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Feds back in with OUSA UW upgrades membership in Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance byRobSchinidt

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W Federation of Students reestablished full membership in Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) at the December 6council after seven months of reduced membership. The membership reduction from full membership to associate membership was a reaction to concerns by the previous and current Feds executive and council that the organization was not representing UW students effectively. A report presented at the last council meeting by Robin Stewart, FedsVP Education, identified five problem areas and improvements. Biggest improvements were noted in the financial and policy production areas. Deficit in OUSA has been reduced from $60,000 three years ago to $13,000. This deficit has been financed by member fee advances. Policy production is up from last year when only one policy document

was produced. Other areas of sdme improvement inelude communication, membership commitment and decision making. The motion to upgrade membership was passed by all minus one abstention and

take to represent professional faculties’ interests better?” Since the council meeting in December, OUSA has responded by establishing a Professional Faculties Working Group that Kulkarni will be attending as one of UW’s

UJMbeing on board lends OUSA “more ‘credibility,” according to Executive Director Andrew Bogs. one nay. The naysayer, Doug Suerich, engineering councillor, said, “They have improved, but have they improved for us to give them $ZZ,OOO?” Sanjay Kulkarni, another engineering councillor, asked during the debate whether “there were any initiatives OUSA could

representatives. Boggs stated that all faculties that will be facing deregulation will be represented including optometry, engineering and computer science. OUSA is run day-to-day bjr the Executive Director Andrew Boggs, who has held the position since May 1998. He has worked

hard since his hiring to respond to UW and other member concerns. Boggs said UW’s rejoining is “A show of faith in the organization.” OUSA is on track for a provincial election, which has to happen withing a year and a half. UW being on board lends OUSA umore credibility,” according to Boggs. “If the bureaucrats think we are a weak organization they won’t take us seriously. UW on board again as a full and founding member and McMaster full-time students members since October strengthens our organiza tion.” One initiative, the Provincial Election Coalition, will provide “A coherent province-wide strategy,” according to Boggs. Made up of most major post-secondary school political organization. Because of the various views on tuition and deregulation the group won’t necessarily talk about tuition levels. Rather, they will focus on student aid and debt levels to ensure accessibility-

Student Life Centre CIBC robbed byTracy Hunt hnprint

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n Thursday, December 31, at approximately 12:45 p.m., a man entered the Student Life Centre CJBC and presented a note to the teller demanding money. The teller turned over an undisclosed amount of money and the man fled on foot. Besides the tellers on duty there was only one other customer in the bank at the time. There were no signs of weapons and

manager of the Student Li e Centre CIBC. She assures that it was not compromised at any time. This has never happened at this branch before and is being treated as an isolated incident. “This is part of doing business-unfortunately,” says I3 ishop. Bishop went on to say that the holiday season usually brings on a rash of robberies in the retail businesses and occasiowHy a bank will be the target. The police are looking for:i a white

“This is part of doing business unfortunately” says Bishop. no violence was used. The police were notified after the perpetrator had left. CIBC has strict procedures in place for situations like these to ensure employee and public safety. All procedures were followed and no one was injured. “Our biggest concern is employee and customer safety,” said Annette Bishop,

m&e approximately 5 ’ 8” to 5 ’ 10” tall with a medium build and light brown hair. His age is estimated to be betwecn 27-34. He was wearing dark pants, a gray hooded sweater with the hood pulled up and a green jacket. Anyone who has information concerning this case can contact Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).

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or the last few months, the controversy surrounding the Programmer position with rhe Feds has mainly centred around who the position would belong to. After the departure of Frazer Hadwin at the beginning of the faI1 term, the Feds have been without a programmer to coordinate events at Fed Hall. The position has now been filled by John Workman, who has the job for four months as a co-op student. Workman has been working as a sort of entertainment coordinater for the last two years. The 3B Applied Studies student says that he was “dying for hiphop, R & B, and house” since his first year on campus. To this end, he began coordinating hip hop and R&B nights at the Bombshelter in conjunction with the Feds. Last term he hosted every Friday night at the Bomber, which brought “people who would never be in the Bomber” in. After Hadwin was dismissed, Workman inquired about the Programmerpostasaco-opjob,which was brought before the Co-op board. The post was approved, and Workman became the newest Feds programmer. Workman says he wants more people to start using the campus bars rather than going off campus

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to other establishments. “[The students] are paying for the bars, so they should use them,” he said. To this end he has scheduled a diverse array of performers. There will be a Thursday night concert series featuring local talent from around the K-W area, as well as a Friday afternoon series featuring Craig Cardiff, Shannon Lyon, and Mark Weston

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rotating shows. Friday nights will alternate between hip-hop/R & B and house music every other week. Next Thursday’s concert will feature Mark Perak, a celebrated local talent. Bands interested in performing on Thursdays should submit a demo tape/CD to John Workman in the Feds office.

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Nominations for Feds’ Exec are now Federation of Students elections are coming up and nomination forms are available in the Feds’ office. Forms are due back by4130 p.m. on Friday, January 15,1999. All executive positions are fulltime paid positions. Submit your nomination and see your name in Imprint.

COP Charity Ball The Committee of Presidents is holding the first and hopefully annual Charity Ball on February7 from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tickets are available now through the Feds or Societies and will cost $20 per person or $35 a couple. Proceeds to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

Enginewsletter is banned for now November 19 was the last issue published of the Enginewsletter by Engineering Society A (each co-op stream has a different society executive). Dean of Engineering, Sujeet Chaudhuri, told the EngSoc executive to discontinue publication of the joke newsletter after complaints by students of an inappropriate article. The newsletter joke article stemmed from a comment made by Micah Potechin, one of the editors of the newsletter and academic director. In an academic

meeting on November 5, he made a comment which was deemed inappropriate by students at the meeting and complaints were received by EngSoc with demands for his removal, At a regular meeting of EngSoc on November 18 complaints were read and demands heard again that Potechin be removed from his position. That night, after the meeting, the decision was made to remove him from h.is directorship. The following day, November 19, an issue of Enginewsletter was published on schedule containing, on the cover, a joke about political correctness. Although Potechin was not involved in the making of the issue, his removal was referenced directly at least once, Chaudhuri received complaints directly over the content of the issue and responded by telling EngSoc not to print any further issues of the newsletter. In an interview he commented that there are concerns about control of content in the newsletter. “The only person controlling content is the editor of the newsletter at 3 a.m. the day of release,” said Chaudhuri. Angered students helped destroy copies of the November 19 issue that were not distributed. “I’m confident that Dean Chaudhuri and I can resolve all concerns and the Enginewsletter can be reestablished,” said EngSoc B President RyanChen-Wing.

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South Campus Hall Project

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Still in the works but the general idea is to make the entrance “more inviting” and if we are really lucky, more accessible. The second phase is expected to include an atrium-type enclosure and passenger elevator. Expected cost is approximately $600,000.

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Snow has caused three deaths in the region and numerous headaches. To add insult to injury a water main broke on Monday as the crews were busy removing snow, Water was cut off to part of the Plant Ops building. Crews Laurier Projects worked quickly to dig a hole in Laurier is expanding in ~ the road and repair the damage. Brantford. The plans are to renoin Skating vate the Carnegie Building for a main campus and using the old AlthoughtheTraficandParking committee recommended court building for lecturi halls. All work is being done with the against approving inline skating cooperation of the city. oncampus in November, the Joint A five storey, 400 car parking Health and Safety committee has garage on main campus is in the yet to receive a copy of the Traffic and Parking committee’s minutes. preliminary cost and feasibility

The Joint Health and Safety committee must decide on what to do with the recommendation of the Traffic and Parking committee, but has postponed their decision for the last three meetings while waiting for the minutes from “We’ve sent the that committee. minutes to Jim KaIbfleich,” said Traffic and Parking member Elaine Koolstra, who was unaware that the Joint Health and Safety board expected a copy of the minutes. The inline. skate issue continues to drag on at UW, with little communication between’ the involved parties. Meanwhile, students in theImprint office report seeing an inline skater in the snow on campus as recently as Wednesday. -

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CanadaPost to implement new payment structure franchises partly as a means to increase retail traffic, at which Jongerius scoffs. The Varietyand Post makes approximately$l50,000 rT”he past year has been tumultous in in stamp sales annually, and Xpresspost revthe postage retail world. Begin7 enue is on the rise. These figures, however, ning last May, Canada Post has’ by no means generate enough non-postal sought to impose various restrictions and profit to justify the low commissions and regulations on its outlet operators. general poor treatment of which outlet opOn December 1,1998, Canada Post was erators complain. to implement a new annual payment strucPressure from Ministers of Parliament, ture for small postal representing unoutlets. The prohappy Canada Post posed program, outlet managers, has which would affect resulted in the susover 3,000 operators pension of any struccountry-wide, intural changes for the cludes an increase in time being. the commissions of Jongerius is fulI-service urban hoping for a 7.5 per branches, such as the cent kickback on outlet at the Student stamp sales, and 17 Life Centre’s Variety cent on Per and Post. Xpresspos t.The plan Canada Post will has bben placed on continue to guaranhold three times since tee rural outlets the the initial spring same annual revenue discussions,says as in 1996-97. Large Jongerius, who feels outlets with annual that Canada’s postal sales of $300,000 or services,while more would still obamong the most effitain their previously cient in the world, arranged annual servstill have much room Did YOU remember stamps? ice payment. for improvement. photo by Rob Schmidt Variety and Post Canada Post is espemanager John Jongerius explains that orcially lagging in terms of online services; ganizational changes in our postal system increased use of fax and electronic mail since last May have caused many local outservices have meant a drastic decrease in lets to close altogether. Until Canada Post’s snail mail revenue. recent decision to delay such reforms, While “everythingwith CanadaPost is Jongerius had intended to downsize the notworthwhile,” Jongeriusadds thatincreasVariety and Post from a full-service outlet to ingIy streamlined service does indicate efmerely postage. forts “to focus in on a new market.” Jongerius tells of “Mafia-like” dictatorDespite all the bedlam,Jongerius hopes ship, such as complaints from Canada Post to keep the university community postal: “I officials on Student Life Centre noise levels think with the new structure we’ll be able to impeding stamp sales. Canada Post offers justify staying open.”

