues To the Editor, My first letter to Imprint was to counter Mr. A.twal’s faulty article about a debate. The letter presented arguments of the debate in a fadtual and logical way, expanded wherenecessary.

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speaks for itself. The Cuban government eliminated these disparities, and provided citizens with an amount of stability previously unknown. The people of Cuba never got rich, but they were given access to some of. the most innovative social programs in the world, and could boast a daily caloric intake higher than many nations in what we call “the western democratic world.”

These accomplishments could not have been achieved without forging trade and political partnerships with Eastern Bloc nations.

Yet, for this reason Cuba has been branded “evil” ever since.

So where does this leave us in 1996? Cuba is still here despite the U.S. trade embargo, originally imposed in I96 1. And Fidel Castro, at nearly 70 years of age, is still the President. Most importantly, however, is the fact that the Cuban people are still paying for their opposition to the will of Washington. Unfoflunately, the price has been high: the denial of essential goods, medicines and food stuffs, computers and other technological products - goods that have been in short supply since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now the U.S. Congress has passed legislation that will tighten the already arrtiquated

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Cuba embargo - the same IegisIation that was once moth-balled because it was considered a direct violation of international law. One is forced to consider whether anyone in Washington has ever considered why the Cuban government has never been challenged by its citizens as Cuban governments have been in the past. Why, if the Cuban people are indeed. slaves to the “regime” of Fidel Castro, has the regime not been toppled from the inside? Perhaps the reason is because the Cuban people need only look north to see: the true face of evil.

In an age when the USA has re-establishedtracle links with every other (current and/or former) Communist state on earth, one has to contemplate the cognitive abilities of those who hold the reins of power in Washington, and question why legislation such als the Helms Bill has been passed lby the U.S. Congress. This is the context within which I frame the current situation in Cuba; the rhetoric coming out of Washington is not only out of touch with reality, but is downright sinister. If opposition to U.S. foreign policy does, indeed, constitute the greatest of all evils - then count me in.

-John

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other “Ad hominem” fallacies where he attacked DrCraig with empty innuendos wholly irrelevant to the issues at hand. But since Mr. Prior has proceeded to follow suit, he and others, not yet knowing any better, may learn something valuable.

What is said in no way discounts either Atwal’s or Prior’s abilities; it is to correct problems with how talents can be misapplied.

(Both Atwal and Prior raised interesting points and they deserved a reply which I gave briefly.) So this critique is for the general benefit of all who want to argue properly (even if it may be to my disadvantage).

About the only time one questions a person’s character is if it has a bearing on their ability to be trustworthy.

By knowing the consistency of someone’s past performance, prediction of a similar pattern is made in a new situation.

It is an inductive method with a statistical probability.

However, we cannot know absolutely that the future acts of a person will follow past patterns. People are far less predictable than physical events.

What makes the attack on an individual a fallacy is the fact that it avoids dealing with the issue at hand and diverts attention to “redherrings.”

When someone has nothing useful to say and insists they are right and the other wrong, the tendency is to get loud, mock, call names, or worse. Worse still is the case where the accused is branded falsely and contrary to his normal character. Imagine calling Isaac Newton an ignoramus because he did not know quantum

theory and so his physics was alI wet, and that he was plainly “outofLit” for he believed in God! While Mr. Prior’s use of the “Ad hominem” fallacy is readily forgivable since he is a freshman, Mr.Atwal’s employment is less so, for he has studied some philosophy and shouldknow better. Also, Atwal should not display this fallacious style so blatantly in a public forum that influences others. For example, Atwal made the astonishing association of Dr. Craig’s coming from the Atlanta area, the “biblebelt,” to the consequence that Dr. Craig could not be a serious philosopher!

Mr. Prior at least started admirably well. I thought he might rejoin with a more subsbntial evolutionary explanation.

But instead of continuing in the earlier vein of stating his position with some arguments, he got side-tracked with things I neither wrote nor which could be rightly deduced from it.

Firstly, I reiterated that the subject was about the rational plausibility of God; this was not a proof.

I did not claim to have all the answers, just that some answers are reasonable, some questionable, and others not answers at all. I gave arguments for what made and did not make sense. The point was to find out what was reasonable and why, not just because it was assumed true - and this was (and is) for everyone and everything.

A refutation of Mr. Prior’s two first claims was not a dismissal out of hand. Further, I denied the comparison of parasites (and predation etc.) with extreme human evils, for they did not match up in details. I stated Pantheism was a lousy idea and not some of his arguments, even if some were weak or wrong.

FORUM I also presented some basic logical reasons why Pantheism was a “nonstarter.” I suggested where to verify this short claim.

(For my long justification of why Pantheism is nonsensical, Mr. Prior will have to wait patiently until the fall, after I get some other work done.) If anything, Prior’s questions were not ignored, even if they were not completely answered.

Now for Prior’s “Ad hominems” and other errors: I believe in a flat earth (?! Never did.

I doubt Prior knows anyone who does,); I do not have an open mind (I happen to change ideas about lots of things - when convinced by good reasons... or threatened by my wife!), I have a cloistered little church view of life (Me?! . . No, he must be referring to someone else.); I do not analyze my beliefs (I thought 1 was being too philosophical and analytical, not too little. My! How silly of me to think that God may actually have been a reasonable explanation.); my arguments are circular (Was it that I argued from the fact of the finely tuned nature of all existence that makes things look engineered, and long before it could get to the stage of survival and variations?); I spew out typical religtous rigamarole {It is not rigamarole but clearly important, not typical, nor spewed out, but presented reasonably and critically J. Contrary to Prior’s contentions, my views were partly due to having thought considerably about them. Also, my background was, in many ways, the opposite of Mr. Prior%. Almost everything in my letters have argued, by way of fact and reasoning, that there are excellent indications for a Creator, while other theories have some severe

13 defects and so are not closed cases.

Due to current time pressures, writing to adequately explain this alternate position is limited, even if editorially possible. Mr. Prior is welcome, as any serious person, to get my ext. number from you, the editor, so as to talk easily and amicably.

-Allen

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A note of gratitude To the Editor In a rime where economic hardships are becoming more and more a part of our everyday lives, it is extremely meaningful when someone puts their misfortunes aside for the benefit of others.

Recently, a highly respected member of the University of Waterloo faculty has been laid-off as a result of the major funding cuts by the provincial government with respect to the education system.

Kim Elliott, head of the pho-

tography depatiment, whom I have only personallly known since January 1996, is an exceptional teacher who has devoted many years to the faculty of Environmental Studies.

In my four years at the University of Waterloo, I have never experienced a professor who is so passionate about what he has to teach his students.

The purpose of this letter is not only to draw alttention to the unfair results of gove:mment cutbacks, but to commend Kim on his professional handling of the situation has been presented with. As of Monday February 2’6, Kim was no longer considered a member of the faculty of UW. However, without pay, he is fulfilling his commitment to his students of ENV S 252 by finishing off his term. I for one, would no longer be graduating in April if he did not consider his students, as the UW decision makers obviously did not.

I would like to publicly thank Kim for this extremely generous act. We will miss your presence in the EMIC studio and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

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I’ve received my fair share of praise for the grumblings, rants and questions under the banner I hate my generation, for exploring issues that this generation might actually have some real concerns about, and for providing semi-balanced views on those particular matters. I’ve also heard the opposite reaction to comments that I’ve made here. That’ s understandable, and although the criticisms thus far have been limited to a mere few, I can guess that those people are not alone.

This past week a student approached me about a column I had written, and told me how it enraged them that I could write what I did.

This student also told me that many people feel that they can’t approach writers at Imprint, or even write letters for fear of being attacked in print.

This student wasn’t the first person to voice that concern. Perhaps the common conclusion people come to is that they feel they must pick their battles, and that Imprint writers obviously won’t listen, so it’s not worth trying. Such opinions should be directed at hack

writers like myself. The media, no matter how insignificant, must be accountable.

I personally would encourage the feedback, only because the criticism would make me a better writer, enlighten my reflection of public feelings and, more importantly, make Imprint and myself an accountable source of views and facts.

Writing a column every week isn’t as glamourous as it may appear. I only started publishing my opinions because I’ve got some, and the experience is enjoyable. I also thought I had something to offer students (my generation) and the public by trying to examine the things that I’m cynical about.

I’ve never boasted about “being right” or saying that “such and such” is the absolute, only way of thinking about something.

I suspect that most people outside of the media aren’t as cynical as I am, but I would hope that people would read what I write and question it, as I question various issues.

The fact that a student brought forward some concerns about my column and Imprint is not the motivating factor for writing this column. I’ve recently been digging into James Fallows’ latest book,

Breaking The News: Huw the Media Undermines American Democracy, which focuses on the big “money-making” journalists stationed in Washington.

Although the book primarily explores wellknown media figures like Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, the issues that Fallows brings up are the same at all levels of media.

Issues such as journalistic responsibility, the question of whether various media reflect public opinion, and (the kicker) whether or not the media decides the public’s political leaders are only a few of Fallows’ concerns. The criticisms that Fallows addresses are worthwhile issues that even college scribes like myself can learn from or at least should recognize+ Although I can’t speak for everyone, I don’t want people to think that CriticizingImprint, or the people that write for Imprint, is going to make you the victim of a future attack. Your letters, your comments, your opinions and your criticisms may not always effect the change you want, but ultimately, it will always succeed more often than not writing and not voicing your opinion.

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n light of the solid mass of that numerous busievidence ness multinationals are behaving disgracefully with respect to human rights, labour and environmental concerns in many locations around the globe, is globalization an elitist capitalist hoax? I believe that it is.

I also believe that there are a number of socially constructive reasons for excluding business corporations found to be violating these standards from Canadian markets.

Fiscally, Canada has been brought to its knees by “trade liberalization,” the siren call of the political right. In 1995 6.8 per cent of federal annual tax revenues were derived from Canadian business corporations and government business enterprises (GBEs). In 1984 when Mulroney became Prime Minister this figure was 18% of annual federal tax revenues. It has also been suggested that tax loopholes, breaks and tax expenditures currently cost the Canadian Treasury some $90 billion per year in ‘*tax leakage.”

This regressive tax structure, which is the legacy of the Michael Wilson stint at finance,

and which in grand Orwellian doublespeak style, was sold to the Canadian people as being more fair and progressive, is the nexus of our current fiscal woes. (Unless you can call screwing the poor, the middle and working classes, and starving the national treasury of tax revenues - while business multinationals and the rich embark upon a decade or two of a veritable tax holiday - fair and progressive.)

While a handful of Canadian billionaires make out like bandits as global deregulation in the name of “free trade” has been implemented, the middle and working classes around the globe face shrinking opportunities and increasingly uncertain employment prospects as globalization mercilessly exerts its downward pressures upon living standards and social program spending. Is this imbalance, where the rich elites become more comfortable and secure while everybody else faces growing fear and uncertainty, acceptable in a democracy? The French Revolution was based upon a similar elitist drift whereby the aristocracy did very well while everyone else was left to

worry about both regressive taxation and where their next meal was coming from. While there is bread in Canadian markets, good quality food is, in all too many instances, simply out of reach for a growing number of Canadians.

Insofar as the shareholders of business corporations profit from human misery, abuse, fear and uncertainty, I believe most Canadians would agree that this behaviour should be punished, and not endlessly promoted through lopsided gIobal trade agreements that seem to do nothing more than enhance opportunities for corporate criminal behaviour.

In this respect globalization can be viewed as hindering the true progress of humanity, and can be seen as a form of western economic imperialism that is eerily reminiscent of the British Empire. Fair trade must be the goal of enhanced trade, and not simply free trade, which all too often serves as a euphemism to legitimize abuse of the human rights of women, children and men around the planet.

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The first thing that caught my eye was the title, “Open letter to members of the Canadian Federation of Students.”

I’m not sure why they sent it to UW, I mean as I said Last week, we’re not members. But that was last week. I’m not going to get into all of that crap again.

What really pissed me off though, was the CFS assertion that their “National Day of Action” was “a success by all accounts.”

Right.

Sure.

At Queen’s Park the rally caused $20,000 worth of damage.

People were injured.

If CFS considered that “a success by all accounts,” then I wonder how they’d describe the Los Angeles riots after the Rodney King verdict.

“Successful beyond all expectations!” maybe?

How would they describe the violence in Montreal after the Canadians won the Stanley Cup? They might say that, “their message as students [substitute: hockey fans] is getting out.”

CFS asks rhetorically in their press release, “If governments do not see visible signs of opposition, why would they ever change their direction?”

Well, if governments are doing something that is so obviously wrong, and someone explained to

them why it was wrong, perhaps they’d change their direction.

Unfortunately, CFS is less dedicated to causing change than it is to maintaining its own existence. CFS national meetings spend the majority of plenary time debating the internal structure of the organization, rather than looking for new ways to help students and universities. Well, actually, that’s not quite true. From the meeting I attended, it seemed that more time was spent debating technicalities of Robert’s Rules of Order than anything eke.

According to CFS, their day of action, “proved that students coming together to show they are opposed to cutbacks in education and increases in tuition fees does make a difference.”

They left this judgement unsubstantiated, but there wasn’t much else they could do, because the sltatement is clearly false.

The truth is that Mike Harris has not changed direction by a fraction of a degree:. There’s no reason why he would. After the CFS-run farce, and the accompanying publicity, public sympathy could only drop.

Picture someone watching the news that niglht, seeing students upset about tuition, trashing Queen’s Park to the point where charges where laid, vandalism occur-red, and people were injured. I fail to see how anyone with half a brain could honestly believe that an objective viewer would gain sympathy for our cause.

Probably, though, CFS knows this. They’re not stupid. I think they’re just dishonest.

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Kilchenerstudentreturnfaresto: Do you think Imprint has too many opinions ? Too many arrogant columnists who seem to get their kicks out of spewing their personal agendas onto these pages week after week? Count your blessings.

Recently, some friends of mine asked me to write a column on the fact that at their university paper, there are no serious opinions represented at all. I looked through several issues of their paper, and they’re right. l must admit that I was a little surprised.

Actually, I was more than surprised. 1 was scornful. A university paper is the ideal place to spout off (that is one of a university paper’s main functions) and I can’t understand students not taking advantage of this.

Anyway, I looked around. I went through university papers from across the country, and you know what I found? Dick all! While there are plenty of papers that have definite slants (more slanted left than right), there are virtually no writers out there actually willing to get to the point, state their case clearly and concisely, and maybe take some flack.

For the most part, most papers simply present a lot fewer opinions than Imprint.

Many papers have a spot for an editorial, written by the Editor or another member of the editorial board, and perhaps one or

two regular columns. In comparison, Imprint currently has four regular columns, and reserves the space under the Lefcourt cartoon for any member of the university community to have their opinions prominently displayed.

And what few opinions other papers present, are, for the most part, either dull or stupid (not that I’m saying everything in Imprint is absolutely brilliant). I’ve read far too many opinion pieces in student papers that strive so hard to take a pleasant, balanced, middle-of-theroad stance that they never actually end up saying anything. If you have nothing better to say that “This thing here is good, but on the other hand, I like this one too,” shut up!

