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IMPRINT The UW Student Newspaper Student Uf’e Centre, Room 1116 University of Waterlao Waterloo, Ontario N2L 361
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Friday September 13, 1996 Volume 19, Number 9
A voice for UVV
ISSN 0706-7380
by Stephania Bunka special to Imprint
I
n response to Waterloo’s exclusion as a site for a consultation hearing for the Ontario Government’s Advisory Panel on the Future Direction for Post-secoedary Education, the University of Waterloo’s student government, The Federation of Students, is hosting its own hearings.
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Reni Chan, Chris Edginton, Dave Fisher, Greg Krafchick, Chris Law, Pctcr Lenardon, Dave Lynch, Ashish Mishra, Kimberly Moser, Joe Palmer, Jeff Peters, Todd Pettigrcw, Greg Picken, Scott Preston, Julie Primeau, Ryan Pyette, Mark Rantin, James Russell, Klaus Steden, Patrick Wilkins, Caribbean Students Association, Chipper, The Parking Lot is Full, Warrior Soccer, Waterloo Concert Band, VVPIRG. Imprint is the official student newspaper of the University of Waterko. It is an editorially independent newspaper published by Imprint Publications, Waterloo, a corporation without share capital. Imprint is a member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association (OCNA). Imprint is published every Friday during fall and winter terms, and every second Friday during the spring term.lmprint reserves the right to screen, edit, and refuse advertising. Imprint ISSN 0706-7380. Mail should be addressed to Imprint, Student Life Centre, Room 1116, University of Waterloo, Ontario, NZL3Gl. Oure-mailaddress: editor@imprint.uwaterlooxa. Our fax number is 884-7800. An on-line version of Xmprint is available on the WWW at http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/
The Waterloo Education Consultation will be open to students, faculty, staff, O.A.C. students, their parents, alumni and members of business -&d industry, The consultation will take place September 20, 21, and 22, from 1O:OO a.m, to 500 p.m. each day, in the Multi-Purpose Room in the Student Life Centre. The forum is running for three days, and those who wish to participate should visit the Federation of Students of&e in the Student Life Centre. The Advisory Panel was set up in July bv the Minister of Education and Training,
John Snob&n, to obtain input from the public towards formulating a plan to restructure the post-secondary education system in this province. The Panel’s mandate is to recommend the best cost sharing structure, opportunities for co-operation among various institutions in the province, and a plan to deal with titure expected 1eveIsof demand for post-secondary education. As well as accepting written submissions from any concerned party, the panel will also be seeking input through a series of hearings with a
small number of college and university representatives, running from September 25 through to October 31 at schools in Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Ottawa, Hamiiton, Toronto, and London. The panel has asked the executive heads of the local colleges and universities to recommend the individuals who will attend the hearings. Discussions at the Waterloo Education Consultation will be centred around the issues of accessibility, accountability and the economic impact of universities. The Feds will consider the issues raised at the consultation in preparing their written submission to the Advisory Panel. Speakers at the forum will include representatives from the Council of Ontario Universities, the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, the Association of Universities and Colleges ofcanada, former Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Education and Training, Charles Pascal and MPP for Waterloo North, Elizabeth Witmer.
Bve bye, binaries by Greg Kraf’chick Imprint sti he University of Water100’s access to newsgroups providing software, pictures, sounds, and video will be eliminated by October 1, as recommended by a university working group. This recommendation was made by an ad-hoc working group of the University Cummittee on Information Systems and Technology (UCIST), chaired by Dr. Richard Wells of the kinesiology department. This report on “newsgroup management” was made available to the public last week and may be found on the web at www.dcs.uwaterloo.ca/directives. The change is mainly targeted at “alt. binaries” newsgroups, whose purpose is to download everything from music to porno g ra p h y with screens and screens of text code. These files constitute only two to three percent of the total number of newsgioups accessed by UW server users, but translate to a staggering 50 to 80 percent of the space in the newsgroups. Simple text-based groups, such as the myriad of alt.fan sites, are to remain unaffected. However, a brief check through Netscape news shows that such groups as alt.binar’ies.misc (148 entries), alt.binaries.mac.games (254 entries), and alt.binaries.games (an enormous 555 entries) are severely hindering the speed of such services as Telnet on campus. When traffic was at its most severe, a professor in the Computer Science faculty reported that urgent messages posted to classnewsgroups sometimes took two or even three days to appear. Exceptions will be made, however, for those sites deemed “essential for research, teaching, and administration or to enrich
the general intellectual l&e of the University.” To this end, a five-person committee will be struck from various segments of the University population, including the students, that wiil be in charge of deciding which sites to include. Those requesting the addition of newsgroups will be required to submit a short submission, in writing, as to why a particular site is necessary. According to Wells, the diction of news should be the exchange of information and ideas, and this is to be the priority given the current budgetary situation for Post-Secondary Education in Ontario. To quote the working group report “Selection is the process by which librarians deal with acquisition under the realitv of a finite budget. Selection is not ceniorship. The goal-of selection is to ensure that the intel-
lectual resources selected represent a wide variety of disciplines and points of view, and support the intellectual life of the University community.” Other options considered by the working group included updating the existing technology, removing entire hierarchies of newsgroups (such as a blanket ban on all alt. sites) and encouraging other means of accessing newsgroups based off-campus. For one reason or another (budgetary concerns, censorship concerns) these ideas were dropped in favour of the current amon Wells plans to have a meeting with all interested members of the University community later this month, to address any concerns about this action, or to get more information on receiving special permission to accessessential sites.
Downey on Subpanel by Peter Lenardon Imprint staff
U
niversity of Waterloo President, Dr. James Downey has been added to an education subpanel for the Ontario government’s “who does what” investigation of government services. Downey and four other members of the subpanel have three weeks come up with advice on restructuring elementary and secondary education in Ontario. Due to the time constraints, the subpanel will not be able to do a comprehensive study themselves. Instead, the five members will make recommendations based on previously conducted studies and
other material. Dr. Downey’s work will deal with the elementary and secondary school systems only, and will require about a day and one half of his time for the next three weeks. The work will cover tiding issues like taxation as well as school system govemante. Dr. Downey co-chaired a more comprehensive review of the New Brunswick school system in 1992 before taking over as the President of UW. The “who does what” review encompasses all government departments and services, including education. It’s objective is to decide which ievel of government should be responsible for which services, and where funding should come from.
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Drummond ran the draw between January 1 and April 30, with all students from UW and VVLU eligabk. In the end Jolcne Murphy, a first-time customer, came away with a new lid and a cold $1200 for tuition. Drummond says she is considering doing a similar draw again, ial their continuing efforts to support students on limited incomes. Shear Heaven is located at 354 King St. N. (at Columbia) in Waterloo, ph# 884-5 141 l
by James Russell Imprint staff rovincial Minster of Education John Snobelen visP ited campus last Wcdnesday evening. Speaking at a wine and cheese hosted by the Progressive Conservative Club, Snobelen spoke of the importance of looking to the fixure. More than an hour late, Snobelen appeared in the Student Life Centre multi-purpose room before a crowd of young Conseratives bolstered by students pulled from the enormous Bombshelter line-up. The line did iot go unnoticed by Snobelen, who praised it as a display of “school spirit” before admitting the problems in dealing with members of the public who are ‘&not so on-message as the folks in this room are.” Reiterating Premier Mike Harris’ stand on the importance of public input, Snobelen said “what is importantAs the possibility of people being able to act powerfully in their own lives.” “One of the questions.. .is can we change this big thing called
Josh Doig of the Waterloo PC Club, and John Snobelen, Minister of Education and Training photo by Pctur kn:udr~n s ” Snobelen told the audience, before insisting that his government was intent on dealing with “the debt, the economic problems,” and “some of the other deficits that have to do with things like the sGt.” He ahmitted that he was glad to get the portfolio as Mini&r of education as it is %n extremelv easy. job” because Ccthe change: we have to make are obvio&.” “Our school svstem has no sense of purpose, ” stated Snobelen. As far as his commitment to post-secondary education goes, Snobelen made a commitment to “create a funding system that funds government.,
students” and not simply governments or instihltions. Minister Snobclen also warned the crowd to expect some opposition. “there arc people in a $14 billion education system who are doing ok and will resist change.” But he committed the PC’s to decisive action, claiming that such resistance was “beside the point .” Ending his speech before spending some time chatting with members of the audience, Snobelen thanked the young PC’s for their support, saying “1 appreciate it.. .and 1 know the Premier appreciates it.”
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Newwebpageaidsplagiarism, claimprofessors by Sandy Ati Imprint stasl new web page that compiles hundreds of student ssays is designed only to A help students research their work says its creator, but some professors see his venture as nothing more than an aid to plagiarism. Ken Sahr, 25, is the mind behind School Sucks, a web page that assembles essays on topics from Oscar Wilde’s l%e Picmre of Dotian Gray to hypogravitational osteoporosis. Sahr insists that the page is strictly a resource where students can examine the works of other students. Sahr operates School Sucks out ufMiarni, where he works for Systems Integration Group, a small organization specializing in computer networks and creating web pages. Sahr had the idea for the page last November, but waited until June to catch students returning to school. So far the page has been extremely popular, rece,iving nearly 58,000 hits since it started. Sahr stated to Imprint that the majority of those hits have occurred in the last two weeks. Since then, School Sucks has received “anywhere from 50 to 300 essays a week,” stated Sahr. “My background is in journalism, and the way I look at this page is that it’s providing content. If you want to cheat, you’re not going to go to my site. All the professors know ahout my site,” stated Sahr, adding “Mediocrity in the academic world is nothing new. This is a way of keeping them on their toes.” Not everyone shares Sahr’s enthusiasm. Dr. Michelle Mood, Assistant Professor of Political. Science at Providence College in Rhode Island is just one professor who has written to Sahr, expressing serious concerns about his
page. Many other professors have written in, claiming his page is a threat to academic achievement. In a letter to Sahr posted on his page, Mood writes “Thank you so much for getting on the web. It
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www.schoolsucks. corn/ will be much easier to catch plagiarizers by using AltaVista than bv trying to look up student source; in the library. I hope your website gets millions of papers online. I look forward to failing and expelling students who use their time in school to, replicate research sources or actual papers found on the web.” However, Sahr insists that plagiarizers will not be aided by his web page. A disclaimer on his pages states that “School Sucks is NOT here for you to plagiarize, If you can not write a paper youshouldn’t be in school. Furthermore, almost every professor in the world now knows about School Sucks. Any student who turns in a paper from this site should be thrown out of school not only for plagiarism, but for sheer foolishness!” Besides issues of plagiarism, Sahr has already received criticism regarding the level of academic achievement evident in the essays.Sahr readily admits that he doesn’t rate the papers, and doesn’t see this as a criticism of his page. He claims that the essaysare simply a cross section of the various levels of scholastic accomplishment attained by students around the globe. He seesprofessors who complain about the essaysas simply “passing the buck.” Sa.hr sees School Sucks as a
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papers. This is a game of hideand-no-seek.“says Sahr. CLThestudents quietly order the papers and the academic world pretends that such organizations do not exist.” Organizations which write
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essaysfor money arc not uncommon. Magazines such as Rollins Stone and s,+ti contain classified ads featuring term paper assistante, offering “unique quality papers aswell asoriginal research.” In June of last year, Hr&uper’s magazine . I .featured an article by $!fZ)%E%FZY~AZ~sE~$i for money at a “large Canadian university” (assumed by some to be the University of Toronto.) Ironically, Sahr credits professors for tl& success of his web page. Sahr contacted various fraterities who in turn informed academic advisors and professors about the page. ‘7 want to thank the profcssors for the free publicity and
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spreading the word. I didn’t spreari Even if the professr:I; loathe the site, they still have XI check it every week. Every time they check the site, it’s another hit; which brings me closer to advertising.” Sahr, however doesn’t see School Suck5 to stay as a collection of essays.“My vision of this is that the essays will just be one aspect of the page, that eventually this will be the number one resource for university students ,” Already, the pige includes 3 classifieds section, personals, a calendar, exam questions, reac tions from professors and studerrrs and this week, School Sucks added a space for students to post their resumes for potential employers the word.
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This year, the Department of foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration are seeking individuals who are (Merested in long-term careers in Canada’s foreign service.
Cette annee, le ministere des Affaires 6trangBres et du Commerce international, de concert avec le ministkre de la Citoyennetb et de I’lmmigration, recherche des personnes int&esst$es a entreprendre une longue carribre au sein du Service extkrieur du Canada.
To apply, you must beaCanadian citizen and you must possess a post-graduate degree (Master’s or other graduate degree) in any field, or a Bachelor of Law degree (LLB, BDL i[b or LLL) from a recognized university by June 30, 1997. You may apply if you have a university degree in another discipline at the Bachelor’s level, but you must also have significant experience in international commerce or an acceptable level of language proficiency in either Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian or Korean. Knowledge of a third language, especially German or Spanish, is an important asset and is recognized in the selection process.
Pour postuler, vous devez &re citoyenne canadienne ou citoyen canadien et obtenir, d’ici le 30 juin 1997, un diplame de deuxi?!me cycle (maRrise ou autre) dans n’importe quelle discipline, ou un baccalaur6at en droit (LLB, BDC ou LLL) d’une universitb reconnue. Vous pouvez Bgalement postuler si vous possedez un baccalaureat dans une autre discipline, mais vous devez avoir une bonne experience du commerce international ou faire preuve d’un niveau de comp&ence jug4 acceptable en japonais, mandarin, arabe, russe ou coreen. La connaissance d’une troisii2me langue, particulikrement l’allemand ou I’espagnol, est un atout important et sera consid&ie aumoment de la sblection.
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Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements ou vous procurer un formulaire de demande d’emploi, veuillez vous rendrb au bureau d’emploi de votre campus ou ZI un bureau de la Commission de lafonction publique du Canada, ou encore & une mission dipiomatique du Canada ZI l’&ranger.
Completed applications must be submitted to the Public Service Commission of Canada or a Canadian diplomatic mission abroad by Friday, Otto ber 4, 1996.