It’s all Greek to me by jab Cayetano 5peak.f to fmprlnt

‘hen you hear Sigma, Pi, Mu or any other of the Greek letters mentioned on this campus it is most likely that you are listening to a discussion about some mathematical or physical property than anything else. But some students use the Greek letters to represent something equally interesting and possibly a little more exciting. For the members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity on the Waterloo campus the Greek letters SC stand for a common belief in diversity, friendship and adherence to a high standard of personal conduct. The brothers of the Theta Psi Chapter of Sigma Chi at Waterloo are part of an

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universities across North America. Their activities include hosting social events, participating in international leadership development workshops, volunteering for local charities, and travelling to other campuses to gain a broader appreciation of

university life (road trip, anyone?). This past weekend they used money raised by selling tickets for Oktoberfest to subsidize a snowboarding retreat to Blue Mountain. This month, under the sponsorship of The Fraternity & Sorority Awareness Club (FSAC), Sigma Chi is holding a number of “Rush” events to introduce you to the Greek system. If you want to meet new people, challenge yourself in new roles, and get more out of life in general, then pay heed. There will be a booth at Club Days in the SLC on January 12 and 13 where you can learn more about this group, meet some of the guys, and get the details on the events this month, which include a Snow Football game, a night of poker and a Wine and Cheese with some of our Alumni. If you

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or many students, co-operative education ‘is the biggest-reason they came to the University of Waterloo. It put the university on the map, and made it what it is. With the addition of an excellent education in engiserve both neerinE, science, or. arts, UW students are among the best prepared to face the challenges posed by today’s rapidly changing market. All this being either one said, it is surprising that there is no studentsocletytbrcoop students. Students confused about their options, or needing advice on handling the many stresses ofacoop education (let alone navigating the compfexities of Needles Hall) don’t know where toturn.Theiroptionsarelimited-go toCoop or rely on rumours and hearsay. Needless to say, going to Co-op frequenrly doesn’t help, since Co-op staff are constrained by the rules under which they

work. For example, they officially prohibit communication between employers and students after an interview. Experience, however, shows that many students and employers do communicate. Hearsay is only useful if your friends actually know something, leaving many first-yearstudents in the dark. So what’s a co-op student to do? The logical an.

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had to choose one or the other, and they chose Co-op. SAC student services are -Coop-approved and -editedleading many of those students who do know about SAC to believe it’s’a sell-out. Take Dear Co-op as an example. Co-op edits the responses, though they purport to be from SAC. There is a paradox: SAC is funded by students but controlled in part by Co-op. In order to solve this paradox, we must create a new group: the Co-op Student Society. This student-oriented organization will take over the student-service tasks that SAC currently performs, and more. Most importantly,, the society will have a permanent office in Needles Hall to serve you, and provide truly helpful advice yearround. Best of all, the society will be run, funded and controlled by co-op students. The society will: advise students on

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dealing with ca-op and employers; have a web page with employer evaluations, Watpub information, housing help for work terms, and other useful info; publish a coop student handbook introducing first-year students to the finer points of living with co-op, advocate for students on issues such as co-op fees and policy;fulfU your ideas of what a co-op society should be like. This is the.dream. We’re already improving SAC in preparation - for example the Watpubs number is now (877) WATPUBS, and we’re going to be&hard at work preparing the handbook and web page this term. But we can’t change co-op without your assistance. 1 Make a difference! On Wednesday, January 13, at 4:30 come to the SLC Multi-purpose Room and help shape the future of co-op at Waterloo.

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clock edges closer now to $30 a.m.Thursday, as I write this. By the time I finish, it will be close 3:30. I sit alone in the office, the las’t of my staff having left for the night. The first paper of a term is always a challenge - dealing with new volunteers, high staff turnover and no editorial board (note the vacancies in the masthead opposite. Your name could appear there. Come down and ask about it). Still distracted from the semi-organized chaos of the eve, I find myself unable to devise a single topic on which ‘to editorialize. So I instead, I ponder a number of little things that have occurred to me of late. The fuss from the pre-Christmas US/British bombing of Iraq is fmally beginning to settle a bit. Finally, there are no more obvious and tiresome “Wag the Dog” references being made, As if international politics were really that simple and black-and-white, that a President could declare war, solely to distract peopIe from his domestic problems. With the passing New Year’s everyone is already working themselves up into a worried knot about the next one. Predictions abound about the end of the woild and a computer bug that will dump society back into the stone age. What a bunch of hype. If there are any interstellar observers about, we must be providing them quite a laugh. Yeah the YZK bug will cause some problems, but nothing that can’t be weathered with a few sensible precautions. The biggest threat, in my mind, are all the looney-toons who are determined that the world will end - even if they have to do it themselves, one bullet at a time. The New Year hails the birth of the unified European currency, ehe Euro. If the consumerized Christmas wasn’t enough, this is further proof that it is not love or the human spirit that brings us all together, but money. The weather continues to make a mockery of all predictions, showing once again that, when it comes right down to it, we really don’t have a clue how this world works. Finally, as my 26th birthday looms just a few days away, I am feeling old. I have been around this university since 1992 (except for a few work terms and a one-year stint abroad, and even then I was keeping track of events here), and now I workeverydaywith.people whose student numbers begin with 96,97 or 98. I find myself, more and more, uttering those cliche words: “I remember when.. .” I remember when the Imprint office was much smaller, ,and had only two or three fully functionai computers. I remember a time when the Student Life Centre was called the Campus Centre, and was only half the size. I remember a time when Fed Hall was actually packed to capacity on a regular basis, Granted, there are many who have been here a Iot longer than me, and can out-nostalgia me by a long shot. Somehow, though, that’s still no comfort.

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Year

Water-

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You, me and mutual funds s a recent graduate of the University of Waterloo, I was recentIy seected as a recipient for an Affinity FundSource advertisement. This “junk mail” was setling mutual fund “professional advice” to alumni and was by-passing our “no junk mail” sign. I am not happy to know that our valued list of University of Waterloo graduates is being used for such purposes as direct mail advertising. I do not consider this a benefit, but merely another waste of resources to an unwilling recipient. Second of all, I do not feel that the information given is entirely correct, and see a potential for misunderstanding by ‘my fellow graduates and students. The program, “endorsed by UW, that gives you access to Canada’s best mutual fund families like Fidelity, MacKenzie, Templeton and Trimark - all available with 0 per cent commissions” is not all it may seem to be. This 0 per cent commissions simply refers to the fact that there is no front or back load attached to the purcha.se.

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funds, you’ve probably heard these terms. They are often levied upon fund purchase, or on redemption. The most misconstrued fact about no load mutual funds is that there is no fee. Trust me, these mutual fund managers do not manage money-for free!

Each and every fund, even index funds, charge a fee buried within the unit value of the fund. It can be found in the prospectus of the fund, and will be stated as a MER (management expense ratio). ThecommonMERforequityfunds(funds that invest in common stocks) is around 2.5 per cent. This means that 2.5 per cent of your money is used for the “fee” which pays the salary of ihe portfolio managers, pays the research team, among other expenses. This fee varies depending on the type of fund; balanced funds are often more, since there is a fixed income (bond) component to manage, and index funds (which are designed to track an index like the TSE300) are lower, because there is very little involved in “mocking” the index. These fees are very important in the calculation of future gains, particularly when you’re calculating the effect of compdunding on those fees. 1 am in no way saying that mutual funds are bad, or inappropriate as investment, they just must be researched and understood. I felt that it was only fair that these facts be brought to

your questions. You can reach me at davecox37@hotmail.com. I just recently graduated from the Mathematics/Business program and am currently working for an institutional invest, ment management firm in Vancouver, BC. -Dug&ox Muti C&zss

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I highly recommend that anyone interested in learning more about personal finance and the markets take the Canadian Securities Course, offered through the Canadian Securities Institute (www.csi.ca). If anyone has any questions about investing, I would be happy to try and answer

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BJECTION: How can you write a column called Apologia? The Greek word “apologia” means a ~UOX& defense of the ti of one’s intellectual positions, positions which often have to do with one’s religion or avofh - typically, CRristiaitym - But surely you realize that today’s Postmodernist view is correct. That is, surely you realize that all religions and worldviews are mere cultural creations, that reason is but a cultural bias, and that truth does nut exist. REPLY: 1vot! You’re right about the title of my column, and, yes, I do hope in the future to give a reasoned defense of the t7rrt/r of various intellectual positions, the C/iris&n world z&w included. However, I am not at all convinced that the above Extreme Postmodernist view is correct. In fact, one of my motives for writing this column is that I belieye that Extreme Postmodernism (hereafter EP) is ,+~meb probzemutic. For example, because EP says that the world is not gccurately graspable by the human mind, EP is a view of the world. However, if all worldviews are mere cultural creations - as EP claims - then EP is a cultural creation too. So, why think that this particular cultural creation is superior to the others? Indeed, if reason is a mere cultural bias-as EP also claims-

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then there is no go& ?-t?~on for believing EP. Moreover, if there is no truth - as EP claims too - then Ep c&d be fme. so. . . why bother with EP? Perhaps some persons bother with EP because it seems to promote tolerance of other views. But is it really tolerant of other views to say that they’re all false (or their truth is indiscernable) when your reason for thinking this is merely your own cultural bias? Surely, that’s the epitome of intolerance and ethnocentric arrogance. Perhaps some persons bother with EP because they.judge that excessive claims are sometimes made on behalf of reason. But doesn’t this judgement, if we are to be persuaded by it without cutting off our heads, reqsrire an upped to reason? Surely, then; we have a good reasonnotto abandon reason ! Having said all this, I readily admit that I could be mistaken about EP, and I readily admit that I could be mistaken about the rest of the views I defend in this column. If I am mistaken, I sincerely hope that the reader will take the time to set me straight. Of course, though, I would want a good l~eacr~n for thinking that I’m mistaken - i.e., I would want a reason that is true, or reasonable to believe is true, or more true than false . l

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Action groups are activating!

elcome back to the year before YZK. 1999 at the University of Waterloo. What shall happen? Who will make IT happen? You? or somebody else? What is IT? At WPIRG we have several “IT? to make happen. One will be to organize an event featuring the Women at Clayoquot Sound and their accompanying documentary. Another IT will be a guest speaker from the Dominican Republic to tell about sweatshop conditions in developing countries - first hand stories. Look for IT as a Global Teach-In for and by youth -yes that means you the students and community youth groups from southwestern Ontario. Another IT happening is your personal choice to become socially and environmentally conscious of the world you live’ in. WPIRGinvites you toget IThappening! Attend our information meeting Wednesday January 13th at 530 p.m. in room 1302 of the Davis Centre for a mystery video screening of the utmost intrigue. You won’t be disappointed!! Social and environmental activism, public interest research and event coordination are all WPIRG activities that begin with groups of people getting together

to talk about issues of common concern, then taking action. Oh, they give their groups names and here they are: Acn’on T’Jeutrz Get ready for some laughter, creative challenge and ingenuity to present an issue in a way never been done before. Ama#sty I~f~~~~ti~nul A global concern for political prisoners is expressed through letter writing, info displays, and lobbying. Cen ffe Public farming lation moting etarian

fur

Compassionate Living interest research into the industry, pursuing legisto protect animals and prothe benefits of veganlvegdiets.

FoodNot Bomlrs Those crazy folks who love vegan food to protest militarism and poverty. Serving the poor with food and helping out at the community soup kitchen are common activities. Highway 7Publicinterest research into the environmental effects of building a super-highway to replace the current one between Kitchener and Guelph.

and the general effects media on society. People Aguhst (PAC.) Public into corporate tion, health and cerning students

Col;6orate Power interest research control of educaother matters conand the public.