A very wise man once said that the biggest crime a writer can commit is to be boring. So many of you are guilty.

And as far as stupid goes, I have been rendered speechless by the asinine columns I have seen run in some papers.

There is one paper that tries to run an opinion crossfire every week, where two people take opposing sides of an issue and the columns are placed side by side. Sounds interesting, right? Not when the topic is “Be it resolved, Smarties are better than M&M’s.”

I’m not kidding. This ran. In a university paper.

You may be tired of the reli-

gious debate that has gone on in Imprint for the last several months.

I know I am. However, again I say count your blessings. I explained the situation to the Editor of the Ryerson Eye-opener recently, and he was very envious of what we have become so tired of. He told me that the biggest debate that had occurred lately at Ryerson was started by an article that claimed that pasta wasn’t Italian. Evidently, several outraged Italians wrote in, and the pasta battle was on! Sad. I want to make it clear that I’m not blaming the papers; I’m blaming the students. There must be some people out there who care about bigger and better issues than pasta and candy! There must be some people out there that are willing to actually take a stand on a legitimate issue! There is no shortage of issues. Abortion, euthanasia, religion, university politics, the municipa1, provincial and federal government, the environment, business, etc., etc. So where are they?

Where are the people willing to stand up for what they believe in?

Where are the people willing to publicly say what they think? Are you all so insecure that you aren’t prepared to actually come out for or against something and maybe take a little criticism?

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Minority groups were punished simply for being minorities.

They were expendable. And all the while, Hitler was backed by massive public support.

In 1996, the similarities in Ontario (and elsewhere) are striking. Our charming, ~~ffdde, and charismatic leader is on a mission to “restore prosperity” to the province. And his battalion is prepared to squelch dissent anywhere it pokes its nose, through propaganda disseminated by the elitist-controlled media, or by brute force if necessary. Marginalized groups are being singled out because they are easy victims, and invisible to those in power. And support for this shattered democracy is widespread.

How often we hear rabid supporters hypocritically spout that demonstrating against democratically elected officials who are doing what they said they would, should not be tolerated!

Perhaps we should be trying to listen to the dissenting view rather than suppressing them out of ignorance or fear, Many are already enlightened enough to do so. Others, children of the media, have yet to see beyond the populist propaganda and rhetoric. If dissent was not crushed ruthlessly in Germany sixty years ago, the world may have been a very different place.

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It’s called something you bargaining -should learn yourself by the time you buy a car or a house. Besides, do you think the government’s demands are any more reasonable?

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Did Barbie ever get PMS? Did she ever feel crampy and bloated? Did she ever crave more chocolate even though her face was filled with menstrual pimples?

Was Barbie fulfilled? Did she feel loved?

Was she ever used as a doormat or perhaps a punching bag? Did she have multiple orgasms? Was her lover kind and considerate when she didn’t want to put out?

Oh Barbie those firm peachy virgin thighs that every man craves. What’s up your short little size one-half skirt? Do you have

secrets my princess l&u-bie? Secrets in the closet. Perhaps Ken wasn’t your dreamboat.

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Barbie, Barbie The all American apple pie.

Barbie, Barbie You’re the star in the sky.

Let’s face it Barbie we all idolize your beauty. We want your dreamhouse, your camping trailer, your ice cream stand, and all your zillion outfits. But don’t worry sweetie I’ll set your soul free. I know it needs to be free. You want your voice heard, you want to scream, you want them to know your life long dream. Oh Barbie, sweetheart, my luscious babe, ready set in the fire you go..

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‘11 bet many people who come to our univerisity sought after knowledge in computer. Witnessing the rapid advancement in the daily changing computer market, many may think that we are winning a glorious war on computer technology.

Before we are ready to celebrate, may I humbly share my opinions on computer studies and development with you.

Not even knowing what a computer looked like, so excited that I couldn’t sleep, that was the night before my first computer class. I remember, nothing had disappointed me like the first time I touched a computer.

“SYNTAXERROR(deed!).,.

SYNTAXERROR(deed!)...

SYNTAXERROR(deed!)...”

That did it! Do all you can with what you have where you are, I got addicted to this sucker, the Apple IIe my first computer.

Part of my early training in computer is to study computer history. Almost unique in computer science, its history is never glorious.

Even now in our 4th year computer structure class (ECE 429), we laugh at the big old FPU box, attheoldCRAY, at the IBM PC. CISC sounds more like a shameful disease that we can’t even say it.

Case studies of old computers are nothing but post-mortem analysis. We can laugh at anything in computer, and if not now, we will. A “still working” ‘ 86 Tercel is just “good as new,” but a “good as new” ‘86 Apple IIe is not working.

Any yet, today is not much better than yesterday. Attempting to develop the fastest computer, old CRAY supercomputer research once stretched to the ridiculous design extremes. For example, to ensure same path delay, all the backplane wires had the exact same length; RC terminations were applied to many signals to combat signal ringing and the evil ground bounce, etc, etc. The result was a computer which used as much electricity as a small power plant could generate!

Tales of CRAY are shared and enjoyed by many, but who says these problems are solved today? Who dare to step beyond the 64 bit bus? Who dare to get a 120MHz systemclock on board? If you do, you will probably do similar things as CRAY did. Guys of Apollo 13 did the extreme and we give them a big hand, now and then. Guys of CRAY did the

extreme too, and we give them a big laugh, now and then. One deserves a movie, the other deserves bankruptcy.

Advancement on computer technology, in my opinion, is mainly and almost only driven by silicon technology.

Therefore, a computer by itself contains very little artwork, very little innovation, and few things that we can actually admire. That’s why there are fans who admire the old Mustangs, but only the fanatics will admire an old VAX mother board.

Counting solely on the advancement of silicon technology, I would say that building an outstanding computer is almost hopeless.

Alright, 0.25um, 300MHz, 2OW, SM transistors, that are more or less we can boast verbally. Once the RISC milestone is reached, all we system architects can think of are little tricks to perfect the RISC philosophy.

Multiprocessor system, on the other hand, may just be -a by-product out of iedple who are frustrated to live with a single processor.

Even the two computer giants Hennessy and Patterson admi t, “From a more pessimistic point of view, if 90% of the ideas (in multiprocessor system) disappeared no one would notice.” (H&P, Computer Architecture, 1st ed, pg. 587) Unfolding computer architecture, we immediately see the related issues in silicon technology, circuit desigin, compiler technology, programming languages, operating system, etc. So many people studied so many different areas with many discoveries, and yet so little innovations in computer design appeared. To me, it is just like one guy published a paper on how to do “l+ 1,” and another gal did a paper on “1+2,” expecting one day we will figure out how to do all the mathematics.

Deep in my mind, I worry when people will start to integrate the knowledge to discover “2*3,” wlhen creativity will kick in to open a new page in computing technology, and in the mean time, how our effort should be spent.

In conclusion, how can we build a better machine for the next generation to laugh at?

Time is running short, and we are the next on the stage of the show!

One deserves a movie, the other deserves bankruptcy?

Cheung

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by Toria Long special to Imprint

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“dramatic” increase in forest fires in Canada’s north since the 1970’s may be a result of global warming according to a University of Waterloo researcher. Professor Roger Suffling of the School of Urban and Regional Planning in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, co-authored a paper presented at an Atmospheric Environment Service Workshop in Toronto last week by Dr. Ian Thompson of the Canadian Forest Service. The research paper, partially based on Suffling’s studies of boreal forest makeup in northern Ontario, details the landscape alteration caused by forest fires.

Suffling has formulated a simulation model for predicting the mix of arboreal species in areas where fire is a significant determining factor in forest composition.

“The last two decades have seen a string of warm, dry summers in Northwestern Ontario and adjacent arcas” stated Suftling, adding “When the model is run with double preindustrial greenhouse gas concentrations being assumed to increase tire disturbance area, the output is a shift of forest zone types to north and east.” This change will impact the ecology of the region and have major consequences both for wildI ife and people.

Suffling also stated that the tripling of average annual wildfire since the 1970’s has affected Northern Ontario’s economy.

He said one good example of the economic impact of increased fire frequency and extent is the technical neces- E sity of retooling pulp mills designed to handle spruce feedstock when the local timber harvest becomes primarily aspen. The refit process means down time for the mill and temporary layoffs for workers, with subsequent loss of income for the region’s service industries.

Other economic impacts Suffling cites are cottage losses to fire and the subsequent drop in tax revenues for local municipalities.

“The whole ecology and human economy of Northern Ontario wilf be impacted if fire regimes continue to alter the distribution of vegetation zones.”

“Going west along the transect is like watching global warming taking place” Suffling observed, “the further west, the less precipitation the forest receives - both annual snow and rain receipts diminish. Thus the transect serves as an analogue of climate change.” A bird’s-eye view shows a mosaic of landscape elements from lighter-

coloured aspen and pine patches to dark spruce and fir areas. Aspen readily regenerates after t‘rre disturbance with seeds or suckers from its network of subterranean roots, according to Suffling.

Wide ranging fires occur most frequently in the wanner, drier climate of the western portion of the transect, Suffling noted. They promote new pine and aspen stands but these rarely have a chance to develop to white spruce and fTir forest before fire hits again, As Suftling points out, computer climate simulation models (GCMs) predict the largest temperature increases from “green house effect” global warming in northern latitudes. SufUing says the expected result in northern Canada is earlier springs, on average, which would mean the annual snow-free period, when the landscape is vul-

the 1940’s and 1950’s, according to Suffling. He said the 1960’s level was much higher because 196 1 saw an unusually extreme fire season which raised the long term average.

However, Suffling adds that sustained high impact levels, about 370,000 hectares per year, have been observed since 1974. “As the frequency of dry, warm years has increased dramatically since 1976, so has the incidence of severe fire years.”

Suffling’s team has also studied historical records in their investigation of factors which may contribute to decade-to-decade fluctuations in extent of forest and tundra wildfires.

Hudson’s Bay Company reveal many extreme fire seasons in the period between 17#6 dnd 1819 AD. However, the incidence of wildfire lessened considerably between 1820 and 1869.

Then, between L 1870 and 1911 there were agam many fire outbreaks consunling large tracts of timber.

This historical record leads Suffling to postulate there may be an approximately 50 year natura1 “see-saw effect” governed by causes not yet identified.

The impacts of global warming on the area will now add to the factors already at play in the natural variation in the northern boreal landscape’s vulnerability to wildfire spread and lightning storm frequency.

Suffling’s consideration of global warming as a possible cause for the average tripling of burnt forest area is supported by the work of the international climate science community.

The recognized authority is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was established in 1988 jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Envi-

Suffling’s research was directed at validating predictions made by his new “model predicting regionally dominant terrestrial vegetation in catastrophically disturbed landscapes? nerable to wildfire, is lengthened.

In addition, earlier springs mean a longer drying period for the highly flammable needle litter on the surface of the forest floor, thus increasing the likelihood of fire spread.

A ten-year running average is Suffling’s statistic of choice for wildfire research because most damage is done in the relatively few “extreme fEe seasons”- as in the spring of 1995. He went on to explain that the incendiary effect of lightning can be moderated by damp conditions on the ground.

The Northern Ontario ten-year running average for fire-swept areas maintained peak years of 100,000 hectares per year through

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ronment Programme.

The PaneI’s “Working Group I”, mandated to assess scientific information on climate change, is comprised of hundreds of working scientists from 25 countries; it published Scientific Assessments of Climate Change in 1990 and 1992.

Both state “we are certain ...that emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations ofthe greenhouse gases” and&&these increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

The Panel’s Report goes on to say that based on current model results, “regional climate changes .*. in central North America are predicted to be higher than the global mean, accompanied on average by reduced summer precipitation and soil moisture.”

The IPCC notes that the complexity of parametrization of climate change processes’ variables and the large g-rid size needed to describe the whole Earth’s surface on today’s computers mean regional forecasts cannot be made with equal certainty to global predictions.

Suffling’s research was directed at validating predictions made by his new “model predicting regionally dominant terrestrial vegetation in catastrophically disturbed landscapes.”

His results are reported in the Journal of Biography (1995:22‘).

Comparison of model output with actual stand distribution in the study area showed “the model can predict dominant vegetation. . .implying that the distribution of boreal forest biome subzones in central Canada is largely governed by fire occurrence.”

Suffling says the study transects’s western terminus is a relatively warm, dry climate, a section called “fire country” by the fiu traders, where aspen, black spruce and jack pine patches predominate.

He goes on to say that the makeup of the biome changes gradually towards the east where fewer large fires have affected the species composition in the landscape. The central area along the transect shows the greatest diversity in the boreal forest studied. At the eastern extremity, where stands often remain untouched by jfire for prolonged periods, fir andl white spruce are the dominant species.

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his Sunday, the UW Dance department will mark theend of its university degree program in dance with Swnn Songa celebration of 24 years in dance. In 1992, LJW ot‘ficials decided to phase out the program over four years due to funding cuts within the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences.

Professor Rhonda Ryman says the decision resulted in part from the dance department’s move away from an Applied Health Science focus, as well as the unfortunate timing of various staff resigning and retiring.

It bc:camc: more and more difjicult to meet student degree requirements. Numerous faculty, students, and alumni who had helped shape the unique program over two decades suffered a severe blow when administrators annouced the drastic cut.

The department has an interesting evolutionary history.

In 1964, Professor Ruth Priddle was appointed to the faculty where she began to offer courses in dance.

Three years later, Jill Officer introduced ballet classes as elective credits, and from then on, interest in dance grew. By the time current faculty member Rhonda Ryman arrived in 1975, the Department of Kinesioiogy had started offering students a Bachelor of Science degree in Dance.

At the time, the program placed a strong emphasis on kinesiology, and students took courses in science and math to prepare fi>r movement analysis and body mechanics. ‘I’he science-based structure persisted until participants began to demonstrate a growing interest in performance and dance as an art form. As a result, the type of degree earned was changed to a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. The emphasis shifted to arts courses, including history, documentation, analysis, criticism and the broader field of teaching - incorporating both arts and science requirements.

What resulted was a unique progam, unlike any other in Canada, which stressed both performance and dance theory. Students emerged with a weII-rounded experience encompassing both studio and classroom learning.

Professor Rhonda Ryrnan says this factor greatly enriches the program, allowing students to reflect on what they’ve done in the studio in a formal academic setting.

Since its early days, the department has focused on both dance education and performance.

Theov and practical lab work have constituted its structure, and shortly after her. arrival, Professor Ruth Priddle opened Carousel Dance C’cnter as a lab for her academic ~‘ourses in teaching dance to children.

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Ballet School teacher training program.

The department has prepared over 250 graduates for careers in the fields of dance therapy, education, choreography, performance, criticism, administration and dance for actors and skaters. Students have taken courses in dance technique, history, choreography, education, appreciation, notation, movement analysis, and anatomy for dancers.

Over the years, guest artists have taught courses and master classes. The department has welcomed names including leading Canadian choreographer Danny Grossman, Toronto Dance Theatre’s David Earle, Royal Winipeg Ballet’s Svea Eklof, Balanchine dancer Joysannr Sidimus, modem dance choreographer Lawrence Gradus, National Dance specialist Anushka Roes and dance historian Janet W ason.