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IMPRINT,
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Frosh week comes off with few serious hitches by Reni Chan and Joe Palmer Imprint staff rice again, thousands ofyoung, innocent, brighteyed first-year students migrated to Waterloo. For the first week, they participated in several fun, exciting and often embarrassing events. All those of legal drinking
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the law hcrc at Waterloo) cracked open their cases of frosty beverages, while those not yet able to join in the chugging contests watched in envy as they sipped their colas. Makeshift bedsheet signs along the 401 westbound were flapping in the wind with
slogans like “Fathers, thank-you for your virgins, ” and all the local Waterloo retailers had their signs changed to say things like “Fresh: parents’ money accepted here.” Hordes of people wandered around in the same t-shirts chanting things like “H20, LO2, Science rocks at Waterloo,” or “We are, we are, we are the engineers” at the top of their lungs. Yes, this can only mean it’s time for the inf;unous week known as Frosh Week. To those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a pretty intimidating sight. But those of us who have ever been involved know that all its participants are ton ecstatic to do anything but make fools of ourselves. Frosh Week got off to a great
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start on Monday. The on-campus residences were extra busy with all the eager students and their parents moving in and checking out what was to be their new home for the next eight months. The faculty frosh registration centres were equally busy. Many faculties distributed more frosh kits on the first day than they had expected. After picking up their orientation kits, frosh were led in various icebreaker activities to start the friend-making process. When the early registration was over for the day, groups headed to their first event of the week. Tuesday was also an exciting day as the frosh became better acquainted with each other and their leaders during the all-facultv pep rally and Dean’s address (‘i need a standing ovation!“). The Village residences had their Quad Hop Tuesday night, while Science took their frosh to a Blue JaysGame against the Kansas City Roy& at the Skydome, The Jays lost, but fresh had a great time cheering with, and sometimes against, a Queens frosh leader group across from them in the nosebleed section. Joe Carter even waved at them from the field. Wednesday was faculty day where all ne& students had a chance to attend sessions about the program of their choice, with emphasis on what is to be expetted from their experiences here
at UW. Most faculties scheduled big parties for the evening, including a Karaoke night for Renison, an “ELPE Recovery” party for ATts, and an “Elixir Analysis” party for Science. Most seemed to run smoothly, with very few incidences of underage or excessive drinking. The few problems experienced that evening were handled effectively by Orientation organizers. The infamous Scavenger Hunt took place Thursday, and what a day it was. This is the only time during the year that you can see a cow, two tractor trailers, a IX Car, and a boar on campus within the same evening, if at all. Spirit and unity were at an all time high as frosh scoured the city looking for the most unusual items they could find. Imagination and ingenuity were stretched as ecstatic students tried desperately to acquire Try that substitutes for impossible-to-find scavenger items. Valiant attempts were made to liberate the Math faculty of their giant pink tie. It’s dangerous to say how close they came. Science fresh were able to
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fmd a Citroen while the Engineers were busy dropping pudding on each others faces. Friday, several faculties showed up in force to compete in this year’s Frosh Olympics. Exhausted first year students combatted against one another in events such as dodgeball, tug-owar, and body soccer. Kudos to Village Two who put in a valiant effort in the iegendary Chariot Race but were tSetrayed by their equipment. The final race was cut short when the Engineering and Science chariots tried to occupy the same space at once. The result was a draw. When the day was done Science crawled from the mud, victorious for the fifth year running. On Saturday, tier attending a charity lunch for the Waterloo Regional Food Bank, those not catching upon much-needed rest headed over to Seagram Stadium. There, Waterloo crushed Windsor with a score of thirty-three to one. Enthusiasts cheered wildl} even though the rain had drenched them from head to toe. That evening, hundreds of fresh and leaders lined up in front of East Campus Hall in bedsheets and other similar garments to be shuttled over to Bingeman’s for the week’s final celebration Toga at the Yoga. Fresh week may be over now, and some may have to attend carlymorning
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but the fLn never stops. Welcome to the University of Waterloo.
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Environmental centre canned The planned Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering” won’t be going up any time soon, UW offkials have confirmed afkr months of rumours that the Ontario government is pulling the plug on funding for. A release being issued today by the UW news bureau reads, “The University of Waterloo has been informed by the Ontario Ministry of Educakon and Training that previously promised funding for its proposed Centre for Environmental Science andhgineering
cannot
be accommodated
within the ministv’s severely reduced capital budget and has been put o tsFfor possi blc cons idcra tion in 1999-2000. The $25.2 miliion in government funds intended fbr research in fields such as water and supply was originally promised as part of a jobs Ontario program by then Premier Bob Rae in 1994. “As you are aware, the government has made addressing the province’s financial situation a high priority. As such, the ministry has been reviewing all postsecondary capital commitments in order to meet the new tlscal framework,” said David Trick, assistant deputy minister, Postsecondary Education Division, in a letter to UW president James Downey. “Future funding will depend on the continued need for the project, other postsecondary needs, and the availability of funds,” Trick said. Downey added that the university, region and province clearly need a facility of this nature to boost environmental research, and
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foster local economic growth. “Naturallywe’re disappointed . . *but we remainoptimistic, however, that as the government’s financial picture improves we will be able to proceed.” YVaterloo’s expertise in environmentai science and engineering is recognized across the country and around the world, and we intend to maintain our position.. . when a new facility actually comes on stream,” Downey added. Downey said a group of UW oficials, including David Burns, dean of engineering, John Thompson, dean of science and Jim Kalbfleisch, vice-president academic and provost, will undertake an immediate review of the available options. He stressed new hndraising conditions and targets for the CESE will be communicated to all current and potential donors. ccOur need for such a facility... is still very clearlv with us, and we will work with our partners - alumni, industry, government and private donors - to realize our goal ofcreating a worldclass environmental science and engineering centre here,“Downey
by Mark Rankin special to Imprint
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UW’s first-vear enrolment target for this Sepiember, approximateiy 3,750 new students, has been met or exceeded in some programs. Demand for environmental science and engineering programs remains strong, with more applicants for environmental engineering (co-op civil and co-op chemical) and both co-op and non-co-op environmental science programs thanUVV has room for. UW’s undergraduate enrolment is about 15,500 students and total enrolment is about
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On September 5 there was an attempted theft of the much-coveted Math tie on MC. The attempt was totally discouraged, with one person caught and two others getting away. The situation was handled &rough the faculty. Also on September 5 the sign from the Right Angle Cafe in MC was stolen by students from another faculty. No one has been caught, and the sign has yet to reappear. One person was interviewed in connection with the incident, and two faculties are involved in an attempt to sort the situation out successMy. On September 6 drywall knives and trowels were stolen from a construction area in the General Services complex. On August 30 some tools and equipment were stolen from a locked tool box near El 1532. Crimes of Opportunity A car was broken into and rollerblades stolen from inside at Parking Lot C. UW Police would like to remind people that valuables left visible inside of cars are targets for break-ins. The best lines of defence, other than taking them with you, would include putting valuables in the trunk or putting them out of view in the CX.
A Sony Discman was stolen at St. Paul% College. Some personal photography equipment was stolen near ES2 Rm.
272.
A 21 speed men’s Tequesta bike, blue-yellow in coiour with a lock and headlight, was taken from tht: Bl and 2 entrances facing Needles Hall. A Canadian passport was lost near the MSA, owned by Sriharan Thambirajah.
Mischief to ~~P-tY On August 24 a concrete biock was thrown through the second floor stairwell window in Conrad Grebel On September 4 at 1:30 a.m. some signs were taken off their mountings north of the Cul de Sac at V2. Qn September 3 at 11:45 p.m. one student and two unidentified individuals damaged a picnic table outside of SLC. The student was identified but re&ed responsibility in the incident. Nevertheless they have been banned from the SLC, the Bomber, and Fed Hall. The incident was apparently alcohol-related. Over five hundred dollars of damage was caused by a driver that backed into another car in the ECH gravel lot. There were no injuries. On March 3,1996 two in&viduals, one a student and both under the influence of alcohol, caused some damage at Renison college. Both pled guilty to mischief charges on July 25. Paul Geoffrey Boreham was sentenced to twelve months probation with a conditional disiharge guaranteeing his good behavior. He has also been banned from UW propcrty,andfined$1018.74,thecost to repair the damages to Conrad Grebel. The co-accused was also assaulted by Boreham, who was convicted of this crime as well. Harrassment A female student in Vl reported receiving annoying phone calls. A male individual phoned her and the woman mistook him for a friend of hers. The unknown man duly played along, and they agreed to meet off-campus. When her friend did not show she began to become suspicious, and when the unidentified man phoned her again she became apprehensive and phoned the Uvv Police, The UW Police advise people
in this situation to take certain measures to stop situations such as these. Call display can be a usew tool to screen out undesirable conversations, and anyone who is annoying should simply be hung up on. If the problem persists it’s a good idea to first find out who is phoning you. Mer that keep a pad and pen by the phone and record carefUlly the dates and times of calls you receive, and report this information to UVV Police. Simple documentation is very usell towards proving harrassment.
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Caribbean Club is multicultural persons of similar
descent. Canaof Caribbean descent mav find a place where they can finb out more about their ancestors, their hom&nds and their cul-
Caribbean Students Association
&ns
multicuituralism,
vet man\ Canadians are still startfed tJ) the exam-
ple of niulticultura1is grcatcst amdgama tion of peep le ofditierent cultures in the world, people co-
that industrialized society simply will not allow. Whtzre else but in the <1aribbcan can vou find a man of Chinese descent named Johnson, a woman of Indian descent named Lee, a Caucasian named Tulu, man of f&can heritage
Mohabir . Within this cosspectrum of persons, personalitics, and lifesrylcs that lie between. Here pu will find people &%fi-ican, Arawak, Carib, Chinese,
111that exists
tures. Canadians mav find that they can finally come to understand this diver& group of people who are now a part of their clwn
In the coming C.S.A. will be seeking
terms, the to renovate
its somewhat antiquated image. Once considered to be a club only for those students of Caribbean
descent, the club now seeks to widen the range of its membcrship, and to aid the task ofhelping students within the University communitv to understand each other.
For many Canadians, the Caribbean may mean many differing, contradicting things. the Caribbean. Those Canadians who are of Caribbean descent may be even further confused by these images, and be unable to detcrminc which is the actuality and which is the productofcultu ral distance. How in
and will be Pleased to view the growing multi&lturalism of a group found on their own campus. -hd all may find the activities ofthe C. S.A..an enriching and entertain& exDerience.
culture
For the fall and winter terms, the Club is planning a number of activities including dances Fetes in the Caribbean),
(caIied
forums on Caribbean leaders in the Canadian academic, cultural and economic communities, cultural shows, cookups and myriad other informal social gatherings. The C.S.A. will be sponsoring soccer and basketball teams in the fall, and perhaps a volleyball team. There will also be the return ofthe much touted Dominoes Tourna-
ment, which will be held in the Student Life Centrc at any venue with a flat and sturdy table. The prize f<x winning this tournament has not yet been formally decided, but it will probably be a case of
imported beer. There has also been talk of having an All-Fours Tournament as well, though that is still in the planning stages. Does this all sound like gibberish to you? Have no fear! The C.S.A. will be holding tutorial sessions for these and other Caribbean games during the first few weeks of each term. So, come and join the C.S.A. and experience the Caribbean in Canada! The first general meeting will be held at 6: 30 pm September 19 in the MultiPurpose Koom of the Student Life Centre. Look For the posters!
English, French, Indian, Mayan, Pot-tuguesc and Spanish descent, and the cultures. languages and dialects of the entire region are impacted on by some, ifnot all of thcsc socictics.
When Caribbean
students
first arrive in Canada they are often i mmcdiately surprised at the that Canadians have about their homelands. Thcv are often at odds to put together the pieces of d confusing puzzle.
that has been dedicated to the answering of these questions, and
The Return of Fran Flanders
the promotion of Cultural Unihr within the Universin cornmu&. Within the association, Caribbean students may find a small piece of home, and a place to relax among
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Julie Primeau VP
Federation Dear
anymore. In fact some people even
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So there’s the paradox. Everyone thinks that co-op is a good thing, RUT lots of people also
about Waterloo is and you’ll get a couple ofdifferent answers. Some will say it’s the facilities, some will
think that the co-op system isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The reality of the situation is that many
say that it’s the faculty, but the majorin; will say that it’s the coop program. I mean, that’s our claim to fame isn’t it? Everyone in
students grudgingly put up with the svstem we have now and simply accept it. I’ve talked to count-
industry
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less students who say, “Yeah sure the co-op system suck5 but T can’t do anything about it.” That’s just not true. You can do something
op is terrific and other schools are now rushing to catch up with us. Co-op must be a good thing. Right? This is the yoint at which it
about it, if only you’ll take the
starts now
co-op provides the best possible
to get a lirtk strange. See, go back and ask students
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Flanders,
I don’t know where to begin. I just began school here and I didn’t get into residence with my friends. Now I feel left out, because they are doing all of these cool things with their Dons and floor mates while I sit at home twiddling my thumbs. I also just went to my first day of classesand am feelini overwhelmed. I have to write a paper about Women’s Issues but have never been in the library (it is awfully big andscary.) Can you give me some advice... Feeling
Lost
well Lost, you have come to the right place! I happen to know of a great place called the FED Office that can put you back on the road to being “found.” First off the FEDS provide many services for students who are feeling a little left “out of the loop” and just need someone to talk to. You could call the PALS Phoneline and speak to a peer anonymously about how you’re feeling. The Phoneline operates every night and its number is 8884866. The FEDS also have a Service called PODS which stands for PALS Off-Campus Dons. This service pairs you up with an upper
year
student, so you can start doing the same types of activities that your on-campus friends are doing, and also meet a bunch of people just like yourself. it souids like your professor has you doing some heavyduty topics for a first assignment, but fear not because the FEDS now have a Student Issues Resource Centre. The Coordinator is very cool and can get you information on most non-academic, non-administrative issues. Also, since your topic deals with Wom-
is perfectly all right to want to socialize with your friends and meet new people, butgettingcompletely bombed every night is a bit extreme to say the least. There are plenty_ of _things _. to _do _on this campus that don’t involve being a plaster-head. I think that you should check out RACCHUS (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students). This is a service provided through the FEDS that is intended to provide students with alternative to drinking, especially when they drink as-heavily as you are planning to. You also may want to give the PALS Phoneline a call, just in casesomething else is bothering you and
Sincerely, Fran
you
Dear Fran Flanders, Hi, ah...X’m new here and Ijust really want to party it up and get completely bombed every night. Are there any places on campus where I can kick it until all hours ofthe morning. Also, is it ok if I bring beer to class as long as it isn’t in a glass container? Party
On,
Plastered Hello Plastered, Sounds to me like you have a problem, and it isn’t whether or not you can drink during class. It
need to talk to someone.