HcmpActJ~t~ Anew and upstarting group wanting to look into the benefits of hemp forestry, clothing manufacturing and medical aids. &zu’io PIRC New listen for exciting from the PIRGies radio CKMS.

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10 Days for Global Justice Fair share we& is a topic of concern watch out for Students Against Sweatshops and special events around this important issue. A’twzh~furlndigenouS~~ Dedicated to providing support to the many indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world who are suffering from the destruction of their communities by corporations and governments.

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group of women researching health effects of feminine hygiene products and also their effect on the environment. Alternatives suggested.

Simon .the Troll says.

An interesting perspective on UW’s history by Mctanle

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hat do a troll, Uw, and Chris Redmond have in common? No, they are not all nasty, furry creatures. What they have in common is a book - a recently published book on UW’s history entitled Water Under the Bridge. While some cite Chris Redmond, editor of Waterloo’s Ga2;ette ,and the Daily Bule&, as the author, Chris himself passes IL ost of the credit over to Simon the Troll. fter all, it was Simon who decided to trust it hris with the accurate retelling of the ’ niversity’s history. Simon took the plunge, k hris followed suit, and what resulted was a history of UW that is both entertaining, and pretty accurate (at least, so Chris * and Simon have heard). For those of you unfamiliarwith Simon, he is usually in residence under the bridge by Health Services. But he’s been in the area long before that bridge was ever created, He first revealed himself to Chris in December, 1996. In 1997, Chris proceeded F o give Simon’s account of the university’s 4

history in a series of articles in the& zetre. It is these articles which were compiled and edited to form Watt Under die Bridge. So who would want to read about the history of the university? Anyone interested in understanding how UW began, grew and changed, or anyone wanting to know about the presidents and staff, the ins and outs with the Colleges and Waterloo Lutheran (now Laurier), the growth of Engineering, the beginning of Arts, the beginning of co-op, and more. But those more interested in reading about the arrival of

Tuffy Knight will, the napalming of a dog, sit-ins in the president’s office, visits to the unversity by Ike and Tina Turner, Germaine Cheer, a young radical named David Suzuki, and a not-soyoung, not-so-radical Brian Mulroney, will also find this book interesting. “I could never sit down and write an academic history of ‘the university.’ But give me a good StOry***,” says Chris Redmond. And the result? Water Underthe

Bridge. In addition to the events covered in this book, Chris hopes to communicate how UW has changed over the years. Obviously it has

become larger, and more complex. It is now a national university, particularly in terms of the university’s emphasis on technology and its co-op program. But Chris also believes that UW has remained a university with close ties to the KitchenerWaterloo community. “(UW] was started by business and community leaders, and it: is still tied to community leadership.” While Simon the Troll has had the opportunity to seeallof these changes take place, Chris has seen his share as well. Arriving as a Masters student in 1972, he started with the Gazette in ‘73, and has been here ever since. As he says, “I have had the opportunity to watch the university go by and to describe it,” This, as well as some heavy research and the help of the university’s official historian Ken McLaughlin (and of course Simon the Troll) have all resulted in this book. As for future endeavours, Chris plans to stay with the Gazette,and the Daily Bulletin. And Simon, well, Simon has his bridge, and though he tends not to emerge much while there is snow, you just never know when he may be watching.

As the key turns People in the know - 24-7-365 by Katherine Se40 speck/ to hnpfint

e turn the key for people,” says Nancy O’Neil, assistant manager of the Turnkey Desk in the Stua dent Life Centre (SLC) here on campus. qhe Turnkey Desk is so named because it holds the keys for a number of rooms in the SLC, as well as, other buildings on campus. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Turnkey Desk is like a mini information booth where one can find anything and everything and, at times, even request things. For instance, after numerous requests from students, the Turnkey Desk now provides Bridgehead coffee. Bridgehead coffee is bought in fair trade, where workers are paid fair wages. If something is within the budget and enough students make a request for it, the Turnkey Desk will try to fulfil1 the request. Still remember the meningitis scare last winter? Well, when the immunization clinic first started, it was the Turnkeys who helped set up everything. That’s not all they do. Many Turnkeys volunteer their time outside of their shifts to help w&h things

organized

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For

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ple, there is an upcoming Blood Donor clinic on January 25, which the Turnkeys will be helping to run (interested blood donors please sign up at the dzsk). The Turnkey desk is a really important place to know because at all odd hours,

if you have a problem, you can go to the deskand get help. All Turnkeys are trained in First Aid as well as CPR. They also help monitor the “situations” in the SLC. For example, if a scuffle occurs (which happens sometimes when people maybe had a little too much to drink at the Bomber), the Turnkeys will make an announcement over the PA. system for the scuffle to stop and for the parties involved to leave the building. If it gets serious, they will contact the campus police. The policy of the desk is that the Turnkeys never say “I don’t know” to any questi&-rs asked. One good example that has been turned into\ a joke is that one. trainee Turnkey asked a Turnkey, at what time did Herbert the squirrel go to the ES coffee shop? Now of course, Herbert is a fictitious character, but the Turnkey was determined to prove her point. So, she called the campus police and asked them, who came up with the answer, “eight o’clock.” Then the Turnkey decided to play a jokeon the Walksafe team that night, called them and asked them to pick up Herbert from the ES coffee shop for a walk to Conrad Grebel College. The Walksafe team got there and found no one. They then called up the desk and asked where Herbert was, upon which they were told that Herbert is a squirrel. By the way if anyone wishes to become friends with Herbert, you can e-mail him at herbert@hotmail.com. .

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aturday morning, I came downstairs to a view such as I’d never seen before. There was a cargo ship from Japan coming into the bay and Stanley Park and downtown were shining brilliantly in the sun - it wasn’t raining anymore. On the drive to Jericho Beach (so named for a guy named Jerry, i.e. Jerry’s Cove) after my fourth crossing of the Lion’s Gate Bridge, we took the scenic route through Stanley Park. Huge trees, mist, fog-and sun shining through it all made for a beautiful sight. After getting my ass kicked by the best runners in Canada, I stuckmyfeetin thePacificOcean. It was cold. The sky was clear and the snowy tops of the mountains were FInally revealed. Hockey Night in Canada and the Leafs at 400 p.m. was an odd feeling. Vancouver staples White Spot restaurant and Death by Chocolate made up the early evening. Befdre catching a bus back to the North Shore I wandered about downtown. Outside an office building, I saw two plant gardens being watered by an automatic sprinkler. I do not know what could be more redundant in Vancouver than watering plants. On my walk I also met up with a kid dressed in a bright banana yellow hooded fleece, riding around on a BMX bike mut-

tering “Acid. Acid.” I also saw Vancouver’s first licenced bike courier, a man dressed in a kilt riding a very decorated bike. When I finally caught the bus, I crossed the bridge for the fifth time. Apparently the architect who designed the bridge won’t let his own children use it, due to safety concerns. Oh well. It served me fine. As I climbed the hill to 20th and Kings it started to rain again. The next morning it was pouring rain. Despite this, and sore legs from Saturday’s race, I was determined to run up the mountain or at least some of it. My route took me up, above the Trans-Canada Highway #l anyway, and I became more and more amazed. I was amazed at the splendour of the harbour, the extravagance of the houses around me, and the never-ending mountain. It was definitely time to go back down. It was still raining. That afternoon we went to Granville Island and I bought my grandmother a spoon. I always get her a spoon whenever I go anywhere. She collects them. It kept raining. After dinner I made my sixth and fmal crossing of the bridge and headed back to UBC for my last night in British Columbia. At night the campus looks pretty much like any other, especially in the late fall, with bare trees and wet, dirty leaves lining the wet, dirty streets. But during

as backdrops, UBC almost takes on the form of a paradise. On my third and final morning in Vancouver, the sun was shining once again. I stood on top of, a Board of Governers monument in the middle of campus. When I spoke, my voice echoed as if I was in a tall stairwell, only there were no walls or roof, It is another mystery of the westcoast. After a final, quick tour of the campus, which must be beautiful in the summer, when the trees are full and the cherry blossoms are out, I said goodbye to my friend, and hopped on the bus for one last $2.25 trip. On the long trolley trek back downGranvi1le Street, I met a girl from Hamilton who was going home for Christmas. She left Ontario’s Steeltown after high school, and has been living in Vancouver since June. She calls it the “Amsterdam of Canada,” and plans to live there when she’s ready to settle down, In the meantime, she wants to travel, to the real Amsterdam and eventually to Australia. As a fellow Ontarian, she agrees that we are much too uptight in this province; things are better at, the relaxed pace of Commercial drive in East Vancouver, she says. As the bus pulled up to the airport, we both looked to the mountains. “Goodbye mountains,” she said. I also said my regretful goodbyes. She, at least, will be back in January. More than likely, it will be a while before I get to return, as I will have Northern Ireland to keep me busy, so I took an extra long look before heading to check in at the terminal.

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Y@u are in love with something ,yiou cannot have, and no matter l&w hard you lobby, I’m afraid l+rse tranquilizers will never be ltgalized. Fill the void with a wide aFray of over-the-counter medication,especialfy paradichlorotriethyldipropylmethane and Tylenol. Ifyou were Tchemist, you’d be laughing right about now.

This weekend will bring untold f&tunes in cake and cookies, but be careful, you may develop lactose intolerance. Fight back with v$amin C and you’ll be hale and hearty when your birthday rolls &ound. Always remember what you learned in logic class: masturbation leads to introspection (and/ 6i blindness).

You pas it’s the

may make a rare social faux soon. Don’t be embarrassed, still the season of giving, and wounded party will give you

another chance. Unfortunately, you’ll mess that up too by having sex with all three of their siblings. Now would be a good time to come up with a cover story involving drugs and Tijuana.

Life’s hardships are about to visit in spades. Buy tons of protective raingear (i.e. condoms) for a special someone’s birthday; they will share it with you thus protecting you both. Now is the time to ride the ignoble Chariot of Blazing Melancholy. Also, remember to buy books and pay tuition.

You’ve been getting a lot of email lately, but refuse to write back. What breed of bastard are you? Does it take so long to return a goddamn e-mail?! Are you so much busier than the rest of us, you fat-faced meathead? I mean, geez, Phil, write me back, okay?! Man, some people. ..

The moon is in Saturn this week, and that will spice up your personal life around the 15th and

16th.

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some drugs you’ve never taken before because now is the time to live life to the fullest! If you get mugged or killed, though, don’t come whinin’ to me. take

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: “Owen can’t possibly know what I’m thinking.” Your right, but in many ways, you’re wrong. Does this sound contrary? That’s because it’s not. Now is the only time to be 45 minutes ago. Think about it, then stop. If you’ve read this far, call 91 f-4733 for a prize!

Something has been nagging at the back of your mind since Kwanzaa (or Solstice, or Chanukah) and next week you will finally discover that it’s nothing and you’re slowly going insane. The best thing to do is climb to the top of the Dana Porter with a high-powered rifle and thin out the crowd.