Canada’s first prima ballerina, Lois Smith, was me of the depurt-

ment’s earliest f~lculty member;.

Numerous other events and initiatives have fostered the departmerit’s success throughout its existence. -4t one time, students had the chance to experience a stream in ethnology, with opportunities to

of elegance. learn Caribbean and Native Canadian dances.

The department has hosted two international notation seminars with specialists coming from Europe and Australia to share their knowledge.

Former chair Jill Officer initiated Renaissance dance courses for the general public, and dancers have collaborated with early music makers on campus.

For much of its history, the department has held an informal showing each fall, an event which allows the public to observe students’ works in progress, and in turn gives students a chance to try out their choreography in a friendly setting. The major annual event has always been the spring concert, known by enthusiasts for the lrast array of innovative works from \ arioils time periods it always presents.

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each world can contribute to the other. Last year, dancers in Professor Ryman’s reconstruction course explored “Partita,” a major work created by Doris Humphrey - a key figure in American modem dance.

Until this point, the piece had been lost to all, including Mino Nicolas of the New York-based D.H. professional company.

Last year, the artistic director came to Waterloo to work with students and invited them to perform “Partita” at festivals in Chicago and Toronto.

Also last year, the department welcomed former principal dancer Jelko Yuresha, a prominent figure in the dance world who has partnered great ballerinas including Margot Fonteyn and Carla Fracci.

Mr.Yuresha came from Europe to approve the department’s reconstruction and performance of the Romantic ballet “Pas de Quatre,” to which he alone owns the rights. The original choreographer, Anton Dolin, entrusted Yuresha with the ballet before his death. His visit helped students bring history to life, linking the past with the present.

Many wonder why the dance department never made its way into the Faculty of Fine Arts. Professor Ryman laments this fact. saying that for years there had been talk of establishing a Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at UW. However, nothing materialized.

She commends students for having created opportunilies for themselves, sometimes in conjunction with other departments through joint program ventures. She points to the Choreographer’s Collective, a group of local dancers - largely UW grads, who perform locally and have appeared on Rogers Cable TV several times - as a sign of hope and continuity.

Graduating student Martha Rupert says her freedom to explore options has made the program special to her personally; nowhere else could she have obtained a double major in both music and dance. She recognizes one positive effect. of the phase-out in the flexible nature of classes and professors, who have allowed students to make the most out of their degree.

Those who have had the opportunity to experience dance at UW have been privileged with a glimpse into the future of an ancient art form - practised in diverse forms within various cultures worldwide.

In last year’s concert program, director Susan Cash wrote, “It is ironic that there is all this bounding about to energy.. . in a department close its doors. But the spirit of dance is steadfast in its ability to breath vitality into any situation.”

Swarm Sung reflects a sad loss, but also this vitality -a force which will help dancers carry their dreams into the future.

n Sund:ay March 10 at X0 in the afternoon, dancers from UW will gather onstage at the Humanities Theatre for Swall Song I_ a gala performance in honour of their department’s achievements.

March 10th promises to be a day of celebration rather than mourning, an cvcnt to which the university and K-W communities are invited.

The highlight ofthe day will be Swan Song, the gala performance, scheduled for 2:3U p*m. All are welcome to the preceding open house from 1 1:30 a. tn. to 130 pm. at East Campus Hall. Visitors will have the oppclrtunity to view historical displays, observe a master class and video installations. ;Inci partake of light refreshments.

At 2:30 3p.m.. a rich assortment of classical and contemporary dunce works, choreographed and performed

by UW students, faculty and alumni, will be presented.

Four gracluating students will dance near the beginning, in a lr)thcentury Spanish-tlavoured ballet classic called “La Cachucha.”

Professor Rhonda. Ryman and her students embarked upon the ambitious reconstruction! project earlier this year.

Susan Cash, faculty member since 1987, will premiere an original contemporary folk dance set to cyber sounds by Canadian musician Peter Hannan. She also brings back her delightful signature work, “The Back Piece,” to be danced by local graduate Cairine McKillop.

Former instructors Judith Miller and Betsy Cooper have returned for a performance.

Miller will direct “Tryptic,” which Cash describes as a “gripping” work by Danny Grossman.

Cooper will present her work, “The Unanswered Question,“danced

by Jennifer Bolt, who is currently completing the department’sjoint teacher-training program with Toronto’s National Ballet School.

Modem dance instructor and recent graduate Stephen Filipowcz will premiere a work to the live accompaniment of Arun Pal, tesident musician at the deptiment.

Members of the K-W Choreographer’s Collective, including MarthaRupert, Deanne Bingleman, Jackie Latendresse and Melissa Jamieson, will also perform in Swan Song. The Collective is a network of local dancers, largely made up of UW graduates.

Other recent graduates, now involved with the Toronto School of Dance Theatre, will perform “A Close Brush With Dance” by alumnae Danny Grossman Com-

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On March 10th you can join their song oii triumph to experience the magic which sets dance apart from other art forms and the innovation which sets this group of artists ;lpart from other dan<crs.

WATPUBCOORDINATORS Going on mop? How about being a Watpub coordinator?

All you have to do is have fun once in a while. with fellow UW students. If you know where you are going. and think your city needs a Watpub [pub aigkt for UW students). give Trish a call at x6331. or tamumby@feds and set something u . Traditional cities include I oronto, Ottawa, London, Montreal, Calgary. but anything can h aPPen,..

WATSFIC watsfic is hosting a AD&D tournament March 16 6 17th in Engineering Lecture Hall.

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Friday, March 8,1996

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SPORTS

Team of Destiny?

by Ryan

“Pucks”

Pyette

Imprint staff ineteen seventy-four.

The University of Waterloo appeared quite different from the bustling setting for acadaemia we students enjoy today. The Imprint had the name Chevron, the-coach of the Warrior hockey team was McKillop, not McKee, and the beat writer for the hockey team was a dude known only as “liskris,” not the “Pucks” you’ve grown to love.

In fact, many of the players and fans of this year’s edition of the Black and Gold were not even a gleam in their father’s eye the last time a CIAU title trophy found itself raised over Warriors’ heads.

However, on the ice, the situation was similar.

The 1974 Warriors claimed the Ontario titIe by defeating the Western Mustangs and then, have mercy, defeating the Calgary Dinosaurs in the CIAU semi-final.

This year, the Warriors blasted UQTR and now their next opponent is the Calgary Dinosaurs. .. in the CIAU semi-final.

In the CIAU final, though, the Waterloo team of old ended up playing some team called the Sir George Williams College Georgians. If Waterloo handles Calgary this year, they will match upagainst either UQTR or Acadia for the big title.

This year, hockey has been rejuvenated at Waterloo by not only the success of the club, but also by the character of the players. It sometimes seems as if the hockey gods have smiled on the boys, and al-

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lowed them to play relatively free from worry as they chase the title.

They are confident they won’t injure themselves.

They know they will not play a poor game. And in doing that, the Warriors have created the stuff of legends.

Steve Smith, the MVP in the OUAA tournament last weekend, battled through a pain-filled university career due to a gimpy knee.

At times, it really looked as if his hockey-playing days were behind him. Last year, Smith didn’t dress for much of the season and while the Warriors were off on a road trip, Smith would be back at Columbia IceFields, especially Saturday morning, on the ice, by himself. This year, Smith’s knee has miraculously functioned as a normal part of his body and his effort mirrors a man who wants to squeeze the most out of his new-found good fortune. If you watch the games this weekend on TSN or live, focus on Smith for a couple of shifts. His legs and mind are in sync, and he never floats. He knows this is his time, his chance. The knee may hurt tomorrow, but it doesn’t hurt today.

Chris Kraemer and Sheldon Gilchrist, both veteran Warrior forwards, see their days as Warriors fading into the twilight. This year proves to them that there is justice somewhere in the crazy 01’ universe, particularly for Kraemer, the intensity-driven, smooth-skating, hard-hitting winger who has seen many attempts at glory snuffed out by extenuating circumstances.

Kraemer played junior for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, a dynasty of sorts for four years in the Ontario

Hockey League. However, before the Hounds stepped onto the national scene in three consecutive Memorial Cup appearances, Kraemer was traded away to the less glorious sites of Belleville and later, Kitchener. Now, Kraemer has no ring to display past glories. When

he watched the Greyhounds win the Memorial Cup in the Soo a few years back, he thought to himself, “Geez, that could’ve been me.“This weekend, Kraemer will try to make up for those haunting could’vebeen, would’ve-been, should’ve-

been’s. This is his time.

As for Gilchrist, a smaller player sometimes undeservedly overlooked in the shuffle of Wynnes, Smiths, St. Germains, and Brearleys, he dazzled everyone last weekend in the OUAA championships with his heart-filled play, especially in the all-important Laurentian game. “Cookie” represents the old style 1980’s hockey of blazing speed and instant offence.

Mike Chambers is the quintessential Warrior.

Even though he sat out most of last year, he has been in fabulous game shape all season long. He continues to play like an all-star.

The player you’ve got to weep in joy for, though, is Brian Henry.

The fifth-year defenceman returned to the Warriors after Christmas for his last ever kick-at-the-can, and has filled the Sylvain Lefebvre-type role that every team must have.

Every game, Henry delivers the crushing check that tells the opposition forwards they might as well undress because there’s no damn way they’re even going to see what colour Harris’ pads are, Henry proves to athletes they should use

a11their eligibility: you never know what will happen.

Finally, there is John Wynne.

Captain Wynner.

Wynne is, like Smith, a player only appreciated if watched independently of the rest of the game. He’s the Warrior’s nucleus, if they have just one, and their attitude exudes from him. He’s been close in his rookie season to a CIAU title (the 199 1 season where Alberta knocked off Waterloo in OT and ended up losing the championship to UQTR), but not as close as this year. This is the last bookend to his collegiate career, and he desperately wants a joyfully emphatic ‘THE END.’ Will the Warriors do it? If they play their game, as they have been doing since Christmas, they will be the national champions.

No matter where the CIAU ranks them (right now, an idiotic fourth), they cannot and will not deny the team, the school name, the students, and the fans their destiny. We all need our own 1974.

CIAU fact: Last year in Saskatoon, the Warriors destroyed the then number-two ranked Calgary Dinosaurs 6-2.

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first period with most of the play in the Voyageur end despite having to kill off two penalties.

The Voyageurs came at the Warriors in the second, evening the play with numerous scoring chances for both teams. GameMVP Steve Smith gave Waterloo a twogoal cushion when,on yet another power play, he neatly deflected a Wynne shot into the top comer, leaving no chance for Voyageur goalie Sean Spencer.

The third period saw the Warriors take control, scoring two goals off defensive miscues by the pressured Laurentian defense corps. The first came midway through the third and sealed the game tight when Mike Chambers pounced on aloose puck and tucked it in after the Laurentian defencemen failed to clear the zone. The nail in the coffin came a few minutes later shorthanded, when Smith scored his second goal of the game after a giveaway

by Spencer and a nifty move around a sprawling defender.

Laurentian spoiled the shutout for the rarely tested but solid Joe

Harris with one second left on the clock.

The game featured solid two-way play by the Warriors who never really let the northern ones get into the game.

Some concentrated jeering by fans behind the Laurentian bench got under the skin of some of the players and resulted in #26 Cory Evans getting ejected from the game for smashing his stick after a cheap cross-checking penalty .

Waterloo scored their third goal on the ensuing powerplay to put the game away. Evans had earlier negated an effective Laurentian powerplay in the second period with a stupid penalty for needlessly bowling over Warrior goalie Harris after the latter had played the puck.

Just shows the value of keeping your head in the game and not letting heckling get to you.

Let’s hope Coach McKee can keep the Warriors playing at such a high level en route to a National title for the first time since the magical 1973-74 season. Come to Toronto this weekend and support your team as the drive to be #t continues...

Is Chambers blasting the disc or spearing the poor bugger in front of him? You make the cdl.

The W&rs would really like to extend their appreciation to all their fans, especially the basketball heads, fur coming out to the Queen’s Cup tournament.

Remember: there are still two more games to win, and u UW bus will be heading down to Toronto Saturday.

Get on it! Also, murk up your bedsheets; TSiV is uffwing 500 bucks to the best banner (got& patronize TSN, though) fur Sunday night’s final between (presumptuous prediction) Waterloo and Acadia.

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nyone who caught some games at last August’s Canadian National Junior Basketball Championships, held at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, wouldn’t be surprised by the performance of Warrior second-year point guard Mano Watsa in the 1996 OUAA West campaign.

While helping the Ontario provincial junior men’s team to a perfect record and a national championship, Watsa emerged as a dominant player, capable of stealing the ball at one end and dunking at the other.

The West division’s coaches wouldn’t have been surprised either, after watching Watsa this year.

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here’s a tired, old sports clic he that goes something like this: We didn’t lose this game. We just ran out of time.

Well, cliches wouldn’t be around if they didn’t have a ring of truth to them. Here’s another one: The Waterloo basketball Warriors’ last game of the year was a microcosm of the season as a whole.

Falling behind early to the Western Mustangs in the OUAA West division semi-final last Friday night at Copps Coliseum, the Warriors finally gelled late in the going and missed a last-second shot to register a heartbreaking 69-67 loss.

The Mustangs went on to give the McMaster Marauders, 82-68 winners over the Lakehead Nor’ Westers in Friday’s other sernifmal, more of a tussle than many expected.

McMaster finally prevailed in Saturday’s west division final 75-7 1.

Waterloo trailed Western 6753 with less than seven minutes to play, but took advantage of fifthyear forward Tom Balfe’s relentless rebounding and a Western freethrow cold streak to put together a 14- 1 run that saw them trail by just one, 68-67 with I : 12 left.

Then, with just 8.1 seconds left, sophomore point guard Mano Watsa got tangled up with Western’s Nathan Stepanovic over a rebound and Watsa was called for the foul. (Watsa was named Thursday to the OUAA West’s second all-star team.)

Stepanovic hit one of his two free throws, and Watsa’s last-second shot rang off the iron.

“They played their hearts out,” UW head coach Tom Kieswetter said. “[The Mustangs] had us gapped, and we definitely had the opportunities.

I think we played well enough to win the game. We did a hell of a job reeling them in; we just couldn’t get it finished.

Everybody on that team was fired up and everybody believed we were going to win that game. An outstanding effort.”

Western led 32-30 at the break, but sprinted out of the blocks in the second half with a nine-point run to take a 41-30 lead before Warrior shooting guard Nick Poulimenos hit a trey to cut into the lead.

Poulimenos was demoted from the starting lineup during a lacklustre regular season, but returned to his big-game form in that second halt’with 10 points in a five-minute span. n/like Milne scored Western’s

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second all-star team.

Fifth-yea1 Brock Badger point guard David Picton, who averaged 27.2 points per game, led all votegetters as he made the first team.

Joining Picton on the first team is McMaster Marauder guard Titus Channer, Lakehead Nor’Wester forward Craig Law, Western Mustang forwarcl Mike Lynch, and Guelph Grylphon forward Paul Eldridge.