Finally the FEDS provide two fantastic on campus bars for the students (The Bomber and Fed Hall). We want to see the students kick back and have a good time while they are here at UW, but the key is bala.nce...nobody wants to see you taking a permanent vacation beginning at Christmas . Take Care, Fran Fran is a figment of the VP Internal’s imagination. The FEDS however are very real, and are located in the Student Life Centrc. If you would like more infor mation on the many serviceswhich the FEDS provide, contact us at 888-4042.
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Where’s Gonzo when you need it? t’s a torture I put myselfthrough nearly everyday, but for some reason I can’t shake this habit. I watch the news, II watch CNN, Headline News and CBC Newsworld, but all I think of when I’m watching it is “why is this so goddamn shitty?” If I see Larry King suck up to one more degenerate politician/actor/O. J. Simpson laywer again, I’m going to have to hunt him down and punch him until he forgets how to kiss ass. You too Barbara Walters. Last year, King had a congenial interview with Mike Tyson for christsake! The rapist who’s changed because he found Allah. Yeah, whatever. But it’s certainly not Edir to pick on King alone. He is simply the most shameless of the many talking heads paid to look good and read information they probably don’t understand. Any headline I see today simply smacks of regurgitated birdcage liner. A setback to peace in the Middle East? Canadian unity crisis? US. troubles with Islamic tindamentalists? CBC cutbacks? Rising tuition? The rise ofa right-wing faction in France? Say it isn’t so. . . again. These are dire times, dire times indeed. These are the times when we need Hunter Stockton Thompson. I’m a rclarivelp new Thompson acolyte and fully prepared to admit that nothing in his work or his biographies suggest he was a likeable man, but he created a fierql, roaring body of work that not only didn’t pull any punches, but threw them like a drunken biker. 1 Thompson essentially founded what is known as c‘gonzoy’ journtism - an attempt to get at the heart of a story by eschewing any notions of objectivity and throwing himself directly into close contact with whatever he was writing about, In doing so, HST managed to write more accurately and more informatively about subjects that the rest of the media could onlv discuss from afar. ’ He could be irresponsible to the point of incompetency. He ftiled to cover events because he was drunk or on drugs and his later writings lack the prowess of his earlier work, but it WASthe drugs and alcohol which, paradoxically, gave Hunter the edge over other reporters. While other news media treated the Hell’s Angles as true devilspawn, feeding themselves hearsay and rumour, Hunter all but joined them for a year and provided an insiders perspective on a realm where all others t&red to tread. At the s;lme time, he covered events such as the 1972 Presidential Campaign with a ciari ty unequalled irl the journalistic world. He considered Richard Nir;on a brain damaged degenerate and had no reservatiorls about saying as much. What makes Thompson so appealing is the sim/ plicitvw of his writing. 1-G wrote in the first person and while cmbeIlishmcnts were common, here was writing by someorx you could beLieve because he clearly had nothing to lose and nothing to gain. There was no need to second guess who “owned” Hunter S. Thompson ;u1c1what strings were being pulled by which n~cdia magnate for which political end. Sadly, this no-bullshit attitude is nowhere to be found - even in the fringe media. The various kicks in the teeth which need to be delivered are watered down for Emily consumption nearly everywhere. I?,J. O’Rourke is good, but he’s no Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter is still alive, living near Aspen Colorado with a distended liver and probably brain damage from his lifes&e of excess,but in his time, Thompson managed to Lund a school of writing that could be depended upon to deliver the goods straight up (and sometimes on the rocks) for a public who wanted to know what the hell was realiy going on. How sad that so few have followed his Iead.
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udging from the attitudes ofmost crops with irrigated fields. This over a people, we like to think of our period of 300 years, of course. To us it selves asvev important, if not the happened overnight. roud rulers of our planet. To future peoplekind, what we Agreed, in the last century or so, have done in the past 100 years will we can claim many successes, and also have appeared to have happened even perhaps claim a milestone has occurred in our civitization. This is, of course, based almost completely on what we believe important. “easy life. ” It /means thinking 1 J * Consider, howwq ever, if you were to think of this past cenhxy - the time frame in comparison to the existence of the planet: four cI& to six hillion years or so, and the one billion years it has been populated by human beings, is not even a “drop in overnight. Knowledge, its collection the pond” so to speak. and cultivation date back 5000 years, The Industrial Revolution at the and that’s what we know of experiturn of the century, can be argued not ences worth recording. So what is the accomplishment to have been of any real consequence, but rather an awareness. History has that is supposed to change history shown that we wili continue to dis- forever? The single thing that will mark this century whether it deserves cover and find new methods of being lazier. Agriculture was revolutionized it or not, is the Information Revoluin the early 1500s. It literally went tion. Conveniently, it is very close to from collecting berries, to planned the turn of the millennium.
Okay, you say, I’ve heard so much hype about this Ynformation Revolution” stuff. Whatever you want to call it, we are in the middle of it, and it moves ahead at a phenomenal rate everyday. Never mind nirvana, how special is it? Here’s mv areument. There real& isn’; an “Information Revolution.”
To exercise true freedom
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about what you really want, ignoring societal pressures telling you what you want, and what tG do.
bated that we’re still in the Industrial Revolution. Revolutions don’t
change in human thought and activity. Something that lasts more than a few human generations. The similarities between the indust&l and the information revolution suggest that the latter really is just an extension of the former. So what is going on? We’re still in the middle of the Industrial Revolution - in which we are still learning to exploit our physical resources, and turn them intoproducts which make our lives betterThere is no denying that this is probably the l
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by
Pete
Nesbitt
and
Pat
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Professor Jamieson’s cry for help goes unnoticed due to student inattention.
I don’t watch
want to you die
To th Ed&w, Ler me start by acknowledging that Hendrik van der Breggen is partly correct. The life expectancy of gay men (on average) is lower than the life expectancy of other Canadians, primarily due to a higher rate of HIV infection. This fact is so ohvious that even Mr. van dcr Breggen, who seems to get all his information about gay health issues by reading anti-gay diatribes, was unable to miss it. Like me, Mr. van der Breggen is unhappy about this situation, Or maybe he’s just unhappy that we die in a wav that costs him money. (He’s definitely unhippy about something!) What should gay men do about our reduced life expectancy? We could ail become ex-gays (and then, given the notoriously high relapse rate, become ex-ex-gays) . Or we could learn how to be both gay and healthy. Contrary to what Mr. van der Breggen seems to tlkk, gay sexuality does not consist soicly of sticking things up your bum. Men can give each other sexual pleasure in many ways, limited only by the laws
of physics and human imagination. These range from completely safe (telephone sex) to very dangerous (anal intercourse without a condom). Because ofeducation efforts within the gay community (often opposed by the likes of Mr. van der Breggen on “moral” grounds), unsafe sex has become much less common. Unfortunately, young men who sometimes have sex with other men (whether or not they think of themselves as gay) continue to have unsafe sex and get infected at an appalling rate. Men the same age as the average Imprint reader, It’s really to these men that this letter is addressed. You don’t want to die, I don’t want to watch you die, and Mr. van der Breggen doesn’t want to pay for it. Da us all a favour and learn how to protect yourself. If you want anonymous information or just someone to talk to, call one of the phone lines. Or come out to the next Gay and Lesbian Liberation of Waterloo meeting. There you’ll find a diverse group of people (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual) who are going through a loe of the same things you are. You might even get a date. It’s been known to happen.
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first time in history that we have been so empowered. We have personal and physical freedom, both through technologies such as the Internet, and the automobile. Or so we think. The truth is that ago& portion of our planet still exists in an age where our form of futuristic “utopia” will not likely appear for centuries yet. Never mind that, let’s just deal with our own western civilization f&t. Let’s consider ourselves (briefly). We don’t have the knowledge to understand nor appreciate the technology and personal freedom that we possess. Moreover, we invent and create solutions and products that can still not be used to their fLll potential. Perhaps the problem lies in deciding if we would rather move in fast forward, than take the time to do a good job of finishing what we have already started, never mind considering the consequences. Okay, tangent time: examine humanity as a whole. There are approximately five billion people on this planet. Do you really have an understanding of that number? Five billion. Most of us can’t visualize more than five to seven people at a time, Anyway, try to visualize these five billion individuals, with their own desires and emotions. Their minds are all active. The amount of work they do cumulatively is absolutely phenomenal-off the scale.But that’s part of the problem. These five billion people (4/5 which are in poverty) are
all actively pursuing pretty much the same thing. Survival, freedom, wealth, power, and a beautifL1 red sports car (usually in that order). These things are human needs and desires. Examine two single individuals. VVhat makes one person different from the next? You might compare his education, wealth, status, power, luxuries, and other material things (okay, and maybe sex). But maybe a comparison is a bad idea. Someone may be better OK (more likely worse ofi] than yourself. But are you really different? Mentally, the difference between yourself and someone else is very minute (physically there is almost none). It has been said that environment dictates to a great extent the personality of a person. Agreed - long term exposure to the same environment will create very different types of people, but they all have the basic human architecture. Place two completely different people? (with the power of reproduction) on an island, and they’ll start producing people much more alike. So what would happen if we exchanged you with someone at birth? Not much. You could claim that each person is an individual and that they would never think alike. It probably is more likely that it’s a matter of environment. Take into account that there are only a few environments in which humans live. For example, the “western world, the old world, and the third world.” (Okay, let’s get out of this territory now.) What is it these people lack? Here’s that word we all get defensive and touchy around: individuality. Now humanity has always been a communal sort of animal.
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Recently, an animal rights group became inf&iated when it was not allowed to present its message (delivered by a guy in a seven foot tall carrot suit) to children in an elementary school in Calgary. The message? That feeding children meat is a form of child abuse and that meat is nutritiondly unhealthy. This raises a few questions. Should our schools be the site of politically charged messages?Who decides whether or not a message is appropriate, or for that matter, even factually correct? Obviously, there are benefits to be had by children and society by influencing a kid’s behaviour at a young age. You want to get them to resolve their di.&rences through communication, not violence, you want them to brush their teeth, etc., etc. But attempting to make them vegetarians? Would it be appropriate to have a representative from a political party talk to chikken? Or a religious representative, telling children that Catholicism or Islam (to pick two of my favourites) is the only way to heaven? Or how about the N.R.A. or the KKK? Is there any difference between these
groups’ agendas and the animal rights group in question, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ? I don’t think there is, and I don’t think that political (or religious, if you want to separate the two) agendas have any place in primary schools, where the children lack the information and the ability to view such biased presentations with critical eyes. One potentially redeeming factor ofsuch a presentation would be possible health or social benefits. For this reason, presentations that advocate things like hygiene or not littering would be ok. However, I dispute PETA’s claims that giving children meat is abusive and unhealthy. If giving a child meat is not harming the child, I don’t seehow it can be considered abusive. And whether meat is harmful can be answered quite simply. It isn’t. Of course anything in excess or to the exclusion of all else is unhealthy, including carrots or any other vegetable, but meat, in itsell; is not unhealthy. Humans are designed to eat meat+ well its vegetables. We are omnivores, and have the teeth to
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proire it. But who decides whether children should be subjected to these things? Unfortunately, it is the decision of the Calgary public school board. Why do I say unfortunatelv Because I think that there is’ a problem when one committee or Chairperson can make decisions regarding the education of thousands of children. Each school should be allowed to decide whether or not it wants its students to be subjected to such messages, and parents can take such decisions into account when deciding where to send their children. The alternative is having one board-wide standard, giving parents absolutely no choice whatsoever. If they don’t like the education their children are receiving, they have to move to another city, a worse option than just moving their child. The decision as to whether something is factually correct would be made the same way, though in this caseI believe PETA is attempting to deliberately rnislead people with its sensationalist and incorrect claims.
What’s happening at WPIRG? Temagami update Earthroots, a Toronto-based environmental organization, has established a Forest Defence Camp (FIX) in the Owain Lake area of Temagami to prevent logging in the area. Owain Lake is the first oldgrowth stand to be opened for logging under the new Ministry of Natural Resources guidelines for Temagami. The Ontario MNR has opened seventy-three per cent of the Temagami region to logging, mining and gravel extraction. Last Wednesday, September 5, the OPP took an unusual step by arresting Earthroots FIX Coordinator Lea Ann Mallet right in the base camp. The next day at the actual blockade, twenty-one people were arrested, including support people who were not actually blockading. The Owain Lake area has been described by forest scientist Dr. Peter Quinby as the third largest sire of remaining old growth red and white pine in the world, Aaron Muirhead, who was arrested on the blockade, will be visiting UW to talk about the Earthroots campaign on Tuesday, September 17th, at 12 Noon, in the Student Life Centre multipurpose room.
About WPIRG Little Known Fact #482: The 1996 Paralympic Games were held in Atlanta from August 15 to August 25. Don’t worry, I didn’t know about it either until the CBC announced their coverage to be shown this Saturday, three weeks after the event itself. The event has received negligible media coverage. I could go on about the injustice of it all and how the Paralympians work just as hard as the other Olympians, but that wouldn’t be terribly interesting, and the link between media coverage and justice is tenuous at best-.The real question is, where was the spomorship money for the media coverage? The Paralympics saw 3,200 disabled athletes from 120 countries appear in 19 sports. Just like the Olympics, athletes complained about the transportation facilities during the Paralympics, but for different reasons. There was also plenty of controversy: Some wheelchair athletes put nails in their chairs to increase performance. Apparently, the body responds to the stimulus of the nail, while the athlete does not actually feel it. This stimulus can increase
pertbrmance by up to 15%. Memwhile, there were drugs, but some were allowed in certain circumstances, a rule which was abused surprisingly little. Where’s Ni@tline when you need it? On the positive side, Tony Volpentest, a double arm and double leg amputee ran the 100 metres in 11.36 seconds this year, a mere second and a half slower than Donovan Bailey’s record. Volpentest used prosthetic limbs made of carbon fibre, the same stuff used in Formula One cars. The Paralympics have gone high tech, and with excellent results. One would expect that with all the sporting and human interest elements, sponsors and networks would be clamouring to get their names involved in television coverage. Companies like 3M should be all over this event. For that matter, McDonald’s and other corporations could have run their standard inspirational ads. The reality is much different from the expectation. Few such ads were run with Paralympians in them. You might say that few Paralympians are known to the public, but corporations can eas-
ily, to pur it crudely, manufacture celebrities. Did anyone know who Joanne Malar was before the Olympics? No, but people knew her name tier those shampoo ads. A bigger barrier to media attention is that many Fople are still uncomfortable with disabled role models, and wherever there is ambivalence, corporations are rarely found. Even in Canada, a society far more accommodating to the disabled than, for instance, most European countries, we have had only a sporadic history of disabled heroes. Terry Fox led the way for Steve Fonyo and Rick Hansen, but the disabled hardly register in the national consciousness the rest of the time. It is unfortunate that the Paralympics did not get more attention. Media coverage could have helped to elevate awareness of challenges posed to and overcome by the disabled. A show of their abilities could only help; they are probably more easily accommodated than many think. A little more courage on the part of the population, corporations and the media could have done this with little trouble.