You can try and try but you cannot

reel aim what was lost. You’ve had YOU r time

to mourn the loss and you must move on for the sake of all involved. According to a popular song I heard, the hardest part of love is letting go. I mean, it was a goldfish, for Pete’s sake. Remember to jiggle the handle. now

Well, you made it through the first week of classes and you’re stir1 alive. Celebrate this weekend by dropping out of school and becoming a nomadic bum in Southern Europe. If you do, you will be rewarded by Milesh, the god of wheel barrows and ox-carts. Before you go though, m’ake sure you feed your bed, lock your plants, and water the door.

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Rights Commissioner

This position works hard with the VP Stud&t Issues to promote and create awareness of human rights on campus, You will work with awareness weeks and other projects to fight discrimination. (5 hours/week) Contact Meredith at X6331 or fedissue@feds.uwaterloo.ca

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Counselling Services Coordinator

You will be asked to coordinate academic & financial counselling services for students. This will include basic services as well as special projects. (5 hours/week) Contact Robin at X2340 or fedvped@feds.uwaterloo.ca

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years now. LASIK is similar to PRK, except that the surgeon, before employing the laser, uses a special cutting instrument called a microkeratome. The microkeratome cuts across the surface of the cornea, creating a small flap of skin. The surgeon then folds back the flap, atid the laser shapes the cornea in the area underneath

ike the famous “phantom limb syndrome,” each night, as I get into bed, I instinctively reach up to remove eyeglasses that are no longer there. On December 7, 1998, I underwent laser surgery to fix my severe nearsigh tedness. I have not worn corrective lenses since. In general, laser eye surgery involves reshaping the cornea of the eye to the prescription of the patient using a cool ultraviolet laser. This laser, called the “excimer” iaser, combines This is a topographical map of the author’s right eye. argon and fluorine gasses. graphic Thecomputercontrolled laser is so precise, it where the flap had been. When can remove as little as l/40 of a the laser is finished, the surgeon human cell. There are two methreplaces the skin over the cornea, ods of laser surgery, using the This (usually) eliminates the need excimer laser: Photorefractive for a bandage contact lens, and Keratectomy (PRK) and Laser In greatly reduces the possibility of Situ Koratomileusis (LASIK). pain or discomfort. Again, the laPRK is the older of the two ser operates only 30-60 seconds procedures, having been perper eye, and the whole procedure formed for over nine years. With lasts only about lo-15 minutes. PRK, the laser removes cells from LASlK can correct a greater dethe surface of the cornea, reshapgree of poor vision than PRK ing the curvature of the cornea to potentially as much as -25.00 match the shape of the patient’s diopters of myopia. At those exglasses or contact lenses. PRK can tremes, however, the probability treat myopia up to - 12 .OO diopters. of full correction decreases sigThe laser takes only 30 to 60 secnificantly. Another advantage of onds to complete one eye. The LASIK is a shorter recovery time patient is awake for the proce- good vision by the next day dure, as only a local anaesthetic is and recovery to normal vision used. The surgery is performed within a week, although the paon an out-patient basis, with the tient must be careful to avoid anything which might bump the eye patient able to return home immediately after the procedure. (i.e. contact sports) for one to two Because this procedure involves months afterwards. The disadvanremoving the protective surface tage to the LASIK procedure is layer of cell on the eye - called that the creation of the cornea1 the epithelium - the patient flap leaves a very small scar on the cornea. This can mean that the must wear a protective bandage contact lens for at least three days patient’s night vision will be perwhile the epichelium regenerates. manently affected: lights will all have a halo or starburst effect. The patient can usually return to work within three days, and There is also a one per cent chance should have good vision by one that the cornea1 flap will become infected. week after the procedure. PRK With both PRK and LASIK, has the lowest risk of complicathere is generally a 10 per cent tion of all eye surgery procedures, chance that a patient will not but a higher likelihood of discomachieve ZO/ZO vision with the first fort or pain. operation, or that their eyesight LASIK is the most recent will regress somewhat. The padevelopment in laser surgery. It tient will still need to wear low has been performed for only five

prescription lenses, or will need to undergo a second enhancement operation. The process of laser surgerycan also leave a slight haze in a person’s vision for a number of months after the operation. This is caused by a substance caused collagen. In a small number of cases, this haze will be permanent. Laser surgery cannot guarantee either perfect vision or that no complications will occur. Individuals considering laser surgery should be wary of any operation that makes those promises. Also, as a person ages, the eye naturally loses some of its flexibility, resulting in some loss of vision. This is courtesy of TLC called PresbYopia, and laser surgery cannot correct this. Laser surgery currently costs around $2000 per eye, plus optometrist’s fees for the post-op examinations. A

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The scientif?c information is all well and good, but what is it actually like to have laser eye surgery The first step was to have a preliminary exam, to see if I was a suitable candidate. For this, I went to our own School of Optometry. The Laser Centre Inc. (TLC) opened a clinic in the Optometry Buildingin thefallof WXThere is no actual laser unit there yet, but one will be installed by April of this year. The technicians at TLC performed a basic eye exam, tested the internal pressure of my eyes and used a lens meter to get the shape of my glasses lenses, to fmd my prescription. After that, a special machine was used to make a topographical map of my eyes. Using ultrasonics, the machine determined the thickness of my cornea. This is important, because the LASIK procedure penetrates into 30 per cent of the depth of the cornea.

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too thin, and the internal pressure too high, there is a danger of rupture. According to Beth Hahn, Business Manager of the UW TLC clinic, TLC turns away many patients because their corneas are too thin. She also noted

that many other laser clinics do not test for cornea1 thickness. The average human cornea is 500 to 550 microns thick. At the examination, I was also required to sign my name to a whole stack of forms. These are intended to make sure the prospective patient is completely aware of the whole process, and all the possibilities and risks. Having been deemed a suitable candidate, I was booked for surgery three weeks later. On December 7, 1998, I reported to the TLC clinic in London. Dr. Omar Hakim, the surgeon who would be operating the laser, took me into his office. He explained again what would be happening, and gave me a last chance to ask questions.

From there, I was taken back to the preparation room and seated in a comfortable reclining chair. A large window looked in on the operating room, and I could watch the patients in before me. The nurse explained the things I would have to do following the operation - antibiotic and lubricating eye drops every day for the next week, no contact sports for at least a month, wear darkglasses during the day and eye protectors at night -and then she handed me a tote bag full of all that stuff which I would need. Then it was medication time. I was given a mild sedative! and a series of eye drops, which included a local anaesthetic. Finally, the nurse ran a swab underneath my eyelids. This was a little uncomfortable. I was led into the operating room, The machine had a long,

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the bulk of the laser end. The bed ran middle of the mathe other side, The the very head of the

bed, a computer console to one side and a TV monitor on top of the machine, right in front of him. A microscope-like eyepiece was attached to the top of the machine, looking through to where my eyes would be. The computer that controls the laser had already been programmed with my specifications, so all that remained was for me to lie down in the machine. After I lay on the bed, it slid forward, moving me into the machine. Dr. Hakim once again explained what he would be doing, and told me how long it wouid take to do each eye. Then he set to work. Starting on the right eye, a plastic retainer was inserted to keep me from blinking. This stung a bit. The microkeratome unit was put on. A small suction cup was applied to my eye, and at this point my vision faded to grey. A small noise indicated that the blade had made its cut, but I neither saw nor felt it. The microkeratome was removed, and I could see again. The surgeon peeled back the flap. This I could see, and it looked weird! It was like watching someone peel a floppy centact lens off my eye Then it was time for the laser. I could see a little red dot, and the surgeon told me to concentrate on it. When the laser was working, I could hear a crackling noise and there was a smell lik;e burnt hair, but I still felt nothing. The laser did its business for barely over haif a minute, then that eye was finished. The process was then repeated for the left eye. Barely 15 minutes after walking in, the bed slid back and I stood up. Looking at the far wall, I found 1 could read the clock three metres away. Not bad for someone who, before walking into that room, couldn’t read the clock sitting beside his bed. As the anaesthetic wore off during the drive home, my eyes began to sting, and I found it more comfortable to keep them closed. At home, I went to bed and had a long nap. When I woke up, my eyes felt fine, and I could even watch television. For the first two weeks, my vision remained cloudy in patches, and at night, lights had enormous halos. Now, one month later, the haze is mostly gone, except in dim fight. and the halos have receded. My vision is practically perfect.

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lood came out at a bad time, with competitors like Duke N&em and Qtiake looming on the horizon. It developed a loyal band of followers while never managing to really leave a mark on the game market. Blood2 represents more than an upgrade of Blood. One of the reasons this is the case is that it uses the Lithtech game engine developed by Monolith which is also used for Uogo. Blood was known for its dark at-

mosphere, andBlood follows up strongly, delivering dark atmosphere in spades. You play Caleb, a dark character that is set to thwart the evil aims of the Cabal. The Cabal is a group of Chosen, which are superhuman beings that wish to try and assert control over the world. Caleb himself is a Chosen, but he has broken from the group and is determined to destroy it. The graphics are quite solid, with the heavy use of highresolution textures allowing buildings and people to really stand out. The levels are very well done, and this adds a great deal to the atmosphere. Garbage cans and bags often litter outside areas, leading me to think that the game is set in a major city. The solid architecture is made possible by

the strong graphics. Overall, difficulty level is primarily maBlood2 and the Lith tech engine nipulated by how many bullets it may not represent the very best takes to kil1 baddies. in graphics, but graphics aren’t The monsters are interesteverything. ing, but until a point release patch The weapons are one of the best partsof the game. The machine gun feels great, with a convincing muzzle flash and some kick to boot. The pistols held akimbo (one in each hand), are fun to use. One problem with the weapons is that they don’t seem to do enough damage. Spraying a If being ugly was a sin this monster would be in hell. monster with full auto magraphic courtesy chine gun fire seems to work, but you expend a is applied, stupid. A problem that lot of ammo that way. This repreBA&Z has is the failure of monsents a trend in all first person sters to react to being shot at. shooter games today, where the While it isn’t as bad as it is in

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done in order to keep the game moving as they designed it. There are many situations in Half-L$i where you wish they had allowed more realism to creep in. Besides this, there are a few too many jumping puzzIes in the game, which force a contrived feel to some parts of the game. The graphics are some of the best out there. The gritty realism that OpenGL brings to games puts it above even Unreal in my opinion, for functional purposes. Persons you meet in the game move their lips as they talk to you.