With Watsaon the second team is Western forward Mike Milne, Windsor Lancer rookie guard Matt McMillan, Gryphon guard Alex Brainis ancl forward Wayne Charles, and McMaster guard Keegan Johnson.

Charles and Johnson were tied for the final position on the team.

Windsor forward Geoff Stead is rookie of the year.

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Balfe was such an intimidating ‘Stangs defenders stood behind next eight points, while Jason Meskis and Michael Lynch both hit threes to keep UWO in the lead.

“Mike Milne killed us,” Kieswetter said. “We know he can play inside, and where he killed us is with the midrange shots. And we gave it to him. That was part of our plan. We figured we couldn’t stop everything.

And with his quickness, if we move out to guard him, he steps around.”

The story line of the game’s late stages boils down to two items of interest: Western couldn’t hit a foul shot, and Tom Balfe just wouldn’t let Waterloo lose.

After Mustang Jonathan Dingle hit the fmt of two free throws with six minutes left, Western missed nine straight attempts f%om the line before Stepanovic’s second attempt put UWO up by two.

And BaIfe, the fifth-year graduating senior, played like a lion, scoring 10 of his 12 points and many of his game-high 13 rebounds during that same late-game comeback.

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“Tom Balfe just played his heart out,” Kieswetter said. “We had them stopped. They were reeling. We had an opportunity to win the game. Near the end, we had two shots inside. Two good shots.”

UW’s other fifth-year man, centre Mark Hopkins, scored a more quiet 5 points and hauled down 7 boards. Sophomore forward Mike Stroeder scored 11 points; Mark Eys had 9.

For Western, Milne led all scorers with 26 points on 12-of- 17 shooting and nine boards. Lynch had 13 points, while Blake Gage dished out 10 assists.

By winning the OUAA West, McMaster joins five other division winners to qualify for the CIAU championship tournament in Halifax on Mar. 15-17.

After this weekend’s playoff games, including the Toronto Varsity Blues visiting the Marauders for the Wilson Cup OUAA championship game, the CIAU will choose two wildcard teams to complete the eight-team field.

Rachelle Brohman Athena Indoor Hockey

StelveSmith Wurribr Huckey

An outdoor field hockey All-Canadian, Brohman led the UW indoor squad witheight goals in five games at the OWIAA indoor championships this past weekend in Toronto.

Brohman scored four times against Western and her strong play over the whole tournament was a key factor in the Athenas’bronze-medal performance.

A third-year .Environmental Studies student, Steve was named MVP of the Queen’s Cup tournament as Waterloo captured the OUAA title for the first time since 1974. Smith totaIled five points in UW wins over Laurentian (4-l) and UQTR (5-l), including two goals on the power play and two while playing short-handed.

IMPRINT, Friday, March 8,1996

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Heir to the Throne

by The

Fan

Imprint staff

T

his week saw the end of the Pat Bums era in Toronto.

With the Maple Leafs mired in a twenty-two game slump, an eight game losing streak and actually posting a worse record than the Raptors uver the past two months.

Trades and call-ups of all sorts didn’t work, so the next item on the list in fixing a team is to fire the coach. So, we in Toronto say thanks to Pat for coaching us back to respectability and wish him luck.

So, the issue on the tongues of Leaf fans is what to do now. Nick Beverly is only in for the rest of the season, and hopefully he can steer the Buds into the playoffs.

However, next year Beverly goes back to being Director of Scouting and the question of who to hire to helm the good ship Maple Leaf comes back into the spotlight.

First off, lets talk about the system. When Pat Bums came to Toronto, the Leafs had a couple of decent offensive players, a rack of mid-range defensive players, a solid defensive core and a young, unproven goaltender.

Working with Cliff Fletcher, they added some offence, got Felix Potvin playing Iike an all-star and got within a goal of the Stanley Cup. This after missing the playoffs the year before. However, the Leafs have seen their defensive talent eroding away, their forwards misfiring and a general drop in intensity. The time has come to change everything.

In veterans Gilmour, Andreychuk, Sundin, Gagner, Gartner, Muller and Presley, and youngsters Warriner, Convery, Haggerty and Deyell, the Leafs have a set of forwards, that when playing up to their abilities, can provide an offence potent enough to challenge many of the better teams in the league. Unfortunately, working under Burns’ defense-oriented system, they were not always allowed or able to produce.

And when your defense contains the likes of Ellett, Gill and Macoun, playing a defensive system isn’t worth the paper this column is printed on. Larry Murphy provides a solid offensive influence to nurture Kenny Jonsson, but they’re both offensive defencemen, not strong defensive types.

The next Leaf coach would be advised to adopt an offensive system, designed to take advantage of the potential firepower this team possesses. Burns can take his system on to a team like San Jose, where they don’t have the offense, but we need to change. Adopt the equivalent to the West Coast Offense in football, and maybe we can go somewhere.

We have the talent, we just need the man to lead it.

Already, the early buzz speaks of the proven and unemployed Jacques Demers (late of Montreal) and Dave King (late of the Flames), but this Fan would like to make a suggestion of his own. There really is only one man who should lead this team right now, and that would be the one and only Don Cherry.

Allow me to briefly outline my reasons for making Don the coach of the Leafs: (I) Coaching in Toronto requires someone who can handle the pressure of daily calls for his firing.

Don Cherry has proven, time and time again, that he can handle any pressure thrown at him. Having spent so much of his life in the spotlight, I think he’s more than capable of handling it in Toronto.

(2) Toronto currently has Doug Gilmour and Kirk Muller under contract. If there are any two players in the NHL Don Cherry would adopt as his own sons, it’s Gilmour and Muller. For that reason alone, I’m sure Don could be dragged out of retirement.

(3) Coaching a team in Toronto demands a certain sense of style. Don Cherry has his own sense of style. With the plaid blazers, the high-collar shirts and the goofy ties, Don has cultivated an image that stands out in the crowd and demands attention, just Iike a good coach should.

(4) A coach shouldn’t be afraid to speak his mind. Don Cherry has never been known for being able to hold his tongue. If he sees something wrong, he talks about it. Good or bad, at least he’s vocal.

(5) I love Don Cherry. I love the Leafs.

In rough, those are my beliefs.

Don Cherry is a national icon, and the Leaf fans deserve someone who appreciates the game, who brings knowledge to the game, and who can make even my grandmother swear.

TheBronzeIndoors

by Ryan

Pyette

Imprint staff

S

ometimes in the world of sports, it all comes down to experience.

No matter how much talent you possess, no matter how many athletic bodies highlight your roster, at times, the only real bottom line is familiarity with the game.

For the Waterloo Athenas, bronze medallists in last weekend’s continuation of the OWIAA Indoor Hockey championships held at York, the team learned that time is definitely on their side. The Athenas are brimming with youth.

“Overall, the team did well, we progressed a long way,” recounts Athena coach Sharon Creelman of the third place effort put forth by the Black and Gold. “We’re a young team, and a very young indoor team.”

Of course, Creelman refers to the fact that the indoor team is made up primarily of the players who led Waterloo to their first OWIAA outdoor field hockey title during the fall ten-n.

Perhaps that is why the expectations were so high for this winter’s indoor squad, but the final standings proved very close to many hockey experts’ expectations.

“Toronto and York (who ended up playing in the finals, the Blues won 2-1 for gold) had much more

scoring power than the other teams,” added Creelman who views the indoor season as an extension of the real deal at the field in the fall. “You can’t expect to score seven goals against either of them.

If you can’t shut them down defensively, then you’re going to experience problems.

“Technically, we played well enough to survive. The indoor game is so much different from outside

because of the space constraints.

To draw comparisons on the two would be like comparing volleyball and beach volleyball.”

The Athenas began the weekend with a surprising 4-4 draw against an improved Queen’s squad, dumped Western 8-2, and fell to the veteran Metro-based outfits, 61 to Toronto and 6-2 to York, the host club, To salvage the weekend, Waterloo bounced Guelph 5-O. Rachelle Brohman led the

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Michelle L+o added seven to the cause.

Brohman, the latest female Athlete of the Week, scored four against the Mustangs, while Lo deposited three of her snipes into the Queen’s net.

Brohman and Bernice Willemse, star of the first half of the tournament held at the PAC last month, were named as OWIAA indoor second team allstars at the awards ceremony.

“Field hockey constitutes a year-round philosophy now,” observes Creelman. “We want to build on what we’ve accomplished this year.”

Now, the Athenas begin preparing for the upcoming fall season in six months, and Coach Creelman will make sure her players stay busy during the idle months. Invariably, every player must keep a hockey stick in her hands at all times.

And during this time, the Athenas will grow more experienced, more in tune to the strategies they must employ in order to stay in the upper echelon with the Blues and the Yeowomen.

Soon after, the undeniable talent will mix with the repetition of knowledge gained through continuous playing.

Then, we’ll really see something special.

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Loose

by Andrew

Henderson

Imprint staff t’s about time that Leaf fans realized just what it is exactly that is wrong with their beloved team.

They aren’t very good!

Sure, they have a great deal of potential with Gilmour, Sundin, Gartner, Muller and others but these guys just aren’t producing the way they should be. Granted, Killer has picked up his game recently, but he is still not the dynamo he was a few years ago. Sundin and Gartner have had streaks, and Muller is still adjusting to his new team, but the Buds don’t have a genuine scorer on the team anymore. Argue if you will, but remember these three numbers: 3-l 6-3.

Rumours around MLG suggest that the Leafs are looking for a gritty, experienced defenseman.

Here’s an idea. How about Jamie Macoun? He’s already drawing a gross salary for skating aimlessly around the ice while others are playing the game, why not give him a new role?

One can’t lay the blame solely on one player, although it is fun trying. The blame can be laid however, on a single individual: Pat Bums. GM Cliff Fletcher has finally realized that the time for change is here. Bums’ style ofhardnosed, bump and grind hockey has overstayed its welcome in Toronto. was fun when we were winning the one and two-goal games, but now the same effort usually results in a loss. Trades have been ineffective thus far: MuIler and Dave Gagner are still adjusting, while Don Beaupre just plain stinks.

Bottom line: Fletcher has always found the types ofplayers that Burnsie wanted.

Burn& hasn’t found the success the Fletcher wants.

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fier two euphoric World Series championship seasons, followed by two seasons whose only high point was the strike, the Toronto Blue Jays have settled down to the hard realities of putting things back together again.

And with the departures of four of Toronto’s most reliable players, those realities are daunting indeed.

Daunting, but, just maybe, not insurmountable.

Centre field is now occupied by veteran speedster Otis Nixon, who, as the obvious choice for the lead-offspot will fill Devon White’s position in the batting order as well. Nixon’s contract lasts for two years, enough time, Jays fans hope, for prospect Shannon Stewart to mature. By then, Robert Perez, another promising outfielder, should be ready to take the place of Joe Carter who is expected to retire after this season.

Second base poses a bigger challenge for manager Cito Gaston.

The most likely scenario has utility infielder Domingo Cedeno taking the job left vacant by Roberto Alomar. Not only did he impress the Jays last season with his abitity to perform despite long lay-offs, through 117 at-bats in winter ball, Cedeno hit an almost unbelievable ,419.

While Cedeno soars, heir apparent to the DH spot, Carlos Delgado struggled in the winter leagues (* 177 in 124 at bats).

Delgado led early voting for Rookie of the Year in 1994 when he smashed 9 home runs in April before falling into a slump that ended in his demotion to AAA Syracuse.

The sometimes catcher has continued to perform well in the minors, but brief stints in the majors have failed to instill conf’idence that Delgado can hit enough big league pitches to stay in the lineup, One ray of hope: despite his anemic batting average, Delgado still managed to hit seven home runs.

be filled by Canadian journeyman Paul Quantrill who led the Phillies in wins last year. So far, so good.

But the last two spots are trouble : one is empty, the other is filled by Juan Guzman, who is coming off two consecutive disappointing campaigns.

But what remains gives Jays fans reason to hope. Third baseman Ed Sprague improved his power numbers in ‘95 with 18 horners, and John Olerud, though he has yet to reproduce anything like his ‘93 numbers (.363,24 HR), had a strong second half. Moreover, right fielder Shawn Green had an impressive rookie year (.288, 15 HR) and, given that he has been improving steadily throughout his pro career, should provide plenty of offence in ‘96. Not only that, the addition of pitcher Bill Risley to the bullpen - Toronto hopes he can fill the closer role left empty by the disintegration of Duane Ward should solidify Blue Jay relief.

If Delgado can finally come into his own, if Guzman can bounce back to ‘93 (or, better, 92) form, if GM Gord Ash can find a capable left handed starter, the Jays might do more than rebuild; they might contend. But none of these is likely, and all three of them together is almost impossible. So the Jays will continue their effbrts to reinvent their franchise, and remember with fondness when they were the best team in baseball. Twice.

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spot is unnerving, the starting rotation is downright frightefhg. ”

If the DH spot is unnerving, the starting rotation is downright frightening.

Free agent pickup Erik Hanson will almost certainly be the number one man, followed in the rotation by Pat Hentgen who still has the faith of Blue jays faithful, despite an uneven performance last season. The number three spot will

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Balls Greg Johnson clearly scored his first goal as a Los Angeles King (he was one of the players involved in the big trade last week). The Hockey Night in Canada camera team looked at about four different angles before ldiscovering the puck about six inches behind the line.

However, the video goal judge ruled no goal. What is the point of the instant replay if it is not 1000/6 effective?

t was fifty years ago today. . . well In ot today, but a half-century ago this week, Jatckie Robinson began his historic and unprecedented baseball career. ln the spring of 1946 Robinson arrived at his first spring training for the Brooklyn Dodgers organization.; the first black baseball player to play in the Majors.

Robinson would play the 1946 season for the Dodgers’ International League affiliate, the Montreal Royals, but would crack the big team’s roster before long. s anyone out there sick of flipping to TSN and finding curling‘?

If not, is there anyone who is not sick of the curling wit that analyst Vie Rauter imbibes his viewers with? I have nothing against the sport. I have curled, although never at any skilled level, and I do enjoy the game. But six to eight hours a day? I like pool and bowling too.

‘Nuff said.

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fier a few fights against gumps, AM ike Tyson is the number one contender fi3r the WBC heavyweight title. He will fight Frank Bruno for the crown on March 14.

After that he will win the other world heavyweight titles. Then Don King will construct a rocketship for he and Tyson to pursue the intergalactic heavyweight title.

After that, he will be cloned to fight himself. The bout will end when each Tyson knocks the other’s head off, and we will finally be rid of him.

Field Hockey Fiasco

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hey blew it. Field Hockey International had a chance to gain some respectability as an international sport but fell horribly short, You’ve probably heard by now all about the Canadian field hockey controversy, where our men’s national team lost out on an Olympic berth because India and Malaysia played to an inexplicable 0-O draw.

India, ranked fourth in the world, somehow failed to get a shot on goal against mediocre opponent Malaysia in a sport where twenty to thirty shots a game is not uncommon. It seemed apparent that a fix was on and that justice would be served and Canada would get the Olympic berth that was taken away from them.