Twenty-two years ago, students organized the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) to provide them with a vehicle to inform, challenge, and take action on issues adversely affecting people and the environment. Today, students and community members are still drawn together through WPIRG in the belief that, together, we need to continue to work towards a just, ecologically-sustainable, and democratic society. Lack of previous organizational experience is no barrier. Through WPIRG, you can share ideas with others, develop important and useful skills, and gain the practical experience you need to be effective in working in the interest of your community. Attend our WPIRG Volunteer Meeting, Tuesday, September 17th, at 12 noon, in the SLC mu&purpose room.
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John Todd builds LivingMachines. As the name suggests, Living Machines are structures comprised largely of living organisms brought together to perform a particular type of work. They are engineered with the same design principals that nature uses to build and regulate its great ecologies in forests, lakes, prairies and estuaries. Living Machines can be used to produce food and fuels, treat wastes, purifSI air, and regulate climates within buildings. Cuntinentul Cmference ma Sod Ecology, September 20, 21, & 22, G-uelpb.
Social ecology integrates the study of human and natural ecosystems through understanding the inter-relationships of culture and nature. It advances a critical, holistic world view that creative human enterprise can construct an alternative future, rcharmonizing people’s relationships to the natural world by reharmonizing their relationship to each other. This year’s theme is Backyard Revolutions: Communities Combating Globalization. Agenda registration, and agenda details available at WPIRG. Xlliwtmtive *mittin with Chaia Heller, Mmmhy September 23, 12 Noon, SLC mdti-puu;posc room.
What is revolutionary about fighting incinerators, toxic waste dumps, or deforestation? Within each particular ecological injustice lies the seed for revolutionary vision and action. In this presentation, Chaia Heller explores how protesting particular ecological injustices can provide a forum to educate ourselves and each other about the need for wider social and political change. Heller’s presentation promises to provide much inspiration and use&l information about how we can effectively move from a current situation of political pow erlessnessto a movement in which we become politically empowered to create social as well as ecological justice. Chaia Heller is a writer and educator who has been active in ecological and feminist movements for over fllfteen years. She has been a core member of the faculty at: the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainsfield, Vermont since 1985.
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hat is needed is a fbndamental technological revolution that will integrate advanced societies with the natural world to the mutual benefit qf both. Pollution, atmospheric alteration, and the loss of soils and biotic diversity are artifacts of technological cultures estranged from the great natural systems of the planet. Modern cultures exploit the natural world and in so doing threaten their own long-term viability. It is essential that we create a truly symbiotic relationship with nature. This relationship will be predicated on new, highly evolved technologies I call LivingMachines.” - John Todd: Ecological Engineering Bokskogen, Sweden 1991
In 1481, John Todd and Nancy Jack Todd founded Ocean Arks International @AI), a non-profit global center for water awareness and action. OAT’s work revolves around the use of ecological knowledge to solve water pollution problems. TheTodds believe that&&e emerging field of ecological engineering will become the predominant technological design approach that will give society the necessaw sustainabilitv to meet its neids in the coming century,‘and that non-polluting, innovative Living Machine technologies are the sustainable alternative to conventional technologies. John Todd will be visiting the University of Waterloo on Thursday, September 19,7: 30 pm, Davis Centre room 135 1, to talk about this technological revolution. For more information and directions, call WPIRG at 888-4882, Living
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Over the pastseven years the work of OAT has focused on develbping,researching and using Living Machines. As their name suggests,LivingMachines are structures comprised largely of living organisms brought together to perform a particular type of work. They are cngineered with the same design principles that nature uses to build and regulate its great ecologies iti forests, lakes, prairies and estuaries 0 Living Machines can take manv forms dependinion their function and l&ation, but they are always comprised of aquatic and/ or terrestrial ecosystems in variously coniimred. engineered envirom:nts. khev a& aowe& Prima& bv sunlight and achieve it-~atmen;through rhi combined action of living food chains, many of which are microscopic. As concepmalized bv OAI President, Dr, John Todd, Living ‘Machines can be used to produce food and fUels,treat wastes, purify air and regulate climates within buildhp.
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Along with these working demonstrations, research continues with new experiments, applications, and designs. Judging from the results of two 90-day bench tests OAI conducted last year, it appears that Living Machines can degrade even such highly toxic compounds as poly aromatic hydrocarbons, Among several other designs slated for implementation, OAI has developed a fowcost, material-light, portable waste purification Living Machine for use in developing countries. There are also plans to build a prototype system for the degradation ofsuperfund site wastes, and to run a Living Machine project to document the system’s ability to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons. OAI has developed a proposal to build a large Living Maehine for urban food production in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is hoped that this urban farm, designed to cover an entire city block (5.5 acres), will have a revitalizing effect on the inner city. Floating
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John Todd has received the US. EPA Chico Mendes Environmental 1Clem’tAward, The Teddy Rummelt Consmation Award presented by President Bush, the Discmm Award for Technological Innovation, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Desip.
flows. The structure is in the lobbv of the school, and the students have a&s to the clean water at the end of the process. OAI has also launched i new Classroom Living Machines Project with tk installation of five in-class systems in Chattanooga, Tennessee schools. Students learn by w&king with a living ecosystem that mirrors the complex interrelationships in the larger, global ecosystem of the world outside. Students are responsible for estabiishing and maintaining the system. They grow fish, animals, and plants, while exploring their feeding and breeding. Through experimentati&, they are ible to see the effects ofvarious pollutants and additions to the system. In the elementary grades, a lesson may involve taking simple measurements of the system, including water volumes, fish weights and populations. Senior level studies are much more complex, involving water chemistry, plant and animal tissue analysis, soil biology, and species identification.
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A long-term goal of ON’s has been to establish a national Centre for the ecological design arts to train individuals to heal damaged eco-systems; rebuild local ecologies; find ways to reduce the human “footprint on the Planet”: and weave ecological intelligence into educational programs at all levels. After over eighteen years of preparation, experimentation, and planning, the centre will actually take the form of a new class of ship (as in boat). This first vessel will be used to support environmenta! restoration and economic development projects around the world. On board will be a highly evolved tool box holding technical resoura for the invention, design, fabrication and repair of technologies- adapted to placespecific solutions. The vessel will carry an international faculty of world-class teachers who will work directly with students and professionals. Ecological design and engineering experk will be applied to problems of food culture, energy generation, waste treatment, agro-forestry, fiber production, aquaculture, ocean farming, transportation, shelter, and whole-svstems integration. OATI boasts that it will be the most ecologically sound ship of our times - a working symbol for an age of Earth and ocean stewardship. L
Adaptability Massachusetts, treats waste from boat holding tanks. In Indiana, a Living Machine treats the waste of the small industrial park, PAWS, where Jim Davis, the creator of the comic strip Garfield and his associates, work. In Waterbury, Vermont, Ben and Jerry%, in a joint venture with two environmental companies, is testing a LivingMachine for the treatment of waste from its ice cream factory. For this work, OAT has received the U.S. EPA Chico Mendes Fnvironmental Merit Award, The Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Award presented by President Bush, the 1991 Discover Award for Tcchnolo&&novation, a.ndtheChryslerAward for Innovation in Design.
in the town of Harwich, Massachusetts, Restorer l’s electricity-generating wind mill up wells nutrient-rich water and sediments from the pond bottom at rates of up to 100,000 gallons per day. Restorer 1 digested 20,000 cubic yards of sediments and increased biodiversity threefold. Chssroom
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With their modular design and aesthetic qualities, Living Machines can both fit into the existing infrastructure and replace it. At this stage of its implemented developmenr, the technology uses basically amount ofspace asconventional wastewater treatment and construction costs are less. The second generation Living Machine being built in Maryland will reduce both size requiremcnw; and costs. Living Machine facilities can also produce cconomitally-valuable by-products, including plants, trees, soil amendments and bait fish, creating possible hture sources of revenue to help off-set the costs of wastewater treatment.
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e stood up tall, he won them all, and he did it his way. Warrior football head coach Dave “TufYQ” Knight rewrote the CLAU record book on Saturday, winning his 138th career gaxne to become the all time winningest football coach in CIAU history. The record was previously held by Bruce Coulter, who coached at Bishop’s and McGill. On a rainy, windy day that was perfect for Tuf$ Knight’s ground-attack football, the Warriors destroyed the Windsor Lanc. ers 33 - 1 in front of a few hundred soggy, but hardcore, football fans. Waterloo dominated from beginning to end, amassing 422 total yards on the day, 350 of which came on the ground. Quarterback Ryan Wilkinson led the attack completing 3 of 8 passes for 36 yards while running for 111 yards on 12 carries. Running back Jarrett Smith ran roughshod over Windsor for 180 vards on 24 carries with two touchdowns. Kicker Arek Bigos kicked three field goals and one rouge. While Waterloo’s offence was basically running at will, the defence was an impenetrable wall of black and gold steel. The Warrior defence held the Lancers to a paltry 104 total yards. Windsor’s only point came on a missed field goal for a rouge and only with the help of two silly Warrior penalties on a Lancer punt that extended the drive. The Lancers were held to eight first downs for the day, three of which came on penalties, compared to Waterloo’s 23. With the score 4- I for Waterloo on a Bigos field goal and traded rouges afier one quarter, Wilkinson hit Rick Shea with a 36yard strike at 3:48 of the second quarter. That set up a Smith three-yard touchdown run to put Waterloo up 1 l- 1. Later, with 2:35 to go in the
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first half, Wilkinson delivered a 3O-yard pass to Adrian Thorne which set up another Bigos field goal to put Waterloo up 14-l at the half. mer a Windsor safety that gave Waterloo a 16-1 advantage, Wilkinson broke open for a 29yard run to the Windsor 13 at 8:52 ofthe third. Eventually Smith plunged into the end zone for the second of his two TDs for a 23-1 lead. With I:34 Iefi to go in the third, Smith found a hole and turned on the jets for a 50-yard run to Windsor’s two yardpline. On the next play, Jason Van Gee1 ran in for Waterloo’s final touchdown to put the Warriors ahead 30-l at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Egos
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kicked his third field goal of the to round out the scoring. At a post-game press conference, Knight was presented with a ptaque honouring his historic achievement. Past players and assistants were on hand to congratulate him along with UW Director of Athletics Judy McCrae and WLU Director of Athletics Rich Ncwbrough, who represented the two schools with which Knight won his 138 games. Waterloo (1-O) will be looking to carry their momentum forday
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istoxy was made once again this week at Wa terloo when the Wat@rloo Warriors Baseball Club took to the field to play the first ever baseball game in the school’s history. Last Tuesday, the Warriors held their home opener with a doubleheader against the Guclph GlTrphons at Bechtcl Park. Althdugh they started well in both games, the Warriors wcrc swept 7-4 and 17-13. Waterloo is one of two expansion teams in the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association (CIBA) along with the Wilfrid I,auricr Golden Hawks. The league consists of 20 teams, 10 in Ontario, and 10 in Quebec and the Maritimes. The teams arc a mix ofuniversities and collcgcs. Waterloo resides in the Ontario West Division with Brock, Guelph, Laurier and McMaster. ‘fhc team will play a I6 game schcdulc. Currently, the team is not
officially classified as varsity and thus are providing their own tiding to operate this season. There is optimism that if the team can prove itself viable, they could receive varsity status within a few years. In the first game on Tuesday, pitcher Mat-t Lindsay was dominating Guelph until he was hit by a pitch and eventually had to come out of the game afier three innings with a 3-O lead. In that time he allowed no runs on two hits with six strikeouts. Waterloo and Guelph traded runs in the fourth to make it 4-1 Warriors. Waterloo shortstop DanMurraycrushed a home run down the right field line for Waterloo’s fourth run. Warrior football punter Matt Armstrong took over the pitching duties and was solid until experiencing control problems, aliowing f&e walks,-in the sixth when&elph tied things up at 44. Armstrong allowed only three earned runs on four hits with four strikeouts in two and two thirds innings of work. The Warrior bats that were out in full force early couldn’t
muster up any more runs as Guelph scored three runs in the top of the seventh off of losing pitcher Dan Hope to complete the scoring. Hope went one inning, allowing three runs on three hits with one strikeout. Matt Picoli was the winning pitcher for Guelph, working two innings while allowing no runs on one hit. Matt Vrooman pitched a l-2-3 seventh for the save. Warrior coach J.l? Soucie was looking for the team to learn a lot from the first game and apply it in the nightcap. The game siarted out well, but turned ugly Iate. Steve Penner started on the hill for the Warriors and pitched effectively for five innings. Howcvcr, errors didn’t help his cause as he .allowed four runs, none of them earned, on three hits with four strikeouts. The Warrior bats, however, were back and Penner left the game with an 8-4 lead after five, thanks to a wild starting Guelph pitcher and a four-run fifih inning sparked by back-toback triples from JeE Sommer and Armstrong. Things started to unravel in
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the sixth. Guelph scored three runs in the top of the inning off of reliever Troy Brady to close the gap to 8-7, Brady pitched twothirds of an inning, allowing three runs, two of which were earned, ofioftwo hits with two strikeouts. With the score 8-7 Waterloo, the Warriors needed only to shut down Guelph in the top of the seventh to secure their first cvcr victorv. tinfortunately, everything
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by Kimberly Moser Imprint staff 11Saturday, Warrior f’ootball head coach Dave “Tufv’ Knight set a new standard for coaches as he collected his 138th career victory, becoming the All-Time winningest coach in CIAU histoy.I And, on a day in which he could have basked in his own glory, Knight chose instead to talk about the Warriors’ first victory. Saturday’s 33-1 romp over the Windsor Lancers was the first Opening day win for Waterloo in almost a de&de. “For the first game of the season,” said Knight, “that’s probably the best game we’ve pla!xzd since I’ve been here at Waterloo. I was reall\r proud and pleased at how \ve p&ed .” As f-or tl& record, Knight prcf&s to leave it to the history books. “One hundred-thirtv eight, it’s a nice thing, but I ne&r reall)
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gave it a whole lot of thought. I think it’s something you lcwk back on once you’re out of the business and out ofcoaching, but it’s a goal you’re glad you accomplished.” With his 138th victory under his belt, Knight is already working hard to secure his 134th. “I always want more,” said Knight as his team prepared for its match-up in Guelph tomorrow. “If you say, well, you won 138 games, what else can you reach, I’ll say let’s reach 148, let’s win the national championship and the Yates Cup. And if you say you won the national championship, I’ll say, let’s win it twice, I’m never satisfied. I want to keep working and developing new kids. As soon as \rou become satisfied, you becorn; complacent and there is no f& then. “I’m the type of person who thi&s rhat the football program is important and I want to do the job vev professionally. I want to do it right. My belief is that if you’re not going to do something
right, then you shouldn’t do it at all. I think there are times where people do things hap-hazardly and thatrs not the way I operate. That’s not the way I run a program. You do it first-class and treat your kids fairly and with respect and try to give them the very best that you can possibly give them. I want the kids to think they have not been cheated and they have been given the bcst we can possibly give them. If they’re getting the best, then they give you their best and that’s how you have a succcss~ program .” Knight should know. Before joining Waterloo, he helped bring Laurier’s football progr,am from the depths of despair to the Yates Cup championship. Prior to his work in Canada, the native West Virginian won two high schoc>l championships and was named Coach of the Year. Aside from holding the CIAU’s All-Time Career wins record, Knight is the onl\l three-time winner of the CIAU’s Coach ofthe Year ,ward.