ever played, period. Despite the flaws noted above, it delivers the most solid and immersive play of any title in its genre. It is certainly one of the best games of 1498, and it will remain-strong in 1999. Although some strong titles are coming out, many of them focus exclusively on multiplayer, which place them in a different market. The reason that Half-Life is so strong is that it is obvious that an attempt was made to create an environment, not a bunch of levels vaguely strung together. It plays out like an action movie, where the difficultiesconstantly throw themselves inyourpath. This can get frustrating, as it seems to be done primarily to extend the life of the plot. Overall, Half-Life is a solid title that is sure to impress the most jaded gamer,

a/f-Lz$? represents everything that is good about first person shooters, In a market that is increasingly growing stale and overdone, Half-Life shines as an example of just what can be done. From the opening movie sequence, you get the feeling that you are in a real environment. There is no evidence of blocky, square characters that don’t talk. Gone are the lame shades of brown that pass for textures in the current king of first person shooters. Pros This does not mean that Graohics: level The HK MP5 mows down enemies. Half-Lz$e is perdesign, sound, feet. While it is weapons, artifiphoto courtesy of Sierra cial intelligence, certainly the best of its breed, it does have While there aren’t nearly enough human enemies, atmosphere. flaws. For instance, there is a dismodels (a few different scientists tinct lack of interactivity in the and only one guard model), the Cons game. If you thought that high ones that present are impressive expiosives should be able to blow indeed. Lack of interactivity, too much a chain link fence dowA, you will Hu&Life is the best single jumping and frustrating puzzles. be forced to think again. This is player first person shooter I have

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the limits somewhat. The camera takes pictures in three resolution modes, high being 1546 x 1024, medium 1152 x 768 and low being 640 x 480. This makes it a high “megapixel” (images contain more than one million pixels) camera at 1.6 million pixels. That puts it at the top of the class

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. Apple: a phoenix? by Simon

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n a stunning presentation Tuesday, Apple Computer interim CEO (“ICEO”) Steve Jobs introduced dramatic new products that bring Apple to the forefront of coolness and signal its return to the ’70s “change the world” philosophy that it was founded on. Introducing a beautiful new desktop workstation, five new colours for the iMac, MacOSXServer,andstunninggamenews, Apple clearly showed that they are focusing on the customers they love the most: home users and creative professionals. In servicing those core cuscomers, they plan to provide the hottest technology under the sun. The new Power Macintosh G3s feature copper processors at speeds up to 400 megahertz. To compliment that, the tower fea- me ~3 tures a maximum of three ’ photo Ultra ATA drives - that’s 100 CB of storage, 1 GB of memory, an included ATI RAGE 128 graphics accelerator, 400-Mbit FireWire, 1OOBaseT Ethernet, USB, and. four PC1 slots. All of this comes at a stunningly low price of $2499 Canadian. Aside from cdntaining jawdropping hardware, the ‘most fantastic aspect of the Power Mat G3 is its style. Gone is beige. In its place comes a futuristic, scifi wonder, looking for all the world like a piece of equipment from Star T&k. The ever-popular iMac was the number one-sellingcomputer this fall, with 800,000 units sold since its introduction in August, with 45 per cent either new computer buyers or those switched from the Wintel platform. The iMac has been beefed up with a faster processor and larger hard drive. But really, said Jobs, what’s important to iMac buyers has turned out not to be the mega-

hertz and megabytes. The big thing iMac buyers want, he said, is colours! Apple introduced five new “flavours” of iMac: blueberry, grape, tangerine, lime, and strawberry. “We hope that people collect all five,” quipped Jobs. Games made the next impact, as Id Software founder JohnCormacksauntered on to give the first public demonstration of Quake Arena. It was truly impressive the graphics were stunning. With Apple licensing OpenGL, said Cormack, “Apple finally has their act together,” and Id will be able to release the Mat and Windows versions simultaneously. But even more fantastic is Connectix’s announcement of Virtual Game Station, a Sony PlayStation emulator for the Mat OS. Priced at US$49, this emulator will virtually all play PlayStation games on a Macintosh. Makers of Virtual PC software, which allows users to run courtesy of Apple any PC operating system on their Mat, Connectix has gained a reputation for pulling off emulation miracles. This one is no exception, and combined with standard AT1 Rage graphics acceleration in all Mats, it establishes the Mat as a premiere gaming platform. Mat OS X Server is exciting news for system administrators, A truly modern operating system, it descends from NeXTSTEP. As a result, it is fully preemptive, has protected memory, and is extremely fast. Not only that, but it can network boot iMacs! A single Mat OS X Server, in other words, can serve a classroom full of iMacs - who could ask for anything cooler? In a demonstration at the presentation, Jobs demonstrated a single Power Macintosh G3 streaming full-screen, 24-ffis video to 50 iMacs arrayed around the stage. Apple is back.

camera also includes red eye reduction and a close-up picture mode, which allows you to take sharp pictures as close as a dozen inches. Infrared capability is also included, which allows persons with this port on their computer to transfer images directly, without cables. A great new feature that has only recently become a feature on digital products is the use of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) in order to transfer pictures. It is several times faster than using a serial cable, which means less hassle for the end user. Of course, if you don’t have a USB port, you can’t use this feature. As for the pictures themselves, they are very similar to thqse that other Kodak digital products take, only bigger.

The DVC 323 Digital Video Camera is an exciting new product. It comes with USB attachments oniy, due to the bandwidth that the device requires to film onto your computer. The DVC 323 is perfect for those that want a great Webcam, and this is what it is meant to do. If you expect’ to get a camcorder, you will be disappointed. It offers relatively high resolution video at relatively high frame rates. The software provided allows the end user to choose between quality and speed. Colour and brightness changes can also be made. The DVC 323 looks like a great idea for anyone that wants to use it as a Webcam, or to file videos for future prosperity. A word of warning, however: the file sizes can get large. The Kodak DC260 takes great pictures, is easy to use, and is jam packed with features. The DVC 323 is great for its intended chores. Individual users will have to make the final decision on this and every other product they purchase. For further reading on the Kodak DC210 and other digital offerings, please see the sites listed below. . Kodak’s official website: k@#lYWW.kodak.CUm

Track and Field team picks up where they iheft off- . burying the competition l

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he University of Waterloo Track team opened their 1999 season on December 4 in London, at the University ofWestern Ontario. There were several excellent performances from veterans, and some very promising showings from rookies. Traditionally this meet, known as the YGeason Opener,” is not high on great resuits: however. firstvear Dole vaulter Dana . Ellis’didn’t waste anytime, as she met the CIAU qualifying standard, set a meet record, a UW varsity record, and a personal best with her winning jump of3,32m. The former gymnast also impressed in other events, including the long jump, which she won in a jump of 5.29m and the 60m, in which she recorded a good time of 8.76 seconds. Alison Brazier picked up where she left off last season and was second to Ellis in the long jump. She jumped 5,22m, She also qualified for the semi-finals in the 60m, with a great time of 8.28 sets. She ended up 11 th over all. Alison also PBed (that’s personal best for the uninitiated) in her leg of the 4xZ00m. Her time, alongwith a PB from similarly vocal Allison Salter (26.3) and great runs from rookies Daniella

Carrington and Angela Player, gave the Waterloo women 3rd place. Other women’s highlights included Jill Bennett’s second place in the 6Om hurdles (9.3 1) and Angela Player’s two PB’s and fifth place finish in the same race ( 10.00 and 9.83). Lynn Coon, making a rare appearance in the 3000m, used her cross country strength to win the race in a personal best time. Niclola .

year. Rookies Paul Gill and Adrian Buchanan impressed with some fast times, and good jumps. Both made the 60m final, and PauI finished 13th in a time of 7.21 while Adrian was 8th in 7.12. Paul was fourth in the 3OOm in 35.98 sets and Adrian jumped 6.38m to t;ake 6th in the long jump. Distance runner Chris Payton took his

There were several excellent performances from veterans, and so.me very promising showings from rookies. White was4th in the 1OOOm and the4x40Om team ofAllison SalterJill Patterson, Daniella Carrington and Lynn Coon was also fourth. On the men’s side Raul Martin was second in the high jump, but he had to bow out after injuring his foot on an attempt to clear the first place height. Raul has been plagued by injuries in the past, but his removal from competition was only precautionary. He intends co compete for the entire season this

last lap as a varsity athIete running in the 1500 and then on the 4x400m “B” team. Chris has been an inspirational leader on both the track and cross country teams during his years as a Warrior, and his character and kamikaze running style will be missed. Payton was 9th in the 1500, eigth in the IOOOm, and took the baton around two laps of the 20Om track in 58.9 seconds before handing off the baton to John Lofranco. This

was hardly a symbolic passing of the torch from old to young, as Lofranco will not even be racing with the team this year. His 400m time of 57.9 was, however, a personal best. The men’s 4x4OOm “A” team excited the crowd with a blistering split of 52.8 by Paul Gill (compare that to the splits ofthose old distance runners!) and an inspired finish by veteran Kwame Smart. His finish gave the team third place. Kwame had a similar finish in the 4x20&n, as he pushed past Western’s fourth runner in the final corner to bring the baton across the line in fourth place. Making up the 4x4OOm “A” team were Neal Roberts, Gill, Greg MacDougal and Kwame. The 4xZOOm team consisted of Kwame, Gill, Adrian Buchanan and Chris McPherson. The Warriors dominated the tripIe jump as well, as Geoff Thiessen, Barry McLaughlan and Marlon Graham finished third, fourth and fifth respectively. Matt Blake had a PB in the 60m. This year, the team’s goals are to be constantly improving, and to achieve their best results at the OUAchampionships and qualie for the CIAU championships. Dana Ellis has already qualified and noti the rest must follow. The season starts up again after the Christmas break this weekend at UofT.

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men’s basketball team travelled to Findlay, Ohio over the holidays to take part in the Findlay College Holiday Tournament December 27-28. The Warriors opened the tournament with a 71-62 win over Geneva College of Pennsylvania. Tournament All-Star Mano Watsa led the charge with 23 pointsfor the Warriors. Mike Zavershnik shot 11 for 13 from the free throw line and compiled 15

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Mike Scroeder led the team with 24 points, Watsa contributed 13 and Dan Schipper had a 10 point game. Stroeder and Watsa were later named to the tournament All-Star team for their performances. January 2, the men’s basketball team headed to London to play in the Purpleand White Tournament. Player of the game, Mano Watsa scored 25 points to lift the Warriors to a 74-61 victory over Lava]. Mark Eys followed with 12 points for the day. In game two of the tournament, the Warriors were up against McGill. Mike Stroeder scored 12 points and a player of the game award in the 79-50 win.Mano Watsa scored 19 points for the Warriors. The Warriors will take their winning ways into league play January 9 when the travel to M&laster to take on the Marauders. They return home January 16 to host the Marauders. Game time is 2 p.m. at the PAC.

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the remaining spots. This year however, the whole league is balanced. Western still has to be considered the class of the league but after that,everythingis wide-open. I don’t think there is any clear favourite for second place. Western, McMaster, Lakehead and Guelph, those are the teamswe are really going to battle with this year.” “I think we should be third or fourth,” echoes second-year Warrior,Leslie Mitchell. “That would be optimum.The basketball magazine ranked us as fifth in our conference and that would still put us in the playoffs, but it would be great if we could jump into the third or fotirth spot. I think that is realistic for us.” Mitchell, who was the conference’s Rookie of the Year in 199798, has reason to be optimistic. The Warriors are coming off their best preseason in five years and have to be considered one of the top team’s to watch in 1999. “Every year almost, it has

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been sort of a re-building year,” says fifth-year Warrior and team captain Mary-Frances Lapthorne. “But, never before have we had such strong rookies. Practices this year have been more intense and we’re better at executing our offence and defence because our rookies are so tough. So, playing with them, it,hasn’t seemed like we’re in a rebuilding year even though half of our team is made up of first year players.” Waterloo’syouth-9ofits 15 players are in first year-seems to be its greatest asset. Driven by a desire to prove themselves, the Warrior freshmen have rejuvenated the team and given it a spark that hasn’t been seen in several years. “This year, there is something different, something special,” admitslapthorne. “Because thepotential of our first year players is so limitless, the growth of our team this season has not been comparable with any of my other four years.” “Our biggest strength is that we never give up,” adds Mitchell.