Instead, the committee assigned to Canada’s appeal rejected it, leaving Malaysia in and Canada out. While Canadian officials, in-

eluding the president of Field Hockey Canada, UW athletic director Judy .McCrae, sadly admitted that it isI hard to prove collusion, it still doesn’t seem right. It was apparent to all who saw the game that a fix was on, but nothing was done about it. Field Hockey International1 has sent the message: Collusion and match-fixing is allowed in field hockey.

This move will definitely put a hurting on field hockey’s intemational reputation.

Many people, especially Canadians, will now write the sport off as a joke and a farce that condones seedy dealings.

Unfortunatelly,I’m inclined to agree.

Field hocke:y is not a well-known sport in this country as it is and now, it may never be. This kind of crap would be expected from something like boxing, not a supposedly legitimate sport like field hockey.

For those of you who don’t know what field hockey is, it’s like a combination of hockey, soccer, . . *and now, Iprofessional wrestling.

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WAA EAST DIVISION FINAL 4 Cue1ph

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QUAAFINAL (QUEEN'S CUP) Waterloo 5 UQTR

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Windsor Windsor Windsor

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Dalhousie

TRACK AND FIELD CIAU Championship Mar. 8, 9 at University of Windsor

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TRACKAND FIELD

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Milton Hart York Roland Acheampong Western Carlo Chiocchio York

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id you know that the Maritial ArtsClubisoneof‘CR’s largest? It has an zverage of 150-250 members per term and runs all year. The club’s pre.<, Kim Martin, said the club is ge; -ed to beginners. its mandale is ‘7 I give the student population an exposure to martial arts and a philosophy of martial arts in a social structure.”

The Martial Arts club promotes the art and science of using the body and the mind to neutralize an attack. Therefore, martial arts are an excellent means of obtaining and maintaining physical and mental fitness.

The club provides instruction in three martial arts. Tae Kwon Do, part of the World Tae Kwon Do Federation; Shoshin Aiki Ju-Jitsu; anti two styles of Karate, the Shoto Kan Karate Association and the Japan Karate Association.

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Last weekend, four club members were tested for black belt gradings at different levels. After end-of-term grading, the club descends on a locai eatery for a martial arts feast. They usually receive a special Chinese selection of delicious delicacies.

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f you’ve ever been interested in doing a little rock climb ing, then here’s your chance: Chris McRaild is organizing a trip to the Toronto Climbing Academy on Saturday, March 9 (postponed from March 2). He is also organizing an evening at the North Rock Climbing Gym in Kitchener on Tuesday, March 12. To obtain further information on these trips, please contact Chris at: crmcrail@systems.watstar. uwaterloo.ca. > Koorus Bookan (kbookan @ watarts.uwaterloo.ca) is offering a photography workshop next Monday, March 11. Meet at MC4040 after the general meeting at 7 p.m. The workshop will be held outside (weather permitting) Finally, Morven Duncan has announced another curling night, date to be announced (contact: <mjduncan@chetnistry.watstar. uwaterloo.ca>).

Many Canadians choose tobogganing as a favourite winter pastime, but have you ever thought about tobogganing right here on campus? When I heard somebody talking about tobogganing at the UW Football Field beside Columbia street, my first impression was to laugh. I mean it’s merely a ditch, isn’t it? Anyhow, on Monday, the 25th January, after the Outers Club meeting, a number of people went to l

itness enthusiasts, here’s one for you. On Sunday, March 17, UW is hosting Fit For Heart, a two hour aerobathon to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The event will take place from 11 a.m. - I p.m. in the PAC gym with registration beginning at 10:30am.

Fit For Heart is open to anybody so even if you’ve never tried aerobics before, come on out and you can get a taste of all different kinds. UW instructors will be featuring different styles, including box aerobics, country fitness, and hip-hop and funk, just to name a few of the various styles.

You don’t have to sweat your stuff for the full two hours. Co-

exactly that little hill. The conditions there were just perfect. The slope was covered with a layer of hard packed snow, almost ice, and a temperature of about -5” Celsius.

We had a nice collection of devices to go downhill: A real hitech toboggan with a steering wheel and skis, several ‘normal’ plastic sleds (no heavy duty stuff: some of them broke all too soonwell, they are designed for kids), an inner tube and cafeteria trays.

After a few tries it became clear that the inner tube was the most comfortable, and the trays were the fastest.

Basically, we tried every combination of sleds imaginable: the inner tube with one, two, three, four or five persons (advice: make sure that the people at the bottom get enough air!). Or trains with all people, forward, backward, sideways.

An interesting combination was the inner tube down the large slope where there was a ramp of snow that had accumulated at the bottom. One just had to manage to land on the tube after the flight.

Unbelievable, how sledding down and running up 10 metres of snow covered hill can make adults so happy.

After an hour and a half, many of us looked like snowmen, and we went for hot chocolate to warm up.

I still think that this is just a ditch.

Nevertheless, I could hardly sit on my bike the next day. It’s definitely worth doing it - especially now that the snow is back!

The club has nine high’caliber black belt instructors.

One past instructor was Lisa Findlay who placed fifth in the world at the All Japan Championships in Karate in kata forms. If that’s not high caliber, I don’t know what is.

To join the Martial Arts Club, go to the organizational meeting at the beginning of each term or go to a practice within the first two weeks of term {check out your Pick it Up brochure for times). For more information, contact Kim Martin at klmartin@math or UW x2457.

Also, check out the club’s website at http://math.uwaterloo.ca: 801 -klmartin/martial.arts/ MartialArts.html.

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e all know the spirit of Campus Ret is really to have fun, stay active, and get fit. But in league action, quite often teams are just in it to win. Well, one team in the Competitive Basketball League epitomizes the true spirit of Campus Rec. We would like to recognize “Jake Sauer” for their efforts.

“lake Sauer’s” twelve team members are all from Conrad Grebel College, and so is their team namesake - the real Jake Sauer a friend who is on a work term right now, What makes this basketball team so specia.l? 1 asked their cap&n, Nathan Scott, who said, “Our goal is to have fun all the time.”

They seem to live up to their god and the team has become notorious in the Cleague for their antics on the court. I had the pleasure of watching their last game and the term, “Leapin’ Lizards” came to mind. Players leapt down court, flailed on the ground, and basically had a good time, al ways smiling.

“Jake Sauer” players celebrated after each basket with the “Three Amigos Salute” which often distracted them from the game, much

ordinator of Administrative Fitness, Nikki Gabriel, assured me that there will be plenty of breaks, and refreshments will be served, Halfway through the event, instructors will also put on a step and slide demo.

Interested participantscan pick up a pledge form at the equipment desk at the PAC. There will be incentive prizes for pledge-collectors. If you dont get pledges, you can still participate in Fit for Heart with a minimum donation of $10, All proceeds will go to t.he Heart and Stroke Foundation.

There will be lots of door prizes, so we hope to see you there.

The theme of the 19% Fit For Heart is green and white, as it is going to be on St. Paddy’s Day. Nikki wants all fitness enthusiasts to “Break out your green spandex and get pumped”!

to spectators’ delight. They even brought their own cheerleaders who stood on the sidelines doing cartwheels and “the wave.”

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sidelines throughout the game. Too bad I missed that one.

Team player, Jeremy Kruger told me, “We’re out there having fun and everyone else is crying to kill us.” He was referring to the fact that other teams often try to take advantage of “Jake Sauer’s” apparent lack-of-talent.

But 1 personally thought they did quite well, although they have only won one game.

Not only does this team dress up and celebrate each basket, they have some different tactics too. For instance, they

They USAu play where the ~~~S,p~e Lfju:;tti . team joins hands and does ~G~&u~&$~~~$~ CircIe of Confusion” where a dunce, confusing their they basically join hands and do a dance, confusing upponents on the court. their opponents on the court.

This team is hilarious This team is hillarious to to watch, The team was wearing a variety of strange apparel, ranging from nylons, to longjohns, to orange baggy pants. Apparently, in past games, they sported ten t-shirts each, and did a strip show on the

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Keeping within the true spirit. of Campus Ret, “Jake Sauer” is just out there to have fun. Simone Magwood said, “They let me play even though I didn’t make the team in public school.”

This team should be an example to us all. Way to go “Jake Sauer”!

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arrived just in time to catch Adam West’s last song, “Things.”

Considering that that’s the only song I’ve ever heard from Adam West, I must reserve judgement.

It was enough, however, to make me wish I’d arrived about an hour earlier to catch the entirety of the London popsters’ set.

Tht Rheastatics, apparently, attract a crowd wherever they go. It was with much expectation that I watched the four Londoners walk onto the grimy stage of the Volcano. For years I’ve heard stories about their concerts, liked what I’d heard from the albums, but this was the first opportunity I’d had to see them live.

The band announced the fact that they hadn’t played in a lqng time, and thus were going to play a long set. They also announced that

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he sights and sounds of the 50’s were all but forgotten last Saturday night at the Opera House by the time the Heatseekers hit the stage.

The Heatseekers, a three piece from T-0, opened the show for Boss Hog with their own brand of surf-pop sounds.

The Heatseekers took full advantage of their talents and, with each song, took the audience higher and higher into the clouds.

Their set was more than just a number of songs, it was more like a number of movements that seemed to fill the Opera House with a beautiful sound.

Although the Heatseekers contain members of Suckerpunch and Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, it is nice to see that it is still possible to distinguish between the bands. However that is not to say that the Heatseekers are at an entirely different end of the musical spectrum, but more that they are only closely related to both the Shadowy Men and Suckerpunch in the world of surf sounds.

During the short intermission between bands, all eyes were fixated upon a giant television screen which was now hanging from above the stage, This attempt to tide the crowd over with music videos from the 50’s seemed to work until Jon Src:ncer started to set up his equip-

gre-~d capability. (Dave Bidini even had what appeared to be a personal assistnnt onstage handing him various guitars).

Even drummer Don Kerr gave up the skins for a few minutes to take a turn at the front.

The Rhleostatics are excellent musicians, and many, many people love them. I, however, do not. In fact, by the time 12:30 rolled around t was quite bored by the excess of their over-the-top sound. This wiis partly due to the lengh of their set; two hours of even the best sound can become: excessive if not sufficiently developed.

Their type ofartistic musicianship would have a better home in an art gallery than on a bar-room stage.

It’s a left brain/right brain thing; on one hand I know they’re good, yet on the other I can’t help but not really care if 1 see them again or not.

If you do care, however, the Rheostatics, will be starring in the mulitmedia performance Canada from a Boxcar: music inspired by the Group of Seven at Toronto’s Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School March 29th.

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they would be playing eight or nine brand new songs, which will appear on the new album being recorded next week. These declarations were greeted with much enthusiasm from the crowd packed onto the Volcano dance floor. Even more interesting was the fact that the Rheostatics have been commissioned to write and play dedicated to the Group of Seven for the Oh! Canada art project.

Of course, if Junos were awarded for “Most Artistic Band,” the Rheostatics would have a stack ofthe oversize plastic paperweights in their closet. What else can you say about a band with not one, but two albums named W/&e Music?

Many of the instrumental bits actually sound a lot like real whale music, with the standard Rheostatic guitar sound swimming in the background like orchestrated feedback.

Actually, the Rheostatics don’t have songs so much as they have this one really cool sound. The band’s harmony is a distinct vocal in itself. They switch between instruments nearly every song, and play whatever they pick up with

ment on stage.

Several minutes later, Boss Hog came at the Opera House with a vengeance.

Opening with an intense version of “Winn Coma,” it was apparent that they were more than just another branch of the infamous Blues Explosion.

Front and centre was Christina Martinez, wife of Jon Spencer, who provided quite a spectacle dressed in an outfit that was destined to offend.

Martinez was definitely not at a loss for stage presence and came out from under Jon’s shadow as she took out tremendous amounts of emotion on the microphone.

While Boss I-iog does contain the legendary Jon Spencer, the rest of the band is also very talented.

Both drummer Hollis Queens and bassist Jens Jurgensen would be able to shine quite easily in any other company.

Jon Spencer is quite possibly one of the best blues guitarists out there right now and the crowd at the Opera House witnessed an amazing display of both energy and improvisation.

As one watches Jon Spencer play, it is as though he creates a collection of sounds and somehow blends them together from within to form a melody.

Spencer’s improvisational mind was put to the test when he broke a string and continued to play two more songs before changing it.

Ifaudience members didn’t feel their jaws drop when Marctinez hit the stage, then they must have been in a state of complete shock by the time Boss Hog walked out the door.

Ani Difranco PCH, U of Guelph Saturday March 2

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mid all the “I-love-you3 being thrown towards the stage came, perhaps too quiet for her to hear, “Thank you Ani, for everything.”

For me, this captured the essence of Ani Difranco’s concert.

Ani was being thanked for her strength, her independence, and her willingness to share parts of herself with us. She sings about experiences that everyone has, but that few people are able to talk about, and much of her success lies in her ability to freely voice and subsequently validate traditional emotions.

Ani’s rise to relative success is well-known by her fans.

At 18, she put out her first album on her own record label, Righteous Babe. Seven years later, she has released six fWlength albums.

She has refused to sign contracts with major record compa-

songs deal almost exclusively with pain, anger, and frustration.

But venting her feelings is how she is best able to deal with them.

As such, on stage and in between songs, Ani comes across as charming and enchanting.

She endears herself to her audience with witty anecdotes of Bono making a

nies in the name of maintaining

her artistic integrity, an integLLI’m not worthy of you, you’re not rity which seems to consist worthy of me.” largely of vocalizing her anger at the world. connection with his audience by throwing drums at it and boys with In “Out of Range,” :;he Ilescribes herselfas “5’2”, giggly-wigherniated testes.

For those who pay attention, gly.” This is a strange self-charachi’s concert can be an emotional terization for a musician whose

experience.

She tells silly stories and laughs with her audience, and then sings songs full of angst and frustration.

As she shared songs from her upcoming album, it became evident that her anger has not yet diffused. II, seems,instead, to have intensified. “It’s been one of those years, ” she says. But it didn’t appear that her fans were paying attention. They were busy cheering everytime she used the word “fuck” or sang a song that they recognized.

It seemed that songs that used to be songs of triumph are laced inklings of frustration. It occured to me that this chan.ge was the result of Ani making it to the relative top and not liking what she’s found there.

TOLD may fans who used to appreciate her insight and her fight against bureacracy now appreciate her because she is cute. Too many people are cheering for her without feeling with her.

She is in danger of becoming merely a symbol for our generation’s fight against all that is bad, and I suspect that she may resent this. She has tried in so many ways to remain outside of a recognizable category that to label her as a symbol would show her fight to be in vain. I can only hope that her fans will not allow her to be demeaned in this way.

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A 50s sock hop Plumtree w/Broken Girl, Sianspheric and Curb Vuzcano

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hursday night, the Volcano saw four bands come together into one amazing show. East coasters Plumtree and Broken Girl teamed up with Burlington’s Sianspheric and Cambridge’s Curb for an evening ofextremely varied sounds. Fortunately, all of these varied sounds were also extremely good.