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on three hits and six walks over one-third of an inning. Leading hitters for the Warriors in the doubleheader were : Murray with a home run, a sin- gle, and three stolen bases; Sommer with a triple and a single; Vinh Lam with two singles and two stolen bases; Mike Lane with two singles; Armstrong with
a triple; Hope with a double; and Chris “Gibby” Gibbons, Aaron Chu, Fred Hazelton, Kaidanek, and Eddie Langevin with a single each. While the final results were disappointing, Waterloo showed true grit in their comeback effort in game n;yo. The Warriors have some solid pitching and good hitting and have a lot of potential to be a serious contender. This is
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playing well with the slipperyconditionS, but Mac attacked first and the score was 1-O. However, the Warriors kept their composure and within five minutes the rookie connection of Dave Nutt and Phil Bosco saw Bosco tie the game at one. At the end of45 minutes, the Warriors were in great shape with a l-l tie. In the second half the armour of the Warriors started to crumble. fier missing many great scoring chances and with the presence of a hometown referee, the Warriors received two red cards (as opposed to Mac’s zero), a player in the hospital and a disappointing 4-l loss. The
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ometimes, when I hear a rcaliy good song, I start nod ding my head, like I’m saying “Yes, yes, this rocks!” And sometimes I shake it up, like I’m saying “No, no, don’t stop a’rockin!” On September 1, I had a very sore neck. This was a concert I was both looking forward to and dreading. Looking forward because it was my opportunity to see Oasis live with more than thirty thousand other fans, dreading because it marked the end of summer. This show marked the end of a record season for festival-type shows with Lollapalooza, EDENfest, Edgefest, Alanis and Oasis/Neil Young all making their best grab for my money. Though I didn’t pay for this show, I’d have to say I got somebody’s money’s worth, though there was certainly room for improvement. Screaming Trees were not at all interesting. They have a big song on The Edge, they were on Lollapalooza, but after seeing them live, I can’t figure out why. They’re just another cookie-cuttt’r post-grunge alternative
riff n’pose waste of time. And nothing more. Af& that, things got a whole lot better. The next two acts to take the stage were Spiritualized and Jewel. I knew very little about either going into this show, but was pleasantly surprised by both. Spiritualized seemed very out of place on the huge stage. My first instinct, almost right after their first chords, were that they shouldn? have been up there, This is no comment on their music, which was beautifUy hypnotic, but they seemed a better fit for a much smaller venue such as Lee’s Palace or the Opera House. Hell, the Bombshelter would have been a better venue. Adding to that, their sound lulled the crowd into something of a trance, a let-down considering Screaming Trees at least got people up on their feet and moving, and they made no attempt to communicate with the audience. Then again, in Spiritualized’s favour, you can’t make too much of an argument for passing up a performance before a crowd of thirty thousand people. As I mentioned, I knew very little about Jewel before this show, but I was impressed with her the most out of all the acts. She was absolutely dwarfed by the huge Molson Park stage and as could be expected, showed more than a touch of nervousness. As her set wore on, she became more at ease, working with the crowd and really finding her niche. Above all, she took the
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time to talk between every song, a trait that was lacking in the preceding bands. So between her banter and songs like “Race Car Driver” and ‘Who Will Save Your Soul?” it was hard not to fall in love with the ladv from Alaska. Next up, thi Gin Blossoms+ If you like the Gin Blossoms, then I would assume they were fairly good. If you don’t like the Gii Blossoms, you probably wouldn’t really have liked their live act. Most of the audience seemed to like them, because the gravel really started flying in the pit. They played their hit song, you know, the one they seem to repackage every few months as a new song? Reminds me ofAerosmith’s Alicia Silverstone phase, Anyway, I’m not a big Gin Blossoms fan (though I must admit, their songs are fa too catchy), but if you were a fan, it sounds as though you would have enjoyed yourself. Next on the bill was the band that I think almost everyone was there to see, the cheeky lads from Manchester, Oasis. Walking out on stage to deafening applause, Noel’s first words to the adoring crowd were “Show some appreciation for the best fUckin9: band in the world.” That pret&much says it ali right there. Leading into the weekend show, no one was sure if Liarn wouldactually be joiningthe band, as he had not boarded the band’s flight earlier in the week, claiming to have to house hunt. However, he missed only one show, and was every bit the Liarn we expected. He swaggered around the stage, he encouraged the audience to pelt him with plastic bottles, he mumbled incoherently quite ofien, stared at a bra someone in the audience threw at him and even sang a song or two. Nothing out of the ordinary. Their set was fairly standard, starting off with a selection of hits covering both Def?nitely Maybe and (IV&at3 the Stay) Morning Glmy, including “Cigarettes and Alcohol,” ” What’s the Story Morning Glory” and 2upersonic.”
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solo on ‘Whatever,” “Octopus’ Garden” (A Beatles’ cover? Imagine that!) and “Wonderwall.” The other four band members reappeared for an encore of sorts, and they closed out the show with “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and the traditional closing song “1 am The Walrus.” As soon asOasis left the stage andthe lights came backup, many
didn’t disappoint. Although, there is one small complaint I would register. Neil and the Crazy Horse boys managed to incorporate at least ten minutes worth of solos (rising up into fifteen minutes or more it seemed at some points) into every song, such that by the time three songs elapsed and the photographers pit emptied, more than 45 minutes had elapsed! 45
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about chanting in groups and pairing up for later. Treated properly, it’s the cathartic experience of the week, and, while the neophyte concert goers will dance to just about anything, bands like Spirit of the West have their September schedules booked solid year after year. They’re Canadian, but everyone’s heard of them. They have the approval of everyone from the frats to the celts. You can dance to them, and more importantly, you can drink to them. The Hell Billies open. HaKway through, I overhear someone ask, ‘Didn’t they play this song already?“Thus far, I’ve been lucky enough to have only seen the Hell Billies twice. The next time I see them, I’m going to get onstage and beat the lead singer over the head with his accordion. Too much accordion is a bad thing. A really bad thing. A really, really, bad thing. MercifUy, Spirit of the West came on quickly and played for over an hour. And, as always, they put on a show worthy of their
Spirit of the West w/ Hell Billies Fdwattin Hall Tuesday September 3 by Patrick Imprint
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he first week of September, Spirit of the West played Federation Hall to a near-capaciry crowd of mainly first-year students. I was up front. I was frosh. That was 1995. Last week, they did it again. I’m second year. I have nearly eighty concerts under my byline, and I’m slightly deaf in the right ear (don’t forget the earplugs, kids - soundguys insist on believing that louder is better). I stood in the back, watching the fresh froth. As it was for me twelve months ago, so will it be for many of those that night: their first bar show. For many it will be their last; the fresh week concert isn’t about music appreciation - it’s about being pumped up on testosterone and substances more ethylated,
reputation, flailing and highstepping and headbanging on stage and genuinely manin8 it, not just plugging into the rock star schtick. Lead singer John Mann sips red wine, holding the stem iike he’s entertaining the Queen and not a group of drunken young adults trying to tear the clothes off anybody too close to the front of the stage. Drummer Vince, on the other hand, provides the grand finale ofchugging a brew in under six seconds. “‘This is a song about drinking!” Mann shouts, and everyone leaps up and down in place (Spirit of the West, in a brilliant move that other bands would be well advised to follow, have banned moshing). “This is a song about euthanasia !” Mann shouts, and everyone leaps up and down. Maybe later they’ll buy the album and read the lyrics, but for now drums, guitar, and flute are all they can absorb. The set list is remarkably like last year’s, with nothing from their latest Open Heati Symphony release; Fed Hall may claim to be the biggest student bar in the universe, but it still can’t accomodate a symphoq orchestra. Yave this House” and “Home for a Rest” come as a double shot right at the end, and even the less energetic fringes of the crowd (indeed, even the more concert-weary Imprint reviewer hacks) leave their seats and leap up and down for a final salute to the evening. Two slower numbers for an encore, and sweatsoaked students stagger in line to pick up their Watcards. It’s only fair to warn them that things will never again be quite as good. But sometimes, you can go back.
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n town for a sold out show at my new personal favourite concert venue, the Concert Hall, Beck rapped, rocked and danced through a solid hour and a half set. Opening the night were the New York city’duo Cibo Matto. They had a really big name in Sean Lennon on bass,yet nobody seemed to notice. He really didn’t contribute that much, since all of
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most had become bored, and were more htercsted in blowing smoke rings than in the band. I really wish I had learned how to smoke in high school. From the opening number, “Devil’s Haircut,” Beck grabbed the audience’s attention and never let go. Sampling heavily from his latest release, O&&y, Beck included two distinct parts to his show, a solo acoustic and harmonica part, and backed by a four piece band consisting of a guitarist, bassist, drummer, and ke yboardist . I’ve got one word to describe Beck’s instrumental offerings: percussion. I saw at least 10 different percussion instruments, accompanied by sampled snippets as well. This allowed him to recreate his distinct sowIds perfectly, without having to relyr heavily on sampling. Beck’s hold over the crowd was most apparent during his
acoustic set when he took out his harmonica and belted out the title track from his previous album, Onefoot in the G&UK Not one pair of hands in the crowd were still as they clapped along, providing a .steady backbeat . . to the sear;lg harmomca sounds. A big surprise came after the fourth song, as the familiar slide guitar intro to his smash-hit “Loser” was heard, and the crowd
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alk about change! Think about it - 0nIy five or so years ago Kelley Deal was a computer programmer in Dayton, Ohio, whiIe taking lots of drugs in her spare time. Through ‘93 and ’94she became a rock star in a hot band (the Breeders) toured with Lollapalooza.. .and of course took e\len more drugs in her spare time, culminating in her 1995 arrest for heroin possession and the subsequent intervention of her family to get her into rehab. The S”ti interview with her twin Kim said it all: “Kelley doesn’t have a life anymore. She has heroin .” But look at her now! Her eyes were bright, she was jovial, joking with the medium-sized crowd. More importantly though, the music was the biggest revelation of the night. The perenial criticism of Kelley’s work in the Breeders was her lack of playing ability, primarily her lack of guitar playing experience (less than two years, I believe, when the group did Lolla). Somewhere in the interim, however, not only has Kelley learned to play, but
she’s also turned into quite an impressive songwriter in her own right. She has a new album out on her own label Nice Records, called Gu tu the Sqpw Ahar, and one assumes that most of the material at the show was from this release - all of it was new to this reviewer. It retrospect I wish I had bought the album at the show. Completeiy unexpectecily, she has taken the already wide range of tempos m Lmt Sprash and made them even more diverse and interesting. Various songs included- trumpet blasts, some smooth 70% organ with warm brimming vocals to match, and even a kid’s xylophone on a song apparently called “I Want to Be a Stripper” (though Kelley pointedly [. said she was kidding afterward) s There was even a dark, brooding blues song that would be comfortabie on the TN& P&Y soundtrack. To be sure, there were large chunks of guitar rock, but even these were varied in style and approach, 1 from the sm&th and ho&-laden (one recalling Last Splash’s “Hag”) to the powerful and unsettling, paticularly one
track that featured chaotic drumming and primal screams from Kelley. That’s a pretty dizzying array of music, and admittedly Kelley and her band are not masters at any, of the stvles ,
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they tried (chords went astray at more than one point). But it’s the sense of adventure and simple ioie &
tiwe that made this performance a purely entertaining one from start to finish. With their final song, a fun and spontaneous version of Abba’s bcSOS” pefiormed with the Local Rabbits. KeUev Deal lefi no doubt that she has deft&stepped out of her sister’s shadow,’ kd established herselfas a musician to be respected, if not admired. And you can’t help but be happy for her. Look out for more Nice Records releases (like the Frogs new album, delayid until FebGary while their keyboardist finishes off the Smashing Pumpkins tour).