“We play through everything. Again$t number-four-ranked Winnipeg for example, we weredown by 16points at the halfand got back to within three. Every ‘game we play, we just don’t give up, Persistence is one of our greatest

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ichard Russo’s newest novel, &raig& Man, has a very simple solution for any university facing economic woes. Not an elegant alternative, mind you. It would offend half the campus, undoubtedly. It’s sick. Crude. Macabre, even. But it has a beautiful simplicity. If President Downey should decide to refuse to give the English dcpartment a definitive budget or threaten to fire tenured staff, Murray McArthur (or whoever is the current chair) should ask a film crew to meet him at Laura1 Creek, walk quietly down to the stream, grab a duck by the neck, and threaten to execute one each day until he receives his funding. It would also help if he was wearing a plastic nose and moustache ensemble. An academic farce set at a university campus in Pennsylvannia’s rust belt, the book examines a week in the lifeofwilliam Henry Devereaux, Jr., a man besieged. Trapped by savage department politics into becoming the chair of the English department during a drought of underfunding and budget cuts, Devereaux’s anarchistic nature rebels against demands that he conform to the machinations of his administration,’ dean, union, and department. ‘The Powers That be’ want him to make the job of downsizing the English department easier for them, while vari-

ous factions among his colleagues alternate between pleading for the elusive axe list and plotting against him. In ‘the midst of this small, acadmic reproduction of the Balkan Wars, Devereaux imagines his wife is having an affair with his Dean, copes with the breakup of his daughter’s marriage, falls halfin-love with four or five women, misses a hot top threesome, gets

mutilated, tries to pass an elusive kidney stone, and comes to terms with his father’s legacy. You get the pictum. The duck/goose incident is definitely a highlight, as are Devereaux’s encounters with the angst of the wannabe student novelists taking his creative writing class. Russ0 successfully manages to blur the line between humour

and anattackon the sensitivities of academia. The beauty of the story is author Russo’s adherence to Devereaux’s unpredicatable, anarchistic nature. In Devereaux, Russo succeeds in capturing the divisive streak in human nature that takes inappropriate action, makes cutting remarks at the wrong time, goads others into rages, and generally relishes the role of devil’s advocate. At the same time, Russo tempers this destructive streak with Devereaux’s love for his wife and daughters, his irradic moments of support for his colleagues, and his own sense of mortality. At his worst, Devereaux is a bastard, but youcan’t help sympathizing with his predicament. Through skillfully composed essays supposedly published in the campus paper, Russo gives Devereaux’s character added depth by examining his silent relationship with the absent WiuiamHenryI%vea.reaux Sr., a successfui literary critic and wandering philanderer. Through this undercurrent, Russ0 explores the differences and similaiities between parents and children with touching, yet humerous anecdotes. SYruiglct Man s publishers would like us to believe that this novel is an .“uproarious, side-splitting and true-to life, witty, com.passionate” and virtually ~impossible to put down. While my copy failed in its attempt to graft itself to my hands, &zzigh~Mmz is a wry, amusing yarn that does its best to suck you in and does a decent jdb.

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the world, so there are quite a few that have been seen in Canada but are still great to watch, like the SonyPlayStationadsandNikeads that ask the question, “What if we treated all athletes like we treat skateboarders?” and those inventive Miller Lite ads. However, there are lots of ads that have not been seen in Canada and are not io be missed, such as a Dutch public service announcement that puts a new and long deserved negative spin on America’s funniest home videos and a Hewlett-Packard ad from Singapore that gives us a glimpse of the real Mars. It seems that there are certain themes that dominate the ads, from cute kids and sports figures abound. Although not always in the expected ways, a Brazilian public service announcement with a soccer player takes quite a different turn from the average athlete commercial. As well there are a whole bunch of ads that use famous historical figures who have absolutely nothing to do with the product. If you don’t feel like a shmuck paying money to go watch commercials all night, you’ll at least be guaranteed a good laugh from this compilation.

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s the year 2000 approaches, there is increasing talk of the apocalypse and Armageddon. The media constantly relays stories of doomsday scenarios, millennium bugs, religious fanatics and cults. The world is unsure of the future. Governments are anxious. Military plans have already been devised to quell any civil unrest. Thetimeisrightforbookson the apocalypse. We are likely to see a glut of them as we get closer to 2000. There is one original book on the subject, the Bible’s Book of Revelation. Apocdjpse

ZUOOis not much more than a jazzed up version of the Book of Revelation. The book contains the original King James version of the Book of Revelation, illustrations and quotes from various sources. There are quotes from television shows, authors, philosophers and visionaries. The quotes are of opinions and visions of the apocalypse. The pictures and illustrations in the book are often blurry and hard to make out. They show scenes of the apocalypse depicted by different

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dreams ofactingin the theatre at a time when women are forbidden to perform. She eventually disguises herself as a man and auditions for Shakespeare’s play. Their ill fated love affair becomes the basis for the playRomeoadh/iet. The film’s cleverness springs from its speculation about where the playwright might have found the inspiration forRsmeo ar;rdJul’iet, The film provides the audience with adeeperunderstandingof the human emotions behind Romeo and Juliet by wittily weaving Shakespearean language and emotion intoan intoxicatinglyglamorous romance. S/rakesjWare in Luve is extremely well written. The screenplay is penned by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. It is as witty and.delightful as Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” Shakespeare’s timeless and elegant sonnets are skillfully woven into the dialogue. This screenplay is a heavy favori te for the best screen-

play Oscar. The cast of this film is superb. Fiennes is a convincing Shakespeare. Paltrow is beautiful, elegant, and intelligent. She is perfect as Shakespeare’s muse. The supporting cast, including Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth and Judi Dench, are splendid. Rush’s opportunistic producer is very funny. Judi Dench plays a shrewd, dauntingQueen Elizabeth. Other notable players are Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter. Staunton playsViola’s nurse. She is reminiscent of the Nurse in Franc0 Zefftrelli’sRo~~~andJul~~~ Carter provides many laughs as a crossdressing actor. sliakesfieare in Lwe is a de& nite Oscar contender. The film successfully combines romance, wit, slapstick comedy, theater, and sword fights. It is a touching, moving love story and it is also extremely entertaining and funny. The film was seen in New York and is currently playing in the TorQn to area.

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“Maybe One Day” featuring the wisdom of Common, and “Shinin’ Star.” This album also features Busta Rhymes but his new style with Flipmode Squad is really hurting for creativity. Alamo handles most of the production and doesasuperb job in tying together this masterpiece and the reunion of the oiiginal Brand Nubian since Grand Puba left in ‘95. Together again, the Fomdztion drops heavy knowledge for ‘99.

bands fully support Jhe legalization ofweed Iike Cypress Hill, but this album was just a weak marketing tool to sell to high school bad asses. I’m ashamed to have listened to it and I apologize to all my straight-edge people out there who can no longer afford a ten piece anymore because we spent all our money on tuition. Maybe next term.

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together so good it’s hard to listen to without listening to the entire album. The VoicesofGrand Puba, Sadat X, and Lord Jamarare meant to go together and the knowledge these three MC’s put together is incredible, This album touches on almost every aspect of a young man’s life. The hit single, “Don’t Let Et Go To Your Head,” says exactly what it has to say. Keeping your head screwed on right in these times is what it’s all about. Other impressive tracks are “The Return,” which is produced by Premier,

This compilation was probably the worst sucker punch for weed ever. Any song that even mentioned “marijuana” in the last fifteen years was put on this album. I can just picture all the alterna-wanks running in to buy this album as we speak because Willie Nelson said he smoked a j ten years ago. Yes, Willie Nelson is on the album as well as The Crystal Method and Monster Magnet. Old folk bands are on it too but I can’t even remember their names. There wasn’t even any hip-hop artists on this compilation and they probably ta1 k about sparking up the most. I can understand how some

Well Kittens fans, they’re back. With their twelfth release (excludingcompilations) in the last five years, the Kittens have really

been able to keep their fans happy with new material at a fairly impressive clip. This newest EP, the nightdhgerahm, has the trio re-

turning to the straight up hard core and harder beats. I was also real. grindingsoundsofold(asopposed ’ impressed with the Def Squad 2 to the last album which had a bum because Redman, Erick St rockabilly flare to it). One of the mon, and Keith Murray alwz mainstays of Sonic Unyon, these sound good together. Flipmr, Manitoban metal maniacs have and Terror Squad are shit and tf once again delivered. just jumped on the bandwagc The six track teaser features but Def Squad has been doing five hard core rock tunes including tracks together since EPMD. “fright night,” “sex boat,” “pentLike always, Redman has J house,” and one (shall we say) difclassic Method Man track on thp ferent track that complements the album, “Well All Rite Cha.” Erick album well. If you’re a fan you Sermon and Keith Murray appear won’t be disappointed. If, howon “Down South Funk” but then ever, you are not a fan, one of their Busta Rhymes comes in on “1 I more tamer albums like Buzo~Ru Goodness.” I’m sick of hearin: andt2k Has&r might be more up Busta’s annoying lyrics and Dr your alley. Jam should have left his ass 00” the album. There’s the hit single “I’ll Bee Dat” but there are some far better songson the album. Reggie does a lot of nice solo jobs like ULet Da Monkey Out,” “Jersey Break,” and “Da yo, n “Boodah by Michael Prevedtt Da DaHHH.” Be sure to check sped& to /mpn’ht out “Brick City Mashin” as well. There are also all the funny Redman is one artist that you chicken-head skits that make chti can’t get enough of in ‘98. The album flow smoother. much-anticipated fourth album has dropped and it’s more than I’d expected. With all the singles and appearances Redman has made this year, you’d expect his solo attempt to be hurtin’ but it’s an LP you have to check out. Do& da Nameis an albumwith sweet Sermon beats and hardly any guests. Redman is able to hold his own like he’s always been able to do on his previous albums. This attempt was similar to 1996’s &i&+y Watm with more energy