First up was the recently revamped Curb, who took this opportunity to play their first show as a duo.

Guitarists Sarah Butler and Rob Pot-ton have paired up just right, allowing for their guitar and vocal overlaps to shine through and be heard for what they’re worth.

While some bands wouldn’t be able to survive losing their bassist and drummer, Sarah’s voice (now incredibly audible) compensated for whatever loss Curb has endured.

Sianspheric took the stage and swallowed it whole. Almost exactly two years and a month since their conception, Sian have improved by incredible Plumtree lengths to create a show that rocks and soothes at the same time. Aside from lead singer and bassist Steve Peruzzi’s rock star antics, Sianspheric hit their music with a concentrated, headon force strong enough to knock you over. Besides that, on this particular evening they played the best feedback and delay session that I’ve ever seen.

Next up was Moncton’s Broken Girl, a.k.a. Julie Doiron-Claytor of legendary noise rock band Eric’s Trip, playing her own special songs

by herself on a distortion-free electric guitar. Broken Girl is absolutely beautiful. Julie gave of herself to us; she bared her soul and shared her innermost thoughts and feelings through her music. It’s a shame that some idiots at the Volcano couldn’t sit down and shut up long enough to appreciate her songs; she certainly didn’t appreciate their ignorance.

There were, however, several members of the audience who could have listened

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to Julie play all night long, so she fortunately played her captivating set for them.

Melodic harmonies. High energy rock and roll. Touching sentiments and vicious tongue lashings.

Halifax’s Pfumtree managed to cover all the bases with their enthusiastic brand of bouncy, straight ahead sound. Plumtree’s innocence and experience emanates from them simultaneously, With lyrics ranging from “I think I’ll get a Barbie

instead” to “I don’t know how it feels to be all alone, but from what I felt back then I don’t want it the girls in Plumtree any-more,” showed us their playful and serious sides back to back.

Playing gems from their first few releases and their recently released CD entitledMass Teen Fuinting, Plumtree could very we11 have been playing to a SO’s sock-hop rather than to the 90’s Volcano crowd, of which maybe three people were bouncing their heads. Despite the fact that they were dancing and bouncing for all of us, guitarists Carla Gillis and Amanda Braden seemed to have a great time on stage.

Plumtree are probably the only band that can be extraordinarily happy while playing songs with seemingly spitetil undertones.

With drummer Lynette Gillis and new bassist Catriona Sturton holding down Plumtree’s lively rhythm section, they played established songs such as “In The Sink” and “The Phone The Phone” as well as newer winners like “I Don’t Know” and “Tropical,” allowing each of the band’s members to take a turn at the microphone.

They also hit us up with an especially new tune called “Scott Pilgrim,” their tribute to a fi-iend who’s been an angel towards them on this tour.

Plumtree’s set and infectious stage presence Thursday night was enough to put a smile on anyone’s face. Appealing to folk of all ages, the band definitely has a place in the present and titure of Canadian music. On this evening of four great bands, one common feeling was clear: while Sianspheric and Curb will be undoubtedly playing locally again soon, the sounds of Broken girl and Plumtree are welcome in Ontario anytime.

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Scheduled opener Tom Wilson cancelled just hours before the doors opened at Fed Hall, leaving the Headstones to warm up the crowd of over five hundred by themselves.

Getting a crowd moving isn’t usually a problem for the Headstones.

But Hugh Dillon and crew had just driven down from Ottawa for this gig, and it showed.

The Headstones seemed sluggish that night, mere approximations of their usual rambunctious live show, Without the benefit of an opener, too, only a few dozen people hit the floor for the first couple of songs. Perhaps their most energetic song, the reworking of

“Tweeter and the Monkey Man,” was badly placed in the set. Coming barely three songs into the night, it was too early for a decent response.

Hugh Dillon’s stage presence seemed forced, like he was going through the motions of his usual routine. A veteran tourer, like Hugh, ofcourse, can put on a good show in his sleep. It just wasn’t a greal show, which is what one should be able to expect from the Headstones.

The waving of hands and microphone stands was more of a token attempt. One Headstones trademark not abated, however, was the constant stream of expectoration flying betwixt audience and performers. By the end of the show, there wasn’t a dry eye (or face, or t-shirt) in the mosh pit.

Somewhere in the middle of the show, a young fan managed to evade the burly frontline guard and surf himself onstage. Dillon him-

self fought off the bouncers and put a mike in the intruder’s hand, to let him sing the last verse of the song.

“I did that five years ago at a 13 Engines show,” Hugh confided.

From then on, things seemed to change. The Headstones were knockedout ofautopilot.

The sound was still fuzzy, but there was a new energy flowing from the stage, and the band launched into an extended version of Picture ofI%~~lth’s “Oh My God,” incorporating a sadistic She@ Crow cover (“All I Wanna Do (Is Get a Gun)“) and the chorus of “New Orleans Is Sinking” (by Kingston’s other infamous rockers .)

A few gallons of saliva later, it was over. The last time 1 saw the Headstones, for their September Fed Hall appearance, I had to be dragged home.

This time I dragged myself home, hoping that the next time things would work out better.

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Lancerpallooza: Complete Disarray, Boobies, Tadpole, Preschool, Shoemaker-Levy, Ludes Elmira District Secondary H S. Wednesday February 28

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ancerpallooza, host to a couple hundred teenagers, a shitty gymnasium sound system, and seven bands. Six of the bands were from the school; Shoemaker-Levy were ringers from Kitchener.

The whole show was like watching the evolution of modern Canadian rock in fast-fonvard, from fairly mediocre cover bands to one of the best bands I’ve ever seen.

As I walked in, Complete Disarray were covering “New Orleans is Sinking.” Not a good omen. Then again, just about every band on earth started out this way, covering top 40 hits in their garage. Give ‘em a few years - they’re only in grade ten.

The Boobies also played covers, going from “Money for Nothing” to “Black Wedding.” The punk versions of “My Ding-A-Ling” and “Jesus Loves Me” were quite entertaining, although the best thing about the Boobies is their

McCracken-like stage act. There were a couple decent originals, although somehow I think I’ve heard them before. Then again, Rancid are really just a cover band too.

Just when I was starting to get disheartened, Tadpole took the stage. Here are a few guys ready to come out of the garage. Solid original songwriting, a very cool drummer, and they don’t wear their influences on their t-shirt sleeves like most young rockers.

They hate alternative people.

They hate idiots. They hate St. Clemens. Preschool hate yrm and they want you to die. Some fun hardcore punk, like DOA without the politics, but with all the anger.

Preschodl have a few shows under their bio and consequently were the first to bring a mature (the word is used quite loosely) stage presence to the stage. Their “Alternative Song” does to CFNY’s play list what Radio Free Vestibule’s “Grunge Song” did to grange, basking in lyrical simplicity.

Halfway through ShoemakerLevy’s set, I stopped feeling like I was at a high school battle of the bands, and started feeling like I was at a real concert somewhere that just h&d like a gym. They seemed quite out of place amidst the heavier and faster Elmira bands;

Shoemaker-L,evy don’t b punk..

They do fine artistic tunes almost, but not quite, of the prog-rock variety. It’s musicianship you have to admire but can’t really mosh to, confusing some of the audience after Preschool’s aggressive set.

Finally, the Ludes. The Ludes are the best thing to come out of Elmirasince... well... ummm... The Ludes are the best thing ever to come out ofElmira. Not many bands can cram as many styles and influences into one set as the Ludes and have everything come out so damn close to perfection. Everything from pop to metal to surf showed up in their music, the highlight of which was the rousing instrumental “Caterpillar,” which seems designed as a kind of Young Person ‘s Guide to the Rock Band, showcasing every sound imaginable from the boring old drums, bass, and guitar. Pick up their CD Lieder for a taste of the Ludes’ talent .

The verdict?

There’s some great music to be found fresh from the sock hop. There are the beginner bands like Complete Disarray and the Boobies, in much need of more practice and adjustment. Tadpole and Preschool are quite promising. Shoem,aker-Levy are already there. And the Ludes just plain fucking rock.

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ichard Gwyn’s Nationalism Without Walls: The Unbearble Lightness @Being Canadian is a masterpiece.

He successfully argues that the social and economic forces sweeping the world will effect Canada more radically than any other country.

Many remember Gwyn best for his biography of Canada’s last great leader, The NorChern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians.

I picked up this latest work and began reading with great expectations.

“For about a decade now, Canada’s national consciousness has been ground down in-between... the effect upon us of the global economy, and.., the effect of continental free trade,” Gwyn writes early in the book. From there, he goes on to tie together the world’s situation with enough to detail to make his point.

He predicts China’s return to warlord fiefdom’s or perhaps civil war after the death of Deng Xiaoping, then looks at our southern neighbour, and quotes a I995 Navsweek poll which reported that “one in three Americans doubt that their country will be around in one piece in a century’s time.”

Canada stands unusual from the great majority of nations, according to Gwyn, for several reasons: one part ofcanada is perfectly capable of becoming an independent nation-state; our language is

inherited from another country; we’ve never had to fight for independence; and ‘Lye are among the fewpeoples ofthe world who, given a chance to become Americans, have chosen not to,” Gwyn describes the Free Trade Agreement as the “economic equivalent of our having enacted the Meech Lake Accord and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms combined,” and goes on to justify the argument quite well. He quotes Ronald Reagan who described the FTA as “an economic constitution for North America,” and defends the opinion excellently.

He quotes the former head of the C.D. Howe Institute as comparing the FTA to “sovereignty-association between Canada and the United States.”

This is Gwyn’s strength: he provides specific arguments from wellknown authorities, and builds himself the general context within which the arguments make sense.

In a chapter titled “A la Carte Americans,” Gwyn separates the elite’s need to defend Canadian values from the beliefs of ordinary Canadians.

“To most Canadians,” Gwyn writes, “TV was American TV, films were American films, and the same applied to books, magazines, music, entertainment, clothes, food, housing, and technology.”

He continues, “For millions,MY CANADA INCLUDES FLORIDA as a Maclean’s cover put it brilliantly.. .”

The book only improves as Cwyn moves on from economic matters to social and political topics. Gwyn takes aim with his traditional style at the rights-based society Canada has become recently,

and elaborates brilliantly on the consequences for our social fabric.

Canadia? courts have advanced “groups rights over individual rights further in Canada than in any other jurisdiction.”

Gwyn provides an example of a Supreme Court Justice claiming that “male judges were inherently biased, and so could nort be impartial in cases where the accused was a woman.”

Multiculturalism is a similar target.

Gwyn argues that the multiculturalism program “dished out grants, including to ethnic organizations specifically created for the purpose of receiving them,” He later writes that until the lMOs, “the most explicit discrimination in Ontario was the almost-total exclusion of Catholics from positions of financial, economic, and political power in the province -theoreticall:y entitling them to a claim of having been historically disadvantaged.”

A 1989 Decima poll determined that majority support for multiculturalism existed in only one demographic group: cclllege educated English-Canadians.

Gwyn finishes by tying together the implications of everything he has addressed.

The best thing about The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian is that while Gwyn brings forth some nasty. consequences of Free Trade, of multiculturalism, of the rise of judicial influence on politics, he often sounds like he is in favour of these policies. At the very least, he acknowledges that these programs were created with the best of intentions, but lhat they are having an impact beyond that intended.

This book simply must be read.

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by GrtgPicken Imprint staff “I came tu Las Vegas to drink myserf to death, not to force my twisted soul into your l&fk ” iven all the critical acclaim given to Leaving Las Vegas since its release, I was wary about going to see it, G fearing it to be another boring and clichkd “feel-better-about-your-own-life” kind of movie. Thankfully, I was as wrong as I have ever been. This movie left a taste as bitter as bourbon in my mouth, and a feeling of awkwardness and confusion in my mind. I was clear on one thing though: Leaving Las Vegas is without a doubt the best film I have seen in many years, and easily one of the best I’ve seen in my life.

Leaving Las Vegas is a riveting, entertaining and above all frightening film.

Roughly, it’s about Ben, played marvelously

by Nicholas Cage, a scriptwriter in L.A. who gets fired and decides to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. There, he meets Sera, the somewhat cliched but very effective prostitute played by Elisabeth Shue. These two characters dominate the plot, with very few other characters and a few star cameos.

The atmosphere Mike Figgis creates is beautiful. He not only directed the film and wrote the screenplay, but is also credited with creating the original music. This trio of credits gave him the perfect opportunity to create all elements of the film as he wanted.

The camera work is nothing extraordinary, but effective. What does stand out is the use

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Nicholas Cage puts in a performance well worthy of his Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He spends almost every scene in the movie with a bottle or a glass in his hand, including one memorable shot where he downs an entire mickey while sitting in a strip club. He in fact does force the twisted soul of Ben into the viewer’s life, bringing out both sympathy and revulsion.

Elisabeth Shue is also very effective, if slightly more patterned. She plays the hookerwith-a-heart-of-gold, who takes Cage in and tries to care for him. My biggest complain with the film, and it’s relatively minor, is the scene in which Shue is raped by a trio of (apparently) college guys. It seems that almost every serious film involving a prostitute sees at least one rape scene, calling into question the safety of the profession.

The plot could have survived without it, but since it is the only legimate complaint I have with this movie, I’m not too concerned.

The last time I felt myself moved in such a way, was after watching Less Than Zero.

What Less Than Zero was to cocaine use is almost exactly what Leaving Las Vegas is to alcohol. They share similar plot threads and character templates, and both provide a chilling tale of substance abuse and death.

The Oscar people felt that Babe, the story of a talking pig, was better than this film. On Oscar night, skip the awards and go see Leaving Las Vegas. I guarantee it will be a better use of your time.

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by Melissa Dietrich Imprint staH rice again the crew of the Muppets get together to entertain an audience 0 of both children and the children at heart in Muppet Treasure iskand. You will find all your favourite characters in the film, from Kermit The Frog to the adorable Beaker.

The movie resembled an extended version of one of the Muppet Shows that used to run on television.

It was full of musical numbers, performed by the Muppets and the human actors. It was also packed fir11 ofjokes and witty remarks including one made by the Great Gonzo that poked fun at Mickey Mouse.

Ironically, I found this movie was made more for adults than for children.

Although this movie was extremely en-

tertaining I might have some disappointing news for any Miss Piggy fans out there.

She only appears in the movie for the last half an hour.

Being a fan of Miss Piggy, I found myself waiting and waiting for “the big pig” to make her grand entrance.

However, when she made her entrance she did make the best of her screen time and dazzled her audience, with her wonderful singing voice and acting abilities.

I think she definitely deserves an Academy Award for this performance.

There are also guest performances by the Swedish Chef, Animal and the two grumpy old men who make fun of the writers and actors of the movie, as usual.

As in all the Muppet movies, Kermit and Miss Piggy share a musical number where they profess their undying love for one another. It was really touching and managed to bring tears to my eyes.

The other musical numbers included in the movie were full of energy and excitement, as well as an occasional Beaker flying across the screen. I won’t say any more about the movie because I don’t want to ruin the whole thing for you.