Montreal’s Local Rabbits opened, and though the teenage throng for the band were more than enthusiastic for this murderecords act, this reviewer fdund them occasionally passable but mostly cringe-inducing. That rock star posing! The crappy rifEs! The lame betweensong banter! The worst white boy version ever of ‘&Hey Bo Diddlev”. The band act&v took it&G+! And ofcours; that rhythm guitarist’s FUCm-G ANN6YING f% setto!! ! Someone should form a band called the Local Beagles and hunt those bovs down.
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irst things first, Truinsputtin. is a marvellous movie, but it’s doubti it will hcip to boost the Scottish tourism industry. Then again that’s okay, for the Scats aren’t worth seeing according to the movie’s anti-hero, Mark Renton, played by Ewan McGregor who mid-movie passionately proclaims that to be Scottish is to be “the lowest of the low.. . fit only to be colonized by English wankcrs.” Based on the bestselling underground novel of the same name by author Irvine Welsh, this tone of defeat and anger revealed in Renton’s speech runs through the mderbclly of 73-&m-potting, fuelling the actions of the movies main characters, four of whom lose themselves in the putridly stagnant world of the Edinburgh heroin scene. Many critics have condemned the movie for glamorizing the USCof the drug yet nothing could be further from the truth. Though heroin remains the main pastime of the four Scottish friends, its prime tiction is to lead us through both the movie’s funniest and most horrific scenes, two elements that are in abundance in Tfzimpo
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Diati~s, Tminsphyis not a pseudo-documentary consumed with detailing the downward spiral of drug abuse; instead, it concentrates on the adventures and interactions between six very different characters. Though almost all the character’s actions and reactions revolve around the drug, it is the comedic and dramatic moments which eclipse the heroin theme, leaving us remembering the movie not for its social commentary but instead for its rendering of the characters. In the movie’s darkest moments when drug related casualties begin to rise, the scenesavoid melodrama and social messages choosing instead to view the carnage through the calloused and remorseless eyes of the characters. Heroin abuse itself is dealt with maturely as all facets of the addiction are shown. From the super high one receives (According to Renton, its better than any orgasm times a thousand, and then you’re still nowhere near it) to the emotional and physical repercussions of abuse which is portaryed with chilling realism. Still, what remains a poweti drawing card for this movie are the superbly acted interactions between Trhzsph@.c band of thick accented misfits. The majority of the movie is narrated by Mark Renton, who was last seen in Shallow Crave, which was both produced and written for the screen by the same film makers. Renton is the smartest of the six friends and the one who you know is either destined for more or will go the extra len@ to tick over his
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T.S. Eliot would be proud impossibly easy. The lighting. What appeared to merely be a large junkyard mned into a visually stunning display of lighting as the show began. With multi-coloured lights and several strobes in the junkyard set mixed with lights in the curtain backdrop, a truly impressive scene was created. Add in the house lights and the enormous strings of Christmas lights strung up the sides of the theatrc and you’ve got a memorable spcctaclc. Dazzling is the only appropriate word. The singing. Great. These people are truly talented. I mean, I heard no mistakes, and these people don’t get to do another take if they screw it up. Doug Eskew was great as Old Deuteronomy, but the singing star ofthe show was, as is to lx expected, Grizabeila. Played by Jcri Sager, Grizabclla has the privilege ofsinging Memory, the big hit, the one evcrpnc knows (whcthor they know it or not), the one cvcryonc ieaves humming. And she does a hell of a job. Parts ofMemorv arc act-uallv sung a few times tht&ughout thk show (with diKcrent lyrics), and not always by Grizabclla. But the time that you will not forget is the final one, “big Memory” as Sager called it in an interview with Imprint recently (seeImprint, Aug. 30, 1996). Sung quietly previouslv in the show, Sager rocks the aidience back the last time she sings it. It
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rankly, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I’d never seen a musical, and I regarded them assome sort ofhigher culture that working class slobs like mvsclfaren’t really cut out to appre&tc. Sort of lik; opera. Howcvcr, I was wrong. Eithcr I’m really an upper-class hvit in disguise, or Cats is readily accessible to just about anyone. 1 liked it. Ihscd on “Old Possum’s Hook of PracticaI Cats,” written 1~ T.S. Eliot in 1939, Cats is cl truly impressive display of dancing, lighting and singing. The dancing. Not knowing a lot about balkx or g!?mnastics, 1 ~1 terrninolo~~~. But I c;\n say that what I SW WAS impressive. The Cats leapt and ddnccd across the stage and climbed on the set: a junkyard cnlargcd to make the Cats appear appropriately sized. Undoubtedly the most impressivc dancer was Kaldy Andre Davis in the role of Mr. Mistoffelees. Spinning around a dozen times & so on one leg before wowwing tlx crowd by repeatedly touching his toes as he did the splits in mid-air, Davis made the almost-impossible look
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does her a disservice to s3y she “belts it out,” (as it was described to me by another audience member) but that’s exactly what it is,
except it sounds fantastic. Truly powehl. I still can’t get the damn tune out of my head. I can’t begin to imagine the years of training that must have gone into producing such a voice. Of course, you can’t properly review a music without mentioning the music, so I will. Andrew Lloyd Webber is, quite frankly, overrated. The music was, for the most part, ok at best. “Memory” is a great song, there is no question of that, but most other songs
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were simplistic and forgettable. Knowing a little about song writing, Webber used standard chord progressions and just threw in Eliot’s words as lyrics. The strength of the show lay in the other elements, not the music. Anyway, ail in all, I really enjoyed the show. It was my first musical and I sincerely hope it is not my last. Incredible performances mixed with a great set and dazzling lighting, I was truly impressed.
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f you play a wind, brass or percussion instrument, we’d like to tell you where to go (especially if you’re our roommate. Okay. Only kidding!). Seriously, even though we no long have the UW band, there is a local, community band that is looking for more players, particularly if you play a wind instrument. It is Waterloo Concert Band and, according to the band’s director, Cameron McBain, this band offers a great place to play for university students and adults of all ages and all ability levels (beyond beginner, of course). “Waterloo Concert Band has a long, proud history that goes back over 100 years,” McBain says. “We are now looking forward to the next millennium with energy and musical vitality that reflects our commitment to provide quality music for the community. Students at UW are invited to btz a part of it !” Made up of 40 volunteer musicians on brass, percussion and woodwinds (sorry, no bagpipes), the Waterloo concert Band pcrforms an average of 20 concerts each year. This includes casual Music in the Park concerts in the summer and a winter four-con-
cert series. (Check out future issues of Imprint for news of upcoming concerts). “We have a wonderfully varied repertoire,” Cam McBain says, “including everything from the soundtrack music from&w WI&T to that PeeWee Herman special, Teguila and from light classical and swing to some real interest-
There is free parking. Or take the number 7 bus directly from campus down King Street. There is no band membership fee, and some loaner instrumerits are available. “What makes our band really unique is our musical flexibility,” says Cam McBain. “Some groups specialize in j a.22or classical or ‘art music,’ but Waterloo Concert band is a place where performers get &play all types of mugigs, but there 1smore focus on the staged concerts. Some of
your own horn ing modern pieces. We try to please a varied crowd and pick pieces that are fun and challenging for band tnembers to do!” Waterloo Concert Band rehearses Monday nights from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m* at the Adult Recreation Centre on King Street, which is next to Brick Brewery.
grasp on the first readthrough. The result is a varietv that suits the broad tastes of members -and audiences ! ” Director Cameron McI3ain is in his first full year at the podiurn (his predecessor was John Tickner, who plaved with Kitchener-WaterLo Symphony and now teaches out west). “We realize that musicians who are also students have co-op and exam schedules, but this isn’t a problem. We can be pretty flexible.” He says if vou want a pIace to play in a friendly, relaxed setting, call the Waterloo Concert Band info line at 740-6054, ext. 4or call Cam McBain at 725-7729.
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to tell if the crowd was in attendance because of the bands, or because it happened to be an event that was occurred during Frosh Week. Take, for cxample, the large mass of people who stormed the dance floor when the “Macarena” came on. Enough said. In any case,The Philosopher Kings didn’t disappoint. Mostly playing music from their selftitled debut album, they managed to put on an engaging performance. If you’re uCharms, I’m sure? familiar with their photo by Gihn Ihwnes music, you should check them out live, since performing is, unarguably, Shortly thereafter, there was a noone of their strengths. ticeablc decline in attendance. The crowd recognized most All in all, it was a good show, enjoyed by most, if not all. The of the songs, then hrrllivay through only disappointment was the brief the show they plaved their “money - and the en&-c-they only came back for song, w ccChar&’ crowd, not surprisingly, loved it. on2 song.
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gouged out) who discovers that the crow - surprise, surprise - is the key to the avenger’s power. I guess they didn’t want to be accused of straying from the original too much.
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And as the film progresses, the cinematographv goes from mediocre to intriguing as yellows blend with black and oranke. The Crow insignias are pretty cool too. The viUains, meanwhile, are hit and miss. lggy Pop is menacing, but only because he’s Igg\l Pop, so he’s pretty scary to begin with. The leader, on the other hand, is a lesson in what not to do when casting a movie. He cannot act, period. The rest are pretty good, but there are no equals to, for inst;lIlCe,T-Bird from the first movie. Similariy, the way the villains die sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. After all, if they didn’t die in really cool ways, why would we go see the movie? And some do. I won’t spoil it for you, since these parts of the movie are generally more important than the plot. The end is pretty hokey, mainly because the effects budget should have been higher, but it is rescued by the cinematography once agam. All in ali, City ofAq-p& is about as good as the first black, it’s back and it’s just the same one, which is to say, pretty good, but not incredible. But do see it on the big screen, work. To their credit, they kept the post-apocalyptic
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We’ve been touring for about years, right now. We left Canada about six months ago. I think our last Canadian to&was - shit, I’m the worst for show dates - probably, like, eight months ago. And then we’ve been touring the States extensively up until now. That could’ve kept going, but we’re sort of in a strange predicament - our aibum came out in Canada two years ago, when we wrote it, and it came out in the States about six months ago. So we went down there to support the album and the reception was really good. At some point we have to stop and say we have to record, because that one is about two years old. hv0
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comfortable writing on the road, yet. We’ve written a few songs that way, but we sort of need to get off the r-ad, and &en get focused and then start it. I mean, what happens is when we’re on the road everyone gets ideas and stufF like that, you know. You have a whole bunch of ideas and concepts and things, but it’s only when you get off the road. That’s kinda why we needed that period to just stop. It seemed like it was never-ending. So it3 another
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Yeah, what we’re imagining, I mean, this is really, really preliminary, like, we’re just at the very beginning, but I think we’ll probably have a record out by Spring, or, like April. It’s possible. My guess is that we actually work pretty quickly. The recording process doesn’t take us very long. YmfltiyspN on apreg intense sbuw. Dues the venue have much to du with yourpe$iimunce?
Yeah, the venue has a lot to do with it. And the crowd... But, our live show has always been our biggest strength, been sort of our focus. And that’s what we try to capture on our album, you know? I mean, that was our first try with this firrst album. And we’re sort of anxious to try it again. I mean, we’ve been together for three years, now, so we feel like we have a hand on it. We cbecked out your Web PaBe, and there was a qzutt? that desctibed The Pbilasopher IGn~s a.rTbe saund Seal and Shp(y Red, blending into The Brand Nav Heavies’.
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I’m just at my wits end with all that shit. I’ve heard everything. VVhen you hear so much, it becomes nothing at all. So, I’ve given up. I remember at the beginning we were thinking one day someone’s just gonna coin a phrase and we’ll go: Yes, that’s it ! It’s never come, you know what I mean? What I’ve always aspired to are artists like U2, or artists like Madonna or Seal. You can say (their sound is) contemporary, and it’s
popular music. But you have no idea what that is. If you’re gonna be a fm of our band, you have to be a fan of us, not the genre. But 1 sympam with these guys, because it takes me twenty minutes to explain what the hell I’m talking about, and you gotta put it in one line, right? And again, it’s the most-asked question when you introduce a band. But it’s so& of our cross we have to bear. l
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* Just in caseyou don’t know, King St. runs north-south and east-west. It also crosses Weber St. at least 3 times. Getting around in K-W takes practice and some luck, so get yourself a map and some good directions before setting to find everything in town. Fortunately, most good stuflfis on King St. or University Ave. Good luck, atld enjoy the town.
Clubs & Bars The Bombshelter Student L3e Centre The campus pub and so much more. A cooi place to grab lunch, sit around with a coffee and chat, or, lest we forget, drink. They’ve almost always got some sort of deal an, and Wednesday “Rock ‘n’ Roll” nights are always packed (though infamous for the length of the line-up).
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Fed Hall Main campus Fed Hall has been through a couple of rough years, but things are looking up. Coming under new management about a year ago, the Fed St&have been hard at work changing the image of Fed from an 80’s dance bar to a place that everyone can enjoy. With corn@ chairs, a big dance floor, good music and a great staff, Fed is looking good for 96-97.
Burgers right next door for a snack tierwards. 80’s nights Sundays. Always a good
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people or dance music, then don’t go thereOtherwise, it’s okay, just your average, though smallish, dance club.
Cfub Abstract 667 King St West, Kitchener
Revolution 341 Marsland Drive
Another alternative bar, but more alternative than Phil’s, Oriented much more towards the industrial md Goth scene in KW. But do not be frightened, everyone’s welcome. Excellent decor, pool, and a giant video screen over the dance floor. 80’s nights Friday’s: Deftitely cool.
One of the many recent additions to the local dance scene, Revolution is new, big, and closer to campus than all of the others (which are in a small area of downtown Kitchener), If you like dance bars, check it QUL The
Loose Change Lmie’s University plaza Wear your blue jeans, and cowboy boots if you got ‘em. A popular rock ‘n’ roll bar, Loose Change is a pretty happening place. And if you’re looking for Ms. or Mr. Right (or Right Now) this is the place to go. Phil’s Grandson’s Place. 226 King St. North. If you like dark basements with really loud alternative music, go to Phil’s. There’s a cover (after 9 or 10 depending on the night of the week), but the drink prices more than make up for it. They’vealsogot pool every night, and Mega Pizza and Stanley’s
The Volcano 276 King St West, Kitchener
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One of the few clubs in town featuring live music almost every night, the Volcano is largely responsible for the significant (by some accounts) live music scene in K-W, A little gloomy, the Volcano is good to sit and chat (ifyou can get one of the few seats) or dance all night long to the rock stars of tomorrow.