Although I went to see the movie on a cheap night, it is well worth paying the full eight bucks to see. And believe it or not it is a good movie to take your dateto. To sum up the movie in one word I would have to say that it was cute. I definitely recommend that you go and see it .

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At home, he hooks up with his old buddies, all of whom are as unreal about women as he is as we11 as being stuck going nowhere. They ares till doing the same boring things that they have always done, achieving nothing, same as always.

Tommy (Matt Dillon), the most popular guy in high school, spends his winter not only plowing the streets of the town, but also his ex-girlfriend, Darian (Lauren Holly).

Other than the facts that Darian is a married mother and Tommy has a loving girlfriend, prom night doesn’t seem to have ended for these two. There is also Paul (Michael Rapaport), a supermodel-obsessed sfob unable and unwilling to choose between his girlfriend, Jan, and his Playboys. He passes time blocking Jan’s driveway with snow (yes, they are all snowplowers) and fantasizing about his vision of the ideal woman, namely the naked kind. He even names his St. Bernard Elle Macpherson.

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To him, Maw, although unattainable (she’s not of legal age) exemplifies the beauty ofpossibility.

Portman brings a cool-headed maturity and wisdom.

Uma Thurman plays Andrea., Willie’s other female confidant. She too is a beautifirl girl with a down-to-earth personality; that is, she looks good and drinks whisky.

With Willie, she shares a surprisingly real friendship, while ignoring the drooling tongues of the other men in the movie. Andera points out to these men the impossibility of obtaining their fantasy women, without laughing in their faces as she could have.

As stories go, Beautijhl Girls gets pretty tired. It lacks the comedic touch it needs, and although occasionally endearing, it tends to drag on. Many of the little sub-plots are uninteresting and would have been better left out. Had director Ted Demme concentrated instead on the relationship between Marty and Willie, the movie would have come across in a more perceptive and intelligent way. Most of other characters, both male and female, could easily have been disposed of without any harm done. The strong female figures of Andera and Marty are f+esh approaches to women and Damme should have focused the movie on them. If he had, the film would have been well worth lingering over.

As it is, BeautiJirl Girls merely reiterates the fact that you can’: always get what you want.

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Imprint staff From the sick, twisted, and crack-infested back alleys of New York city streets comes the Refugee Camp, otherwise known as Fugees.

The crew’s second fulllength release, The Score, is at once a striking intellectual gem of enlightening proportions that has emerged at precisely the right time -strategically dismantling all half-stepping, weak-kneed, perpetrators claiming consciousness, yet spewing fecal material.

The underground explosion of their debut landmine single, Vocab, established the Haitian-native Fugees as one of the tightest forces in hip-hop.

Heads everywhere knew that the raggamuffin trio, with the beautiful, fulllipped, lead MC, Lauryn Hill, and the off-beat, mystical, coming-from-awhole-different-level-type flow of the bearded and often unappreciated “Pras” and Wyclef, would re-appear with some untouchable black gold. Who, however, could have predicted they would return with lyrical genius reminiscent of the Socratic era, and beats sicker than the leprosy-ridden biblical character of Job? After the “Red Intro,” track number ~0, “How Many Mics, “ sparks off the creative madness.

This track is untouchable like Y&R’s Victor Newman.

Then, with perfect progression, “Ready Or Not” drops with the potency of a voodoo elixir coupled with the

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special to Imprint Ah, “post-rock.”

A happy deconstruction of the conventions of rock and roll as we know them.

No guitars. No verses or choruses.

In fact, no words or vocals at all.

Just gentle, ambient sound palettes that don’t demand your close attention, but rather discourage it.

All of which is fine; I try to maintain a laissez-faire attitude toward alternative rock lifestyles.

What’s curious, though, is the considerable heat collecting around Tortoise’s slim body of work. For crafting a sound that is, to be brutally frank, not all that far removed from new-age wallpaper, Tortoise have been rewarded with hip indie-

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With two additional bonus remixes on the disc, one can get a good dose of the Fugee drug. A drug indeed because no true head can listen to this album just once and throw it away like a dirty syringe.

No, it must be played again and again just like the crack pipe must be sucked on a few times to get the full effects of the hit.

Like munchies hit the spot after a weed session, “Family Business” and “Killing Me Softly” are

like a couple of musical twinkies.

The satisfying beats sit well in the stomach, while the lyrical cream tastes sweeter than that flu@ white junk in the middle of them Hostess things. The tribute to the original Roberta Flack version of “Killing Me... ” is on point like an exclamation. Verbal assaults handed out from the title track “The Score,” are deadly and potentially fatal, while the disturbing images of “Cowboys” will wreak havoc on soft brains.

Bob Marley’s legacy lives on in the cover of “No Woman, No Cry,” which is dedicated to refugees worldwide.

“Manifest/Outro” will have some people not even seeing where the Fugees are coming from, kind of like those clumps of birdsh*t that fall on suckers domes in the summer.

“Where the hell are they coming from?” will be heard from the mouths of those unable to follow their intricate diallect.

With this solid record, Fugees have the potential to seriously blow up the spot, providing people choose to support these three legal aliens and quit wasting their money on played out punk kids who wear their clothes backwards.

If Fugees are not high on your list of must-have records, then your collection will be incomplete.

Don’t be afraid to enter their sphere if you have been void of their influence thus far.

And if you have the first album, you’re going to tip on this joint.

The essence of hip hop, ill-laced with try-to-be hustlers and tired, water-gun toting, ‘studio gangsters,’ can once again be realized with this sophomore project. Look into your own mind to find out what time it is, and then look to Fugees for The Score.

rock buzz band status. Their sudden hipness may be interpreted as a cold light cast on one of two things (which one depends on your degree of cynicism, I suppose): the bankruptcy of most other modern rock as we know it, or the scarily snowballing effect of a little well-placed hype.

Not that there aren’t good things to say about the second Tortoise album, A4iZZions Now Living WiZZ Never Die. The sound, appealing if austere, consists of a minimalist mix of bass, keyboard and percussion, but manages to recombine those three elements in enough unpredictable ways to keep the record afloat for forty-plus minutes. And the group’s songwriting is nothing if not complex: the leadoff cut “Djed” (Djed’s dead, baby, Djed’s dead) is a twenty-minute marathon that includes almost half a dozen distinct musical passages.

But the Tortoise aesthetic is a deliberately diffident one. MilIiolts

Now Living doesn’t slip unintentionally into the realm of background musicrather, it works hard at it. The tempos are almost unformly lackadaiscal and the volume knobs are set low, so that at times the sounds the group creates seem almost to be pitched at a level that only dogs (or, at least, Manhattan’s indie-rock elite) can hear.

That said, there’s still the group’s undeniable musical virtuosity to appreciate, and the patient and attentive will tid that Millions Now Living, like the fast Tortoise record, becomes more slyly charming all the time. But those unwilling to abandon pop-rock sensibilitites altogether may be doomed to disappointment, and would perhaps be better off stepping sideways to the Sea and Cake’s catalogue. Close cousins to Tortoise (in fact, they share mainman John McEntire) that group blends a similarly pastel hue of sound, but within a more straightforward songwriting style.

blinding power of mace tainted with battery acid. Tracks like these have me wondering how people who claim to be down with hop can sleep on the ‘Gees while sausage filler like Bone Thugs and Garbage (or Harmony for all you misguided fans) can surge to platinum status.

“Zealots” is a vibe rich with mellow funk and sprays verbal ammunition in all directions with paralysing verses and the damaging chorus: “another MC loses life tonight.”

Proceeding with the flavor, the album’s kick-off single, “Fu-gee-

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There was a time when the name “Lou Reed” on a recording meant something.

After all, this is the man who gave us “Walk on the Wild Side”, “Heroin” and “Sweet Jane.” And who could forget his Metal Machine Music album? The name “Lou Reed” used to mean the music would be something groundbreaking, something people would be listening to in twenty or thirty years. Perhaps the name of “Lou Reed” still means something, but with his latest release it seems he has passed the twilight of his creativity.

In all fairness, I should say that if anyone else released Se2 the Twilight Reeling I would have called it a great album, (although, perhaps, a Lou Reed rip-off), but the fact is that this wasn’t released by just anyone; this is Lou Reed.

This is a man whose music has influenced everyone from Cowboy Junkies to Die Krupps! Maybe I’m expecting too much out of him, but

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xmprint staff Turn on the radio; same old, same old. Unfortunately the sound hasn’t varied in a while. But some bands have been able to make that sound likable and enjoyable.

1000 Mona Lisas has been able to do this quite nicely. If you like Offspring, you will like this CD. But they have also been able to make their sound distinctly their own, which is also very hard to do. They are defmitely not your average background music. This is the type of CD that could fade into the background but is definitely better enjoyed loud.

1 had hoped this would be another one of his groundbreaking albums that people will be listening to in thirty years. It isn’t.

There really isn’t anythingnew on this CD. The songs themselves are new, but it’s the same old Lou Reed style that we’ve all heard before. The music is very well done, with Reed’s typically crunchy, feedbacking solos and a strong steady band backing him up, with the occasional acoustic piece here and there. But, musically, this could have been taken from one of his old albums and no one would know the difference.

Set Ihe Twilight ReeIing sounds like the last Lou Reed album with different lyrics.

Lyrically, it seems like Reed’s babbling more than in the past, but it is an interesting collection ofbabble. He has songs about Egg Cream, New York City men, “Sex With Your Parents (Motherticker)” and some introspective stuff about finding his new self.

But the new self sounds a lot like the old self, not that that’s a bad thing, but with this album, Lou Reed seems to be stagnating. If you liked the last few albums, you’ll like Set the Twilight Reeling. If you’re looking for something different and new, keep looking.

It’s also great to kick back to.

As I’ve already mentioned, they have a kick-ass sound. Not every song is great but most ofthem are. My favourite songs on the CD are the ones that they lighten up on like “Tenanian,” or my personal favourite “Vile of Blue,” an upbeat tune with loads of attitude; perfect.

The lyrics are stylin’!

Definitely different and in your face cool along with the song titles and album cover.

The album, as a whole, has a excellent feel and really grasps the concept of what good music is. The fmt song sucks you in and by the end ofthe CD you’re left with wanting more. I, for one, am looking foMrard to see what this band comes out with next. I can safely say that almost anything they did would perfectly compliment what they’ve done so far.

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Imprint staff Aliens are among us. At least, that’s what Sweden’s Hypocrisy would have us believe. The multi-iimlauted trio of Peter Ttitgren, Lars Szijke and Mikael Hedlund also believe that the best way to expose this conspiracy of silence is by screaming their thoughts overtop a background of trance-like death metal. Abducted is a strange sort of release, almost laughable in its wholehearted sincerity of belief. Guess who’s been reading too much Whitley Strieber lately?

Upon popping Abducted into the stereo, the first thing one hears is “The Gathering,” a full minute of what appears to be a real-life recording of a jet pilot in pursuit of “moving red lights.” Backed with an eerie instrumental, the listener crashes into “Roswell 47.”

Yes, that Roswell, lightning rod for nearly every UFO buff and government conspiracy theorist for the last fifty years. There’s something in the lyrics about “national security”

by Niger Clarke spechl to Imprint Contrary to popular belief, Techno isnot all the same, and Space Time Continuum prove to be a very apt example of this. In fact, for every Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld or Snivilisation there’s truckloads of Emil Ecaps out there - albums that aren’t terrible, just ovenvhealmingly mediocre.

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by Brian Sweet special to Imprint When you think of La Bouche, what has to come to mind first are their two massive club hits, “Be My Lover,” and “Sweet Dreams”.

If you really like these songs, buy the singles; the rest of this album is a collection of bad mixes and R&B tracks.

Of the 14 tracks, only about 4: “Be My Lover”, “Sweet Dreams”, ‘I Love to Love,” and “Tonight is the Night (by Le Clir-’ -? art solid danceable tracks. If you’ve hci ? the single release of “I Love to Love,” however, the mix on this CD is not nearly as highNRG, in fact, is laid-back and almost acoustic.

‘The rest of the CZ is slow, mellow, and hardly worth mentioning.

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assault method practiced by most North American metalheads in favour of a more patiently developed plan of attack. The drums are kept surprisingly far back in the mix, leaving a decidedly uncrunchy rhythm guitar to set the pace.

The result is a sound that’s not as grabbing as most major death metal, although it is easier to listen to and allows musical subtleties not readily available in the American style.

The most surprising thing about Abducted is the last three songs. Hypocrisy dare to be melodic, with soft keyboards on the soundtrackish “Reflections’knd lightly soaring guitars on “Slippin’ Away” and the closing track “Drained.”

Tgtgren almost pulls off the required soft vocal. Almost.

Apart from the experimental sotiess of the closing tracks, however, Abducted is just another death metal record. There’s nothing for the listener to bring away from the CD except a sense of pity for the gullibility of three decent Swedish musicians who have fallen for a lot of paranoiac conspiracist bunkum. Aliens among us. What a load of bull.

Excuse me. Xyblor is calling, and I must return to the mothership.

listening to this release is Autechre, in that they both use very spare instrumentation, light on the bass, with lots of plinky plonky keyboards and sound shards. At times this can make for some harsh listening, but on opener “Iform” it works well, all melodious and building upward.

However, besides this and the electro sound of the sixth track “Out here,” Space Time Continuum make for unoriginal and dull aural wallpaper.

There’s nothing really else to say here - it’s faceless, nameless, and ultimately pointless diddling on keyboards that attempts to pass for some fine art. ..and doesn’t.

A great album for falling asleep to.

where it is due, however, the female vocals are excellent, as is all the vocal talent. It is a nice CD to sit back and listen to when you are in that mellow mood and just want to relax to some music.

As with most dance albums, the CD is rounded out with 2 remixes.

Unfortunately, in this case of Sweet Dreams, they are really bad remixes.

Okay, so the Spike Mix of “Fallin’ in Love” is good, but so was the original, and the mix lacks something special so you just sit there and go “why?”

On the other hand, the remix of “Be My Lover [House Mix]“, is just crap. I don’t E-nclw ,vhy they called it the “House” mix. I’d c;ll it the “R&B” mix, or the “Slow and Ronng” mix, or the ‘Don’t Listen to This” mix.

This song has amazing high-NRC remixes that you get on the dancefloor (or the single), and the choice of this mix for the CD is almost disappointing.

Nevertheless, overall the CD is decent if you want something not too fast or exciting.

solidly astute about socia1 commentary, we get songs on here like “Can U Hear Me?” and “Why U Gotta Be Feelin Like Dat” that are merely typical ego-rap. While there’s nothing wrong with this, (virtually every rap act does these sorts of songs) it somehow dosen’t ring true with Speech. “Yo

total washout, but for someone so highly praised in the beginning of his career, this comes nowhere near to living up to that promise.

I think a Michael Stipe solo work would be much better.

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by Andrew Henderson Imprint Stan It took me a long while before coming to a decision with regards to my like or dislike of this album.

The verdict: a definite lukewarm effort with moments of brilliance but more of tedium.