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The Flying Dog is the other half of the building that used to house tie Twist. Catering to an older crowd, the Flying Dog is well-suited to really well dressed people. Expect to see golf shirts, if you know what I mean, There’s no dress code, but you’ll feel out of place in ripped jeans. On the plus side, the DJ is a wild man. Olde English Parlour 77 King St. North
Renaissance 24A Charles St West K-Ws only gay bar right now. Cover is a buck. Cute go-go dancers (male and female). If you have a problem with gay
A nice restaurant, and not too shabby if you just want to drop in for a drink. The food can be a little pricey for university students, but a couple ofnights a week there are good
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serve milk, but they have a very nice coffee machine and fUdge and cookies daily.
The Duke of Wellington 33 Erb St, West A bloody great pub. Real authentic like. A fabulous (dare I say best in Waterloo??) selection of brews from around the UK, and good food too. Drop in for a quick bite and a pint or spend an evening with a bunch of friends; you’re going to have a good time. The Silver Spur 28 King St+ North If you’ve got spurs that jingle, jan&, jingle, then the Spur is for you. Decent prices, pool, and if you’re lucky, live country music.
Williams Coffee Pub University Plaza
Stanley Burger 2lQ King St. North Right next door to Phil’s, Stanley’s makes a damn fme burger. The patties are meaty, and the toppings arc fresh. The stti are aiways pleasant, (which is remarkable considering how many smashed people wander in there after a night at Phil’s) and the prices are reasonable. Warning: the “Super Stan” is a monster.
The only franchised ctie I’m going to mention, Williams is brand new and really nice. Good menu, good prices, and of course, lots of coffee. The plus side is it’s 24 hours, and evidently busy even at 4 a.m. The down side is that there are usually tons of high school students smoking like fiends.
Generation X XX Regina St. W.
Evidently, Inner City won some award for best theme nightclub in the country, or something. It’s like a big tit-v inside. Pretty neat. A dance bar:
So the Bomber’s just closed, and you’re hungry for some real food. Mel’s is THE place for you. A 50’s themed restaurant with really good food that’s not too pricey, very friendly staff, free Dubble Bubble with every order, and the home of the Elvis Challenge.
With a wide and varied selection of foreign ftis, anime and Hong Kong action flicks, Gen X is a student’s dream. It’s selection isn’t anywhere near as big as Jumbo or Blockbuster, but this small local business makes up for their lack of quantity with quality.
The Lyric 122 King St, west
The Horseshoe 17 Erb St. East
If you like dancing with 1500 other pcoplc, this is the place br you. Used to be a big movie theatre.
The only place in town for a hearty break&t, fortunately served all day long. A favouritc on weekend mornings (or afternoons, depending when you get out of bed), the helpings are generous and the prices are surprisingly cheap.
Metropolis 125 King St, West Another dance bar. Inside irs not as shiny as most others. There’s a lot of wood. And if you’re going to wear black, get out the lint brush first, or the UV lights will make it look like you have the worst case of dandruff in the universe. CE‘NY’s Maie Pauts does Friday nights.
The Gaslight 21 King St. North The only place in town for a super cheap, super filling dinner. Their $4.50 dinner specials can’)tbe beat, anal it’s fast. I mean&& The first time you go, you will spend your dinner talking about just how fast the service was. Good eatin’.
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If Blues, Jazz or Folk is what you cnjoy listening to while you enjoy a pint, a coffee or some cheap eats, check out the Moondance. Small and intimate, a great place to chat or enjoy the live music.
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by Greg Wchick Imprint staff Years from now, among those with little else to do, there will be an argument about Canadian mu&in the nineties: Who had ‘the most impact, the Tragically Hip or Sloan? Certainly as far as sales go, Gord and his band will outsell Sloan many, many times over before they’re done. Alternately, the fans who listen to the latter band tend to be active music participants - they buy a Iot of Abums, they go see shows, and, ultimately, form bands. Whereas there are legions of Hip fms that may buy one or two new albums a year. So as far as impacting Canadian music (and of course playing a pivotal role in highlighting the East Coast guitar rock scene), Sloan is the hand. This view was confirmed by the much balcyhoocd .zinc poll naming the srtatost <:ana-
dian album of all time, and while this may be going rather overboard, it at least reflects a very he&y respect for this band. -It’s become incumbent on eve:ry review or article written about Sloan of late to mention a certain Fab Four from Liverpool. Certainly that influence popped up on Twk l&moved, but One chord to AnotLw makes the jump from inspiration to imitation. Those who would criticize Oasis for musical thievery have no right to turn around and laud this album, because in one sense this is nothing but Sloan’s (What’s the Story) Mtirg Gb, albeit with a slight bit of Sloan’s traditional Pixies feel. This adds up to a satisfying album, though Twice Remwed is still a better work. If nothing else, Sloan have crafted two ofthe best radio singles of the year with “The Good in Evcryonc”
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“Anyone Who’s Anyone,” the quick riffng ‘G Turns to D,” even the touching beauty of “Junior Panthers” would be a refreshing single choice. Derivative yes, but Sloan ultimately succeed at this retro sound with both some fine production work (by the band apparently) and some undeniably fantastic songwriting. There’s plenty of bands in the world right now jumping on the Lennon/ McCartney bandwagon, but it still takes good songwriting to rise to the top of the heap, and Sloan are more than up to the challenge. Both of the band’s previous releases have had a substantial inpact on indie bands the nation over, and it will be quite interesting in the ensuing months to see if a crop of acts start listening to 60s bands and making music to match. This album is probably as far as the barId can go with this sound, and their next album (FF there is one) will probably require another change in sound, lest they start to parody themselves. Derivative, yes,. . but you’d have to be a hard-hearted bastard not to smile and dance along.
There are tear-jerky ballads, like “Help Me Scrape the Mucus off My Brain,” foot-stomping numbers lie the awesome “Piss Up a Rope,” and good-ale hoedown numbers like “Mister Richard Smoker” and “Japanese Cowbuy.” If you actually didn’t take the time to listen to the lyrics, you might be fooled into thinking this is an average country album. Nothing could be further from the truth. Witness this, from “‘Mister Richard Smoker” (which is about a dance-club boy, much like Frank Zappa’s “Dancing Fool”.) And I quote: “Mister Richard Smoker, you’re a chicken choker, tonight you’re going to let it all hang out”, or the chorus from “Piss Up A Rope”: “You can piss up a rope, and you can put on your shoes, hit the road get truckin’; pack your bags, I don’t need the agony your knees vou big booty bitch startsucking; ~YILI ride my&s like a horse in a saddle, now you’re up shit’s creek with a turd for a paddle, and I can’t cope, I’ll piss up a rope.” Not exactly the man in black, now is it? This is, of course, closer to a novelty than a proper album; I caution the jaded GenX music fan that this CD will likely get tedious very quickly (Just ask Sandy Atwal about that). However, if you’re a country fan, you might like this; if you’re a Wecn fan, you might think this a weird(er) offering, but something that’s still kinda cool. If you’re the average music fan, and you’re looking for a laugh, you just might like 12 Gulclen cmntry GTeats.
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song. But the former disposes of them, and it’s loses quite a bit in a transition, though the opening of low chimey keyboards is more thawssatisfactory. They do approach their usual genius in other places though. Old pal Alison Goldfrapp is brought back for some haunting vocals on Vwr Bud? (‘“dirty water” in Welsh apparently) that strongly recall her work on Snti&ion’s “Sad But True.” Yet the treatment here is entirely different; fast, tight and high percussion make this track simultaneously fst and slow, leaving the listener predictably motionless. Meanwhile the band swing from chilling vocal and keyboard movements to more sinister and grating booms and thumps and bleeps. CcAdnan’s” has a watery, um, undercurrent, and a loping beat-with more creepy backdrops, and enough variation to make us wmt more. The last track, apparently the keynote piece, is called “Out There Somewhere?” and one could call it Orbital’s UFCM - an album that attempted to put a soundtrack to alien abduction. It’s also possibly the most ambitious thing th> Hartnoll brothers have ever attempted, coming the closest they ever have to a true composition in a symphonic sense. Through two parts and 27 minutes the song moves through many parts and many moods, though all of them linked together throughout - a drum beat here, a synth bit there. It’s a remarkable achievement, and at no time does it become tiresome, unlike the other marathon tracks on this record. Orbital make their fans work a little more this time around, and although Snzidimttin is still their most powerfLl work, the intense effort poured intoln Sties pays off in different ways that can be equally satisfying. Besides which, the Hart-n& are still quantum leaps away from their competition, arranging works of art with an attention to detail that makes them almost: peerless in music today. In Sides is yet&other chapter in what is fast becoming one of the most important bodies of work in music this decade.
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What exacdy, you may ask, does a man ordained in the church of Satando? Well, in the case of the Reverend Marilvn Manson, he puts out records. Unfortunately, Marilyn seems to have been a little lax in his dark prayers lately, because this album is a fairly major disappointment. To start with, there is simply not a iot of music. Brief interludes of samples and fimny noises that pass as between-tracks filler on some albums count as real tracks here,at least as fz as the liner notes go. So, though it looks like you’re getting 15 tracks, it’s more like 3 actuaI tracks, with 4 remixes, 1 cover, and the rest is shit. Not to knock people having ti splicing and mixing bits and bites into something in-
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grace; the Eurythmics cover “Sweetdreams (aremadeofthis).” Here, Manson and the rest (Twiggy Ramirez, Daisy Berkowitz and Madonna Wayne Gacy; yes, all have the first names of female models and the last names of murderers) have actually done something creative. Sure it’s a cover, but it’s radically different from the original, yet still a really good song. 1 gotta admit, the next timeIheartheEurythmics do it, I’m going to think of Marilyn Manson, and t&tit is the mark of a successfid cover. All in all, unless you reaUy want to pay full album price for sound bites and a few remixes, don’t bother. I like Marilyn Manson, but I’d wait until they come out with an album of actual songs before I drop my cash.
tion. She seems to be on a rocketship to stardom. The disc starts with the title track, a sfow and frankly unexpected tune (based on what I cxpetted from “Little Sins”). A couby Chris Edgintm Imprint staff ple of listens and the song grows, as does much of the remaining album. Singer/songwriter Wendy Following Yngels & OrdiLands pushes through her fast nary Men” is “Trouble, Tie, & debut album Anpds @ Ovdinmy Mm with intrigue and compas- Tears” with its equally melodic sion. Lands, a Toronto native, lines. Lands sings Y’ll get over it/ There’s no more fighting for it/ I was recently picked-up by EM1 &er Anp&.. was releasedas an can’t think tonight/ As cold asyou can lx? Generally the lyrical conindependent (Sept. 95’, previously availablein Toronto only) and tent is angry and depressing now her single “Little Sins” can (haven’t heard that lately) but the music makes up for the somebe heard on CFNY’s regular rota-
times cliche words. Songs like “One Love” which exclaims Xll this weakness/ And too much blindness/ So much sadness for one love/ For one love” seem like texbook lyrics but the music overrides this and provides a decent final product. Lands’ voice is fantastic with her seemingly endless range and versatility. Her quiet moments are impacting with heart and passion, and she equally plunges into emotions of anger and helplessness on harder tracks. Anp6 & Ordinaly Mm will indeed put Wendy Lands into the limelight, but for how long is anyone’s guess.
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by Hashish Mkhra special to Imprint One of the apparently bigger blockbusters of the summer was Mission: Impossible. No doubt many of us sheLled out five bucks to see Tom Cruise play the lead in this adaptation from the TV series. The not so good news was many of us also agreed the movie was a flop - more worth seeing at home with some friends and tasty nachos. Still undeterred, I went and bought the soundtrack the nexr day. This was more based on nostalgia of wanting to listen to the old Mission Impossible theme song than anything else. Turns out the original theme isn’t on the CD. So how good is the soundtrack? Not bad. It’s got a good selection of alternative songs mixed in with new versions of the lMission Impossible theme that mlde it fairly acceptable background music:. It does however, have some exceptional material that stands out from the regular blah.
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Interesting, to say the least. Slowing it down gives the musicians a chance to really play with the sounds, and Neurosis does this exceflendy, twisting their guitar sounds around and around in a mesmerising fashion. They also take the time to really mess around with the drum patterns, and the rhythms coming out of the toms are complex at worst, hypnotizing at best. Neurosis also experiment with some piano parts, and “I% rify” has a particularly haunting bagpipe part. They’ve certainly put a lot of time and effort into this production.
New Revolutions However, there are some down sides to the album. My personal complaint is the vocals. Always screamed and distorted, the songs could have benefited from some of the variety that can be seen in many other aspects of the album. The lyrics are a little tired as well. All the stock death metal words are present in abundance. Things are “bleeding” or being “consumed,” there are plenty of references to “war” and “death,” “fire” and “grim fate.” Take the first three lines of “Aeon” for example. LcIllumination bleeds fire; Karmic well of deceit; blood will nourish.” I’m sorry, but this sort of thing leads me to think that these guys listened to just a I&& too much Black Sabbath asyoung children. For better or for worse, the songs are epics. The two spoken word tracks (though the lyrics are a little d8icult to make out and they+e not in the liner notes) total slightly over 3 minutes, leaving 7 tracks to make up about 65 more minutes of music. The title track ‘Through Silver in Blood” is over 12 minutes long, as is ??urify~ and two others break the 10 minute mark. Other than that, the songs are nice. No, I mean it. You can put this album on in the background and just sort of drift away like you are supposed to be able to with ambient stufF.Ifyou’ve been bashing your head to some serious metal and need to chill out, I’d recommend Neurosis.
with strong purposell remarks suggestive of Big Brother. The other artists on the CD include Massive Attack, Bjork, Skunk Anansie, Longpigs, and Salt. A track everyone will recognize is Dreams by the Cranberries much more mainstream. The orchestral themes are composed by Mullen and Clayton of U2 f;une (yesl), and Danny Elfman (Batman). I’m sure you’ve heard the new Mission Impossible theme song with the distinct U2 sound. It’s all right, if you haven’t heard at least once in the previous week. On the most part, the remaining orchestral tracks are like they are in many movies: boring. The surprising orchestral track is “Trouble” by Elfman which reminds me of dramatic Star Wars themes (John Wiiarns) andThe Planets (Hoist). It slips into a chaotic start and neatly organizes itselfover the course of the piece, pullmine, but you’re a clever swine - * ing you in briefly to get excited with the Mission Impossible endyou never let your mask slip, you never admit to it, you never wore ing. This track, though short, is a piece that dcmonstratcs that orit...,” the whole song is a jewel of passionate hatred. Something eve- chestrated music can actually be ryone who holds any anger in fun (scary, eh?) . Overall the CD is one that their heart will relate to. does take a while to grow on you, Other charming alternative as does a lot of alternative music. songs on the track include “No The good news is it is music you Government” by Nicolette. This shouldn’t get real sick of soon. is we’ll say, an inreresting song,
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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 14 Rake The Roof Yard Sale 8:OOam to 1:OOpm. K-W Little Theatre 9 Princess St-E. Watertoo. Call 886-0660
1st Annual Tenants Day at Nathan Philips Square, Toronto 11 :OOam2:0Opm. Mayor, speakers, music SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 15 K-W Chamber Music Society presents Alexander Tsyelyakov piano. KWCMS music rmm 57 Young St. W. Waterloo. Tickets $20; Sr. $15; St. $12. Reservations 886-l 673 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Interested In Cultural Management? 2A Applied Studies students only. Hagey Hall 373,4:OOpm. Info call Wm Poole HH144. ext 5057 or Svlvia Hannigan HH143, ext. 5058. a K-W Blood Donor Clinic - Rink in the Park. Raiter Rm. 1:30-8:OO om. 99 Sea&am Dr. Waterloo. ’ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Jewish Students Assoc. First Meeting Important! Please attend to elect executive, discuss fall events and Yom Kippur. MC 4058 at 5:30 pm. Questions call ext JSA2. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Beer Show: The Great Canadian Srewing Festival. 150 types of beer to sample from across Canada, Europe and USA. University of Guetph, Gyphon Centre. Runs from Sept. 2022. $8. admission. Call (519) 767-5060.
Facultv of Aplied Sciences:
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Ross and Dorfs Dixon Award-available to al ind3rd or 4th year for financial need and academic achievement. Deadline: Oct. 1 l/96 Mark Forster Memorltil Scholarship-available to 3rd or 4th year Kinesiology. Deadline: Jan. 31/97 Andrea Fras8r Memorial Scholarship available to 3rd or 4th year Kinesiology. Deadline: Oct. 11/96 Michael Gellner Memorial Scholarshipavailable to 36 Kinesiokqy or Health Studies. Deadline: Mar. 31/97 Robert Haworth Scholarship-completion of 3rd year in an honours program in resource management related to Park Planning and Management, Recreation, Natural Heritage or Outdoor Recreation. Deadline: May 31/97 Kate Kenny Memorial Award-available to 4A Kinesioiogy with an interest in rehabilitative medicine. Deadline: Oct. 31/96 Warren Lavery Memorial Award-available to 2nd year Kinesiology students with a minimum overall average of 83%. Deadline: Oct. 11/96 Ron May Memorial Award-available to 3rd or 4th year Recreation. Deadline: Oct. 11196 RAWCO-available to 2nd,3rd or 4th year Recreation and Leisure Studies. Deadline: Jan 31/97
Facultv of Arts: Arts Student
Union Award-available to all Arts students. Deadline: Oct. 31196 Robln K, BankslPacioll Award-available to2AAccountancyStudies. Deadtine: Sept. 30/96 Concordia Club Award-available to 3rd year Regular or 3A Co-op Germanic & Slavic. Deadline: Jan. 31197 Quintext Co-op EnglishAward-available to 4A English. Deadline: Sept. 30/96
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able to 38. Deadline: Mar. 31/97 J.P. Bickeil Foundation Bursariesavailable to all Chemical students. Deadline: Sept. 30/96 Canadian Hospital Engineering Society’s Scholarship-available to 38. Deadline: Mar. 31/97 Canadian Posture and Seating Centre Scholarship-available to all. Deadline: Oct. 1 I/96 Consulting Engineers of Ontario Scholarship-available to all 38. Deadline: Mar. 31197 John Deere Limited Scholarship-available to 38 Mechanical. Deadline: Mar. 31197 D&an Scholarship-available to 4A CiviL Deadline: Feb. 28197 Randy Duxbury Mamotil Award-available to 38 Chemical. Deadline: Mar. 31/ 97 S.C. Johnson & Son Ltd. Environmental Scholarship-available to 3rd year Chemical. Deadline: May 31/97 Ontario Professional Engineers Foun,dation Undergraduate Scholarshipavailable to all 28 & 38 based on extracurricular and marks. Deadline: Nov. 29196 Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship-available to 3B Civil,Water Resource Management students. Deadline: May 31/ 97 Standard Products (Canada) Ltd. Award-available to 1 B or above in Mechanical or Chemical if home address is in County or Municipality of Perth, Huron or Halton. Deadline: Sept. 30/96 Jack Wisemen Award-available to 38 or 4A Civil. Deadline: Sept. 30/96
Faculty of Environmental Studies Shelley Ellison Memorial Award-available to 3rd year Planning. Deadline: Nov. 29196 John Geddes Memorial Award-available to ERS, Geography and Planning. Deadline: Oct. 31/96 Robert tlaworth ScholarshIp-available to 3B Park Planning and Management, Recreation, Natural Heritage and Planning. Outdoor Education. Deadline: May 31/97 I.O.D.E.-Applied EcologyAward-available to all 4th year. Deadline: Sept. 30/ 96 Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship-avai Iable to 3rd year Environment & Resource Studies, Planning, Water Resource Mgt. Deadline: May 31197
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CCljNSElLING SERVICES
Counselllng Services Fall ‘96 Pre grams: Personal/Social Workshops: Assertion training, Better ways of getting mad:anger management skiIls,Eating disorders,Exam stress management,procrastination,Self-esteem enhancement group, Stress management through relaxation training. Study Skills Program: study skills workshops are offered for students who wish to improve their ability to read, listen,take notes,concentrate,manage their time,study, and write exams-Each workshop is 4 weeks long;a second series of workshops is offered later in the term. Exam Preparation Workshops include effective and efficient ways of scheduling and preparing for exams, plus some strategies to use while writingan exam. Each workshop is 1 week long;these workshops are offered in the 3rd month of the term. Car0er Development Program: Interest Assessment Workshops-discover bow your interests relate to specific vocational opportunities. Each workshop is 2 weeks long. Explore Your Personaliity Type Workshops-discover how your personal strengths relate to your preferred ways of working. Each workshop is 2 weeks long. Career Planning Workshop-explore your personal interests, skills and values and work towards developing a comprehensive career plan .This workshop is 4 weeks long. Guided Self-Change of Alcohol ‘Use Program: This confidential program that allows you to be active in setting your own treatment goals. It provides an opportunity to learn about the situations that trigger high risk drinking and to develop ways to deal with high risk drinking situations. Come in to Counselling Services (NH2080) and ask to complete the GSC screening package, or ask to speak to Lisa. Workshops begin the2nd or 3rd week of September. (A minimal materials fee is charged for most workshops.)
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LIBRARY TCWRS & WQRKSHOPSI
Friday, Sept. 13 - 10:30am All librariesguided Library tours. 11:30am Davis Centre Library/Dana Porter Library guided Library tours Monday, Sept 160 11 :OOam Davis Centre Library - new to the UW Library Public Workstations? 11:30am-12:30pm - Dana Porter Library - new to UW Library Public Workstations? 1 :OO pm-2:OOpm - Davis Centre Library - New to the UW Library Public workstations? 2:30pm-3:3Opm Dana Porter Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations? Thy, Sept. 17 - 9% am -Davis Centre Library - CD-ROM Searching: The Basics; 11 :OO am-noon - Davis Centre Library -New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 11:3Oam-12:3Opm - Dana Porter Library - New to the UW library Public Workstations?;1 :OOpm - 2:OUpm Davis Centre Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations?;2:3Opm 3:30pm - Dana Porter Library - New to the UW Librarv Public Workstations? Wednesday, Sept. 18 -10:3Oam - Davis Centre Library - CD-ROM Searching: The 8asics; 1 l:OOam - noon - Davis Centre Library-New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 11:30am - 12:30 pm - Dana Porter Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 1 :OOpm2:00pm - Davis Centre Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 1:30pm - Davis Centre Library - lnformation for all Graduate Students: 2:OOpm 3:00 pm - UMD Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 2:3Opm 3:30pm - Dana Porter Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations? Thursday, Sept. 19 - 11 :OOam-noon UMD Library/Davis Centre Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 11:30am-12:3Opm - Dana Porter Library - New to the UW Library Public Workstations?; 1 :OOpm-2:OOpm - Davis Centre Library - New to the UW Library Pubfic Workstations?; 2:3Opm-3:3Opm Dana Porter Library - New to the UW Library Public workstations?; 2:3Opm Dana Porter Library - CD ROM Searching: The Basics; 2:30 pm - Davis Centre Library - Information for all Graduate
Students
Facultv of Mathematics: Andersen Consulting Scholatshipavailable to 36 Math. Deadline: Mar. 31/ 97 8ell Sygma Computer Science Awardavailable to 4th year Computer Science. Deadline: Oct. 31196 Cerfified Management Accounting Bursary-available to full-time students in Mathematics+usiness Administration/Chartered Accountancy/Management Accountancy. Preference will be given to students who attended high school in counties of Perth, Waterloo or Wellington. Deadline: Sept h 30196 Electrohome75th AnniversaryScholarship-available to 38 Computer Science. Deadline: Mar. 31/97 K.C. Lee Computer Science Scholarship-available to 28 Computer Science. Deadline: Nov. 29196 AX. Nielsen Company Bursary-available to all in 2nd,3rd and4th year. Deadline: Sept. 30196 Friar Luca Pacioli Award-available to 2A Accountancy Studies. Deadline: Sept. 30/96 Sun life of Canada Award-available to 2nd year Actuarial Science. Deadline: Nov. 29/96
Faculty of Science: David M. Forget Memorial Award in Geology-available to 2A Earth Science, see department. S.C. Johnson & Son Ltd. Environmental Scholarship-availabte to 3rd year Chemistry. Deadline: May 31/97 Marcel Pequegnat Scholarshlp-available to 38 Earth Science/Water Resource Mgt. Deadline: May 31197
Lose weight, lose inches, feel great. Cal Sandi (800)322-9702. LSAT-MCAT-GMAT-GREon campus PREP! Flexible formats including weekends for $195. Instant info: prep@istar.ca or http:0 www.prep.com. Richardson -Since 1979 -1-800-41 O-PREP.
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Models and actors needed by Kitchener agency for local and Toronto assignments. Skills workshops available for beginners. We work within your schedule. For an appointment call 7he Look’ Company 743-65513 9:OO am - 9:OO pm. Sitter wanted for 18month old active boy. M-W-F 1:30-2:3Opm and Tue. and Thurs. 3-4:3Opm. ECE student preferred and/or a student whc
DEADUMisMondclysat5p.m.atthelMPRlM&ceSlC 1116 Went rates W20 wordM$ after 2tYt GST tmwmknt: $5J20 wordd.~~ after 2W+ GST business (stwknt, nwstudwt): after 2Wt GST
STUDENT EMPLOYMEIUT ofvomlMlTlEs The following employment opportunities are now available. Interested applicants should respond directly to the contact indicated. Projectionist& Camera OperatorsAudio Visual Centre $9.00/hr. Flexible hours. Preference given to students with 4 terms to work. Contact Lenora Wilson at Ext. 5114 or report to the Audio Visual Centre Eng 2 1309.
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English tutors needed to tutor intemationai students on a oneto-one basis in oral and written English. Once a week for one term, approx. 2-3 hrs/wk. For info call Darlene &an ext. 2814. Be a Big Sisters Volunteer! Training sessions commence Sept. 16,18,23/96 or Nov. 5,7,12/96. Please call 743-5206. Wanted: energetic, enthusiastic young women to be Spark, Brownie, Girl Guide or Pathfinder leaders. Within the university vicinity. For info call call Lynne at 88443098. Volunteer driving force: do you have a car and some free time? Drivers needed to drive seniors from their home to a senior day program. Mileage is reimbursed. ContactVoiunteerServices8886488. Ntied: Volunteers needed to assist with answering phone, typing and customer service in a busy office environmerit. Requires at least a one year commitment. Contact Volunteer Sehrices
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Homework Helpers Needed: Big Sisters requires students to tutor &mentary/highschooJ students who have academic difficulties. Access to a vehicle is an asset. Trainina Wed. Sept. 25/96 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. call 743-5266. Watertoo Oxford District Secondary School in Baden is looking for volunteers to help out with Special Ed Department. Excellent experience for students wanting to go to Teachers College or Social Service field. Contact Bill Bond at 634-5441 between 8:00 am & 490 pm.
Volunteers needed to work with preschool children in child care settings. No previous experience with children required. 2-3 hours per week. Great experience, call Bill at Notre Dame of St. Agatha Preschool Support Service 7411122. Lexington Public School is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to work with students in classrooms, in small groups or on an individual basis. Call Brigitta at 747-3314 if you are interested. Kitchener Parts and Recreation - for info regarding the following call Deb 741-2226: Sledge hockey coaches needed! No experience necessary, training provided. Modified hockey for individuals with disabilities. Saturdays 12:30-2:30 pm, Ott to March. Want to get wet?? Aquatic volunteers needed for men and women with disabilities. Will adapt to your schedule. Receive free pool pass. Poker, euchre, crazy-eights?? Male volunteer sought for weekly card game. Gentlemen looking for card-buddy. Time/ location fiexible. Learn about a different culture while you show a new immigrant how to be a part of our community. For more information , call the K-W YMCA Host Proqram at 579-9622. Make a difference in a child’s life1 friends, a service of Canadian Mental tiealth Association Waterloo Regional Branch, is seeking volunteers to support children one-to-one to develop their self esteem and social skills. Call 744-4806 ext. 335.
The K-W Chamber of Commerce is offering 1O-college and university students the opportunity to work as a team of reporters for the upcoming Power of Partnerships Forum on Oct. 5/96 at Conestoga College, Doon Campus, in Kitchener. For info call Margaret DeVries 725-3902. Deadline: Sept. 20/96.
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