Marry Me Jane frontwoman Amanda Kravat’s vocal style is as hot and cold as the CD itself. At times she takes over songs with her powerful lyrics and singing style, (tracks such as “Athena” and “Misunderstood” come to mind), but other times she loses control and the vocals become whiny and annoylng.

1 don’t know how long this band has been together, but I think they are far from perfecting a unique

style of their own. As I said before, this CD has a few solid tracks, but overall is very generic and same-y, if you will.

Perhaps you know that this band has written a bunch of songs (nine I believe) for the upcoming film If Lucy Fell. This album features these nine plus four (five if you count the hidden bonus track, but take my word, it’s not worth counting) other tracks that break with the style of the soundtrack tunes. These are the most interesting tracks on the album.

They demonstrate an aspiring artistic credo that is absent from the better part of the CD. It is hard to describe the style of music Marry Me Jane plays, but trust me, it’s nothing you haven’t already heard several times before.

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trick ponies, they also slide easily into material like “Sweet Thursday,” which puts you dreaming on the Left Bank of the Seine, and “Fortune Cookie,” which sounds like it’s taken right out of the Burt

Bacharach songbook.

If that sounds like it’s going to make you puke, fear not, because the songs are gorgeous.

Try it... you’ll like it.

Even better, the songs exude class, featuring stylish horn arrangements and lovely singing that moves elegantly between English and Japanese.

There’s also the whack0 novelty kitsch stuff like “Good.”

On the one hand it sounds like disposable fluff, but after a few listens you’ll be hooked and making comparisons to1 the best of the Dream Warriors and De La Soul.

Not to be outdone are songs like “No. 5’” and “Airplane,” which are just flat out great pop.

You’ll be amazed how this Japanese trio has consumed popular American culture and music and regurgitated it in such a fresh and unassuming manner.

If you’ve not yet experienced the sensation that is Pizzicato Five, you’d do well to buy either this record or their previous.

I’ve also heard a fistful of singles and EPs, but the albums definitely seem a much better value and give full dimension to the group’s many talents and stylings.

bands.

They start off the CD with a little overture (attempting what only Jim Morrison could do) and right off the bat, failed to grasp the concept of music and whining about how ugly, useless, untalented they are and why no one should love them. A common mistake in daring to be unique is self-pity but never before have I heard it to these extremes.

The music (or MacDonalds tunes) is extremely boring, calm and depressing. They sound like a cross between Moist and Alice in Chains during a holocaust. This CD is an absolute downer. After I had listened to all 1 could stand, I turned on the Care Bears to cheer myself up again, On to their sound! The singer seems to think he is Jim Morrison

reincarnated.

I think he sounds more like ‘Tom Petty doing opera.

Not a pretty sight (or sound as the case may be).

The lyrics are less than adequate and extremely annoying.

Kind of 1ik;e listening to a two year old from hell singing Power Rangers. Plus everything sounds exactly the same! Nothing with any real beat. The whole thing is really kind of dead.

Other than the fact that they sound like a bad 80’s soft rock banti from hell, they need to work on getting away from ali the depressing bullshit; they should let go ;And have some fun. And if you haven’t gotten the point yet, I recommend this CD to only those who really, really hate themselves.

What I’m saying is, they SUCK.

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Last year the Japanese trio Pizzicato Five jumped into North American brains, souls and minds with Made in. USA, a continental debut which was actually the group’s twentieth-or-so release.

Sampling heavily from American jazz, pop, R&I3 and soul from the 60s and 7Os, the Pizzicato Five sounded a lot like Dee-Lite (albeit, suprisingly enough, even catchier) and found their music pulsating on the runways of Paris and Milan.

Now comes the follow-up,% Sound of Music, which is a stacked full-hour of tunage that’s even better than the predecessor.

The songs that immediately leap out as dancefloor faves are *‘Happy Sad” and “Groovy is My Name.” Both are brilliantly constructed, unbelievably catchy, and unique in their effortless charm.

You can’t get enough of these songs.

Not content to be simply one-

by Sarah Reinhart Imprlllt staff They are absolutely terrible!

Awful! Disrespectful of artists with actual talent! I would rather pay double price to go see the New Kids on the Block, in concert than to have to listen to Noodle House again. A lot of new and aspirering bands are trying to sound different, some end up sounding different and some end up sounding the same but none have ever ended up sounding like total and utter crap. This band tried (and failed) to pull little bits and pieces from successful

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Join alumni as they share advice on the job search strategies that get results. 9-4 p.m. Contact Jayne Hayden, ext. 2005or go to HH 145.

MARCH i&l996 Swan Song will take place at the University of Waterloo Humanities Theatre at 2:3O p.m. To reserve tickets call the Box Off ice 888-4908.

MARCH 11,1996 A new ecology garden - based on a Northern Ontario forest landscape is being planned. Come out to the information meeting at 12:OO noon in the E.S. Courtyard.

MARCH 13,1996 Coming Out Discussion Group explores issues in sexual orientation.

Topic: Gaydar...Does It Exist?. 7:30 p.m., ML1 04. InformatIon: 884-4569. Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered people and those questioning theirsexuality are welcome.

MARCH 15,1996 Career Services is seeking volunteers to be trained as Student Career Advisors (SCA’s). SCA’s advise their peers on career pfanningijob search techniques.

Two to three hours/week time committment is required for 2 terms (not necessarily consecutive) plus outreach program and meeting time. Full training is provided.

SCA Supervisor is also needed, small honorarium provided.

Applications in Career Resource Centre, NH 1115 due March 15th, or read complete details and print application from our web site @ http:// www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocecs/CRC/ Career-Resource-Centre.htmi.

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EVERY TUESDAY To become a better public s eaker,

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EVERY WEDNESDAY Gay and Lesbian Liberation of Waterloo sponsors GLLOWNight, a social evening. 9p.m. ML 104. Meetoldfriends and make new ones. All welcome.

Waterloo Science Fiction Club WatSFiC) meetin 7:OO p.m. in SLC h 135, Student life ‘isentra, UW. Brin a board or card games to play aflerwar %s.

See uw.clubs.watsfic or mail watsfic@?calum.csclub.uwaterloo.cafor details.

Certificate Program in teaching English as a second language at The Waterloo Centre for Applied Linguistics Inc. For info call (519) 725-9070.

Transportation to the Vineyard. Free shuttleavailable every Sunday-from U of W to the Kitchener Vineyard’s meetin at the Concord& Club. For a ride, call &I di at 57943463 before Friday noon.

Those interested in a career asa Certified Management Accountant are invited to at-

tend to a talk bv Joseoh Palumbo on Tuesday, March 26in NH i02Ofrom 3:30 - 5130. stiff neck, shoulders or back? Cost of massage by professional therapist is covered by UW’s health plan. Reduce tension from studying, call Cameron Moffatt at 7479520.

Support ti Bowferama Fundraiser for the benefit of the French and Mahaffy families in coping with financial realities of their tragedy, on Sat., March 16. For more info call Danny DeFrancesco (416) 421-2211 or

Business $10/20 words ($0.25

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Needed: Volunteer ComputerTutor:

Learn about a diierent culture while you show a new immigrant how to be part of your community. For more information call the K-W YMCA Host Program at 579 9622.

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Male voluntwr sought for gentleman with disability, wishing to shoot pool/billiards.

For more information call Kris at 74t -2226.

Be a Big Sister Volunteer. If you are 20 or older and feel you can make a positive difference in a child’s life, K-W and area Big Sisters needs you. Female volunteers are required to develop relationships with girls (aged4-17)andboys(aged4-11).

Youare required to provide 3 hours a week for a minimum of one year. We are also in need of Big Sisters from a Jamaican, African and Latin American decent. Please call 743 5206 for more information.

International Students Need EnglishTutars. Volunteers are needed to tutor in-

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ternational students in oral and written English on a one-twne basis. Tutor meets international students on campus for l-2 hours, usually once a week for one term. If you have a good working knowledge of English, are patient, friendty, dependable, and would like to volunteer, register at the Interna&& Student office, NH 2080, or dl Darlene Ryan, ext. 2814 for more informatbn.

Do your thing for the local environment.

GREENBACKS recycIesnon-blueboxpfastics. We need your help once a month for 2 hours. Next recycling Satu&y, Manzh 231’ 96. Please call Greenbacks at 7254293 to join in.

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unteers are needed to tutor senior part& pants of our Computer Literacy Interest Pilot Project (CLIPP). Advanced knowledge of Windows applications is required.

A time commitment of 4 flexible hours per week is required.

Needed: Income Tax Volunteer: volunteers are needed to complete income tax forms for seniors. A commitment of 4 sessions which are 3 hours in length is required.

Volunteer Driver: Do you have a car and some free time? A volunteer driver is needed to drive seniors from their home to a senior day program. Time commitment wouldbeFriday93U10:15a.m.and3:304:00 p.m. Mileage is reimbursed. For information please call: Volunteer Services, City of Waterloo, 888&I#3.

Needed Volunteer Baby-sitter: Volunteers are needed to assist with a children’s playgroupheldonThursdaymomings9:30 - 1130 am. Responsibilities include reading stories, creative movement and playing with children. Must have previous experience working with preschoolers.

Needed Volunteer Shopper: Do you enjoy shopping and helping those in need?

This shopping program is to assist older adu!fsunabletodotheirowngrocetyshopping and have no other means of purchasing groceries and deliver groceries.

VdunteefKitchenAssistant:areneedecl to assist with a senior lunch program every Wednesday or Friday 830 - 1130. Duties include peeling potatoes, setting tables, serving meals, deaning up tables and dishes.

Aqua& Volunteers: are needed to assist with Red Cross swimming classes. Volunteetsmusthavecomp&eted RLSSC8ronze Medallion and be at least 14 years of age.

Talk 640 Radio, Debbie Dixon, (416) 221-

ephone books will be delivered during late February and early March.

Homer Watson House & Gallery raffle!

“My Mother Bids Me Comb My Hair” pastel

by Diano Philpott. Draw on May 12. Call 748-4377 for more info.

Nominations are requested for the following seat on the University Senate, to be filled by by-election. At least five (5) nominators are required in each case. One (1) full-time Faculty of Engineering undergraduate student representative to Senate (term to April 30, 1997). Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, Secretariat, Needles Hall, room 3060, no later than 3 p.m.,Wednesday,March13,1996.Anelection will follow if necessary. Nomination forms are available from the Secretariat, ext. 6125.

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Volunteer Services is currently recruiting for the following volunteer positions:

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Bluevale Alumni! BCl’s 25th Reunion is May 3OJune I, 1997. If you are interested in attending, please contact the Reunion Hotline at 650-0569.

5 p.m.

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Outers Club meets every Monday except University holida s and Inter-term breaks. 7 p.m. in M 8 4040. Contact Fabrice Jaubert, ext.

4655 or fjaubert@cgI.uwaterloo.ca

Recycle your phone books.

Resume Critiquing: 7:oo. NH 1020.

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ROOF,anagencywotingwitl-~streetyo~& is looking for dependabIe, empthetic an:, open-minded volunteers ROOF provideF excellent learning opportunities in grout. work, outreach and crisis intervention. WF_ required both day and evening time and ask, foraorceaweek,eightmonthcommitbnen?. (flexible for students that leave during summer months) Please call Patti at 742-2788

Career Services is seeking volunteers to be trained as Student Career Advisors (SCA’s).SCA’sadvisetheirpeersoncareer planning/pb~t~niques.Twoto~ree hours/week time comment is requir& for 2 terms (not necezzui ly consecutive) plus outreach program and meeting time. Full

training is provided. SCA Supervisor is also needed, small honorarium provided. Applications in Career Resource Centre, NH 111 S...due March 15th, or r&ad complete details and print application from our web site at http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/ i n f o c e c s / C R C / Career-Resource-C-entre. html. i,~-~ +::.” __..$E;;.‘:: P;:,:{’ ; : :c

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Tandy 1000 SX computer,DMP 130A dot-matrix printer (no hard drive). Best offer. Call 888-6526 after 7:OO p.m. oak computer workstation.

Best offer. Call 888-6526 after 7100 p.m.

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Doreen 6risbin Award - available to third year Regularor3BCc+0pfemalestudentsinanHorr oursDroaraminwhichwcxnenarecurrenthrurcderrepresenrted.Deadline: Apn’l30,1996. ’ Douglas T. Wright Award - available to all who have participatedin an internationalwork phce mmt. Students to aDdl won return to full-time study al UW. Deadli&~Ocbber 15 each year.

Douglas T. Wright Exp&ence in Japan Award - available to all who have participated in a work placementin Japan. Studentsto apply uponreturn to hrll-time study at UW. Deadline: October 15 each year. r

FACULTY OF APPLIED HEXTH SCiENCE Michml Geilner Memorial Scholarship - available to all 3rd year Regular Health Studies and

Kincsichgy. Deadlne:March 29,1996.

Rotmt H3wwttl stzhobhip - comptetion of 3rd year in an honours prograin in resource managementreiakd to Park Planningand Management, Recreation, Natural H&a@ or Outdoor Recreation. Deadline:May 31,1996.

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Arbdemmconsuldng mp - availabIe to 36. Deadline:March 29,199ff~ Foundatbn Bursa~~vaibble all Chemical students.

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Canadian SC& for Civil E i~$~~~ng - availabie to allT ivil and Mfzan with an interest in BuildingScience Students to contact Dr. Eric Burnett.

KeithcatThbern&a I Award -av&ble to 3s 4th year Chemical. Deadhe: March 29,I 9%.

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‘Dowcanada Scihobhlp -avaAabkto3A Chemical.Deadline: March 29,1996.

‘S.C.Johnson & Son L&I. EnvironmentalScholarshi -availabIeto3rdyearChemical. Deadline: Ma $1 1996.

EGo&dnfm pmezd2 Mechanical. El&e candid& will be women. ab&ginal @at&) Canadii, perwns with di& abilities or visible minorities. Deadine: Juhr 31. krcel Pequegnat Schokshipavailabie to 3B Civil - Water Resoum Management students. Deadline:May 31,1996.

Alan W. Shattuck Memorial Bursary-available to 4th year Civil.

Succor Bumaries - availableta all Chemicalor MechanIcal.

FACULTY O[‘T&#ONMENTAL

Robftschdarship - completiorl of 3fdyearinanhonoursprograrninf-e+3urce management related to Park Planning and ManaoementRecFeation.l’&uralH&taaeorCIutdoor l%crea&. Dead&: May 31,19k.

-peq w Schohshtp - available to 3rd year =I nvironment & Resource Sudies,Pianning,WaterResourceManagement Deadline:May 31,1996.

FACULTY OF MATHEMATXS Ancbrsen Consuttin Scholarship - available to 38 Math. Dea8 tine: March 29,1996.

Electrohome 75th Annivemarv ScholarshiD -available to 36 Comwter Scierke. DeadI&: March 29,1996. ’ KC. Lee Computer Science Scholarshio available to 2nd year Regular Computer hience. Deadline: March 29,1996.

FACULTY OF SCIENCE Biell Foundation BumavaraDle to upper year Eartfi Sciences.

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