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The facultv of retro the contribtitions made by Class of ‘99, consisting of Layne Staley, Tom Morello, Stephen Perkins, Martyn Le Noble, and Matt Serletic. Class of ‘99 successfully delivers both parts of .Pink Floyd’s classic byTonyMohr *‘Another Brick‘in the Wall.” Staley’s voice is perfect for the mellow, drug-like feel of “Part 2” and Morello’s guitar contributions “Better than most, but still a soundadd new life to the song by adding more punch and energy than was in the original. track.” That’s how you could label the soundNot surprisingly, there is a hint of Rage track to the movie 7% Facu/@, written by Against The Machine, as “Part 2” draws to Kevin Williamson (S~#~HZ, Xaow What You a close. Did Last Summer) and directed by Robert Rodriguez (DRcperado,.From Dusk Ti,‘lDmfi). There are other cover songs on the Rarely do you find a soundtrack that has topsoundtrack, each interestinginitsown right. notch music on it, and there is a reason for Shawn Mullins does a cover of David that. Why would a band put a great song on Bowie’s “Changes,” Creed tries out Alice a soundtrack and leave it off their own alCooper’s “‘I’m Eighteen,” and Soul Asybum?Salesoftheband’salbumwouldsuffer. lum, believe it or not, attempts Alice CoopThe F&&J soundtrack has tracks by such big er’s classic “School’s Out.” Of the remaining tracks, the Radiohead-esque song, acts as Oasis (“Stay Young”), Sheryl Crow (“Resuscitation”), Garbage (“Medication”), “Maybe Someday,” by Flick is a solid track and The Offspring (“The Kids Aren’t Aland “It’s Over Now,” by Neve is a good right”), but each of the respective tracks little pop number. The key selling point for the soundfeatures said artists in a “B-side” mode. Oasis’ tune is nowhere near as good as say ’ tqck is probably Class of ‘99’s excellent “Supersonic” or *‘Don’t Look Back In Ancover of “Another Brick in the Wall,” but if you’re interested in having fun listening to ger.” Likewise, Sheryl Crow’scontribution lacks any punch in comparison to “AChange new takes of old classics, or you just want to Would Do You Good” or *‘My Favorice hear one of your favorite acts doing someMistake,” thing a bit different, then TkcFaMI& soundThe real highlight of the soundtrack is track should satisfy you.

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So it’s back to the good old times for this simply put, very interesting group. New Edition is made up of Ronnie DeVoe, the infamous Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ralph Tresvant and lastly, Johnny Gill. The perplexing thing about this group is that there seems to be so much to say, but when you think about it, so little to be truly remembered for. Now, there goes my head on a platter. Don’t get me wrong, they had some good times; they were young, enthusiastic, alive, new to the music industry, they were raw, malleable. They. were inexperienced and, like many others, willing to do anything to make it big. There is a price to pay, after all, that’s life. The best way to review this CD was to examine the lives of New Edition’s members and also accompanying that evaluation, with the “quality,” if any on fhis CD, Lost in Luve. There is little to be said for Ronnie, and maybe that’s a good thing, at least nothing that I know of. I’ll skip on Bobby for now, lest I make this a review of Bobby Brown. Moving to Ricky, same as Ronnie, little to be said, Ralph and Johnny are still struggling to keep their faces in our faces, just so that we might not forget them. On a whole I feel sorry for the group. They could have been so much. Now to my opinion of one of the many reasons why they are having a hard time making it back as a tea’m: Bobby Brown. I’ll

though he left the band, the stench of his bad boy image is not helping. Oh, they were so pure in their boyish voices. They were the dreams of teen girls at that time. Though they were too young to understand most of what they sang, they were sincere in their winting to uriderstand it. The first song is very simple. With words like “would you love me when I’m in doubt, would you love me just to be around,” you get my drift. I really wish they had continued the way they started. They had what seemed like forever to offer to their fans, they wanted to last, they wanted to be there for their fans all the way. I guess some dreams get sacrificed by the way. On the whole, I’ll stick with this particular CD. It was quiet, innocently dreamy and overwhelming. I love how they wanted to make every woman feel special. They were humble about their ignorance with regards to matters of the heart. You fell in love and you fell bad, and masking how you felt was not an option. You wanted her to know, you were polite when you talked to your friends about her. She would truly have blushed, bur. for the right reasons. I don’t know why they started sing. ing, maybe to be able to fend for life responsibilities. I feel they did nor quite learn all the lessons before they went from “Boys II Men.” Okay, I must confess, I am still head over heels in love, not just with the band, but with some of their songs. One of tiy favorites is “Can you stand the rain.” The message: sure anyone can be there, but who will be there when it counts? Remember “Candy Girl?” It was the same intensity of wanting to be wanted, really wanted. There were songs led by individual members of the group, such as Ralph’s “Do what I gotta do,” Bobby’s “Girlfriend, ” “Roni” and “Rock with you tonight.” This was a group that

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was Whitney thinking? Why did she decide to go for the bad boy of this age? I feel he is, and continues to be, her only flaw, Obviously, I love Whitney. Anyway, back to Bobby, well, I won’t bother to recount exactly what he has done, or more appropriately, what he has not done. Suffice to say,

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La Diva Belladonna believe.” Relax and read: “1 believe that for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. And I believe that somewhere in the darkness night, a candle glows. I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way. Said I believe. . .” Patti does not just have moving words to say, by T&s Tawose she is a singer. She can sing the most unimImpntntstM aginable notes, hold the longest notes. She can work wonders with her voice. She is Get this, this was her recent livecontalented, and she has harnessed herfeelingcert in New York. You don’t understand, giving voice to the max, but there is no max there are Divas, and then there is Patti. She for her. Just when you think it’s over, she is amazing. I almost lost all bearings when I laid eyes on her CD. Greater, was my surthrows something else your way. Patti is human and not plastic, I have seen her sing prise when I found out that it was a double on stage and lose a nail or earring. She is CD set. There are twenty-two songs on the undeterred in her ambition to have fun. She CD.Iwon’treviewthemall butjustgiveyou a general feeling of what it felt like to be me is playful and she keeps on giving. The listening to her “do her thing.” It was an crowd will never be able to keep up. She says absolute privilege, and I thank God for behi to everyone one, from those on the baling the one that gets to review and keep her cony to a little girl. CD. Patti is an adviser and motherly without been smothering. Patticommandsa lot of respect, in who Truly, age ain’t nothshe is, both on and off ing but a number. She stage. The great thing is proud and someabout her is that she is thing wonderful+ She not snobbish. If you gives tribute to the original singers of her have ever had the opremakes, such as portunity of listening to her sing, you would Celine and Dionne realize that she is exWarwick. Sure one could say that she has tremely inclusive. been in the business She introduces the crowd to her band but . long enough to know not as a band. She theinsandoutsofwhat C Nlr,HT n~ly sells. Sure you could uses their names, announces what they say that, butyouwould piay, and then lee them show ic Patti talks. ~ be mightily deceived. You can’t fake gratitude. How come she is so positively differto the crowd, she is the only of many Divas who effectively does it. She calls people ent? That’s a question only she can answer? from the stage and invites them to join her She sings songs in such a way that even the in a consensual celebration. I love that about prideful, leave, with tear-glistening eyes, her. Patti then is Patti now, She has the same Looking at Patti, you can see her joy, attitude and energy. Watch out here comes feel her pain and tell who she is+ Patti’s the tornado that is Patti, she sweeps everything up with her voice attitude is “Here I am, unbarred.” Not that she doesn’t care, actually it is that she cares. Patti is real, she shares herself with the She cares enough, first to be real with herself, crowd, she shares about the things that are and present heiself to the crowd. She is deep and personal. For example in “Patti vulnerable. That was what her songs were Talk” she relates how she lost her three sisters, father and mother to cancer. She about. Some of the songs were remakes of shares her regret of not been there. She calls popular songs such as “I believe I can fly,” us to tell those we care about that we care. “Somewhere over the rainbow,” “Don’t make me over;” and on goes the list. She makes the most of every opportunity, and uses her time and talent well, I was moved by her first song, “I

Way back in the early nineties this Quebecois duo had a hit with the song “Refuse to Die” and the album Food Ft& Although most of you may not remember 1their 15 minutes of fame, Dan Gerogesco and Richard d’Anjou do and they would truly love to rekindle the rhagic that saw them in regular rotation on Muchmusic. This newest album however, probably won’t do it. That’s not to say that this album is ter-

rible, it just isn’t so great that people will be willing to give these guys a second chance, The first track, “Follow Me (to the Other Side)” is by far ‘the best song on the album with its Lenny Kravitz-esque guitars and vocals. The record dips off after that into relatively bland pop-rock and slow ballads that aren’t terrible, but aren’t all that exciting either. The slide guitar and vocals on “All I Want” really don’t get along and there are other moments when the song writing(especiallylyritally) wavers to the point of sounding like a bad high school band. Ail in all, an effort

note with not many tunes of note. “Follow Me. . .” is a good song and so was “Refuse to Die,” it’s too bad these guys can’t pull off more than one good cut per album.

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All Fatuities: Athletic Council Student Athlete Award open to members of a varsity team in Year 2 or above; based on leadership. and financial need. Deadline: Feb. 151 99. Do r88n year Regular or 38 Co-op female students in an Honours program in which women arecurrently under repr8sented. Deadline: April 30/99. Campi& Recreation Bursary - based on financial need and involvement in the Campus Recreation program. Deadline: Feb. lV99. E Local 793 Award - available to Union employees, their spouses, children or grandchildren for extra-curricular/community invotvment. Deadline: Jan. 29I99. bat&l Scholars t-oundation Awards Program - available to full - or part-time students bas8d on academic merit, personal motivation, employment, extracurricular activities and letters of recommendation. Deadline; Jan 22199. Ron tdyt Travel Award - open 10 studenb who plan to participate in an approved exchange program; based on leadership, campus involvement and financial need. Deadlin8: Jan. 29I99. bon Hayes Award - avaUabl8 to all based on extracurricular involvement. Deadtine: Feb. 15/Q& 8ds-WaterlooStudent txchang P gram Award - students to contacteJoE Medley, Mechanical Engineering. bon McCme Basketball Award -open to students who are members of or are involved in the UW men’svarsity basketball squad; based on leadership contribution to the team or the Athletic Department and on financial need. Deadline: Feb. 15/99. hike Maser Memonal Award - avarIable to all 3rd or 4th year based on extracurricular involvement. Deadline: Feb. 15/ 99. Queen Elizabeth Sliver Jubilee Awards Program for Study in second official Language - available to 2nd or 3rd year students who would like an opportunity to study at another Canadian university in French; must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and in first undergraduate program. Deadline: Jan. 27/ 99. ‘Undergraduate Bursary Program - the Student Awards Offii administers a large number of undergraduate bursaries and awards based on financial need and possibly on other factors such as marks, extracurricular activities, etc. Deadline: March l/99. b of W Staff Association Award - available to full- or part-time undergraduates in a degree program. Applicants must be current staff Association memb8rs, their spouses, children, grandchildren‘ or dependents, and will be based on academics, extracurricular involvement and financial need. Deadline: Jan. 29/ 99. UW Swimmrng Legacy Award - open to students in Year 2 or above who are members of the UW men’s or women’s varsity swimming team; based on leadership contribution to the team or the Athletic Department and on financial need. Deadline: Feb. 15/99. Douglas T. Wright Award - available to full-time students who have participated in a UW international WORK placement who demonstrated leadership qualities through extracurricular activities during the foreign experience. Students must have distinguished themsetves during this work placement by achieving an ‘outstanding” evaluation. Deadline: Feb. 1999. Facub of Applied Heatth Sciences:

Mark Forster Memorial Scholarship available to 3rd or 4th year Kinesiology. Deadline: Feb. 15/99. Michael Geliner Memorial Scholarship available to all 3rd year Regular Health Studies and Kinesiology. Deadline: March 31199. 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 31/99. RAWCO Award - available to 2nd, 3rd or 4th year Recreation students. Deadline: Jan. 29/99. faculty of Arts: WC tiuthwesttwn Ontarto is sponsoring an undergrad scholarship for 2nd4th year Arts or Science students with a 75% average. First prize is $1,000, second prize is $500, and both include an STC membership. For scholarship requiraments and an application, see www.stc.waterloo.on.ca. Deadline is Februarv 15.1999. Arts Student Union Award - available to all Arts students. Deadline: Feb. 26/99. Robin K. BanksIPacloli Award - available to 1B Accountancy Studies based on marks and extracurricular involvem8nt. Deadline: March 31199. ‘Eoncordla Club Award - aval ‘lab19 to 3rd year GSLL students. Deadline: Jan. 29/

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or 2nd year GSLL students. Deadline: end of Winter term. James C. McKegn8y Memorial Award available to upper-year Arts students with outstanding performance an&r extracurriilar activities in the Hispanic Area - one in Peninsular Spanish Studies and one in Spanish America Studies. Deadline: Feb. 26/99. UW-Manulife Community&World Senrice Award - available to students who have completed a work-term in the SBTVice of oth8=, locally, nationally or abroad who received little or no ter&neration. Interested students should contact Arts Special Programs, HH. Westcast Jndustnes Continuous Learning Award - available to Accduntancy Studies for financial need. Deadline: March l/99. Faculty ot tngineering: Anderson Consulting Award - available to 36 Engineering. Deadline: March 31/ 99. Andy (Andreas) Baumgaertner Memorial Bursary - available 3A or above Systems Design for financial need. Deadline: March l/99. John Bergsma Award in Engineering available to all based on financial ne8d, minimum 75% average and leadership/ extracurricular invotvement. JR Bickell Foundation Bursaries - available to all Chemical students. Deadline: March l/99. Canadian Posture and Seating Centre Scholarship - available to all. Deadline: Oct. 15/99. Keith Carr Memorial Award - available to 3AIB or 4A Chemical. Deadline: June 30/99. Conestoga Heavy Construction Award available to 3A Civit based on financial need and a minimum of 75%. Deadline: January 29/99. Consulting Engineers of Ontario Scholarship - iimikible to all 36. Deadline: March 31/99. Co-operators Group Ltd. Award - available to 3A Environmental Engineering based on marks and extracurricular involvement. Deadline: May 31/99. John Deere Limited Scholarship - availabb to all 38 Mechanical with an interest in manufacturing &/or product desigh.

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Electrohome 75th Anpiverary Scholarship - available to 3B Computer Science. Deadline: March 31/99. Friar Luca Pacloll Award - available to .I6 Accountancy Studies based on marks and extracurricular involvement. Deadline: March 31199. S hell Recruitment Scholarship - availabl8 to 3A, 3B,, or 4A Computer Science or Business Administration students who have or will be applying for a Co-op position with Shell. Deadline: March 15/99. \Nescast Industries Continuous Learning Award available to Accountancystudies for financial need. Deadline: March l/99. Faculty of Science J.P. Bickell Foundation Bursar&-avail-

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l!ZDmR-IN-CHIEF Tuesday, January 12,1999 ‘Resume/Writing” -Techniques for writing an effective resume. NH 1020, 10:30-l 1:30. “Letter Writing’ - Learn to use letters to your advantage in the job search. NH1020, 11:30-1230. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,1999 Attention 19W99 Graduating Students - Co-operative Education and Career Services staff invites you to a Job Information and Feedback Session at 3:30-4:30 p.m. at Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall. Topics are Employment Interviews for Winter term, Results from 3ob Appl’ation Survey, Employer Information Sessions, and Job Fair 1999. *Career Research Package: Self Assessment + Occupational Research + Information Interviews + Career Decision Makfng’ - After this session, you will be in a better position to assess yourself and your ‘fii’ into the workI of I, wqrk. -Ntj .I?iJ, g-*3:30 .

An opportunity to gain valuable work experience to enhance your resume/portfolio. IMPRINT, the UW Student newspaper is looking for a fulltime, one year contract, salaried employee for the school year commencing March I/ 1999 to March 31, 2000. As Editor-In-Chief you would be responsible for organizing volunteer staff, overseeing all production/layout for alt sections of the paper and be familiar with IBM compatible cornpute&desktop publishing. \f you enjoy sI chal\enging

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HopeSpring is pleased to announce their 3rd Annual HopeSpring Celebrate and Educate dinner raised $35,000 for the cancer support centre. For more info about HopeSpring contact Betty at 43 Alien Street, W., Waterloo. 742-4673. Ebytown Food Co-operative: organic, locally grown, minimally packaged food for people, not for profit. Affordable prices! 280 Phillip Street, Building A4, Waterloo Co-operative Residence. Call 886-6806 for weekly StOr8 hours. Guided Self Changeof akohoi use: for indiviiualswhomayhav8cnc8msabout the-amount they are drinking and want to cut down. Call Counselling Sewic8s (ext. 2655) to find out more. Waterloo-Germany Exchange - open to all students. Receive tJW credits language fluency - International experience - intercultural skills! Deadline is March 15, 199’9. For more info contact secretary in Modem Languages, Rm313 or the Director at 885-1211 or http:// ext. 2260 watarts.uwaterioo.caI-mboehrin/ Exchange/mannheim.html. St Paul’s United College has rooms available for the Winter ‘99 and Spring ‘99 terms. Please call 885-l 460 or drop by for an application and a tour! DistInguished Teacher Awards-To nominate your outstanding professor, lab demonstrator, or teaching assistant for the Distinguished Teacher Award, contact TRACE, MC 4055, Ext 3132. Deadline: Friday, February 5/99. Exchanges to France or Germany for 1999-2000: awards of $1200 to undergraduates and graduates. Deadline January 8, 1999. Forms available from Maria Lange, IPO, Needles Hall, Room 3015. Fail 1998 grade reports will be mailed (all faculties, all programs) the week of January 18, 1999. Winter 1999 Registration deadline is January 29. This is the last official day to register for Winter cours8s. Students attending classes who have not registered by January 29 will not be permitted to write examinations or receive credit for these courses. Nominations are requested for the following undergraduate student seat on the University Senate. ( At least five (5) nominators are required.) One (1) fulltime Faculty of Applied Health Sciences undergraduate student to t : elected by the full-time Faculty of Applied Health Sciences students, term May 1, 1999 to April 30, 200. Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, University Secretariat, Needles Hall, Room 3060, not later than 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, January1 9, 1999. A by-election will follow if necessary in conjunction with the annual elections (February 9 and IO, 1999) conducted by the Federation of Students. Nomination forms are available from the University Secretariat or from the Federation of Srudents Office, Student Life Centre. K-W Chamber Music Society presents Amadeus, featuring Moshe Hammer, violin; Doug McNabney, viola; Dennis Brett, cello - Saturday, January 9 at 8 p.m.. Maria Luzardo-Noel, saxophone; Martha Fornella, piano - Wednesday, January 13 at 8 p.m. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young Street West, Waterloo.

MONDAY, JANUARY 11,1999 Big Sisters is having an Information night from 4 to 5 p.m. and the training program has been scheduled for January 25 and 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. Big Sisters H&se, 37 Alien Street, W., Waterloo. For more info call 743-2647. .

Call for info: 666-l 673. The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour presents Nameless Waters. University of Waterloo Art Gallery January 14 - February 21,1999. Informal Opening Reception: January 14, at 4 p.m.+ For more info, call (519) 8884567 x3575 or x6923. Musicians Wanted for February 5th Turnkey Coffee House. Sign up at the Turnkey Desk in the SLC. St. Paul’s United College has parking available for the Winter 1999 term. For information please CalI 685-l 460 or drop by the Business Office to see us. TOEFL Preparation Course - the Test of English asa Foreign Language cours8 (TOEFL) begins January 19 and ends 23. Classes are held every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4:30 p.m. This 10 week course is designed to prepare people for writing the TOEFL exam. The course fee is $50 and the book is $35. Register at the International Student Office, MH 2080 or call ext. 2814 for more d&ails. AspeciaiTHANKYOU to ail of you who have returned lost wallets, watcards, bank cards, etc. to the Turnkey Desk. Thankyou to all who have participated in making the Turnkey Desk a useful place for all students to come to. We are open 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day. A special thankyou to John Swan who has been a great help to the Tumkev Desk! Nominations are requested for the following undergraduate seats on the University Senate. At least five (5) nominators are required in each case. One (I) full-time Faculty of Engineering undergraduate student to be elected by th8 full-time Faculty of Engineering stuclents, term May 1, 1999 to April 30, 2001. One (1) full-time Faculty of Mathematics undergraduate student to be elected by the fuli-time Faculty of Mathematics students, term May 1, 1999 to April 30,200l. On8 (1) full-time at-large undergraduate student to be eleded by the full-time UW undergraduate students. Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, University Secretariat, Needles Hall, Room 3060, no later than 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 19, 1999. Elections will coincide with the annual Federation of Students’ elections (February 9 and 10, 1999). Nomination forms will be available on Janaury 4, 1999 from the University Secretariat or from the Federation of Students’ Office. Student Life Centre, Designing Learning Activities with interactive Multimedia -IS301 A (W99) A new independent Studies project course sponsored by the office of Teaching Resources and Continuing Education (TRACE). Students in the course will develop an understanding or the following areas of knowledge: the processes at work in medlated learning activities; tne potential and limitations of interactive multimedta instruction: the steps of the development process for instructional multimedra, including recommended milestones, reviews, and risks; the components of an effective design for learner-centred software. For more information, please contact Instructor Kevin Harrigan, PhD - x6832, kevinh 0 uwaterloo.ca

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,199s Attention 1998/99 Graduating Students - Co-operative Education and Career Services staff invites you to a Job tnformation and Feedback Session at 3:30-4:30 p.m. at Humanities Theaire, l-lagey H& Topics are Employment intetiews for Winter term, Results from Job Application Survey, Employer information SessiaJls, Job Fair.1999. ,I I r,

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people without transportation to appointments in Elmira, Kiichener, and Waterloo. 80th of these positions offer an excellent opportunity to get to know your community. Please call for details. Exceptional Receptionist #OO7-2531 is needed at Big Sisters of K-W and Area. A mature volunteer is preferred for this position that involves answering the telephone, greeting walk-in clients, assisting full-time staff when required, and performing general reception duties. As Reception Volunteer, you would need the ability to deal with &casional crisis situations and ensure that ail calls were transferred properly. If you have four extra hours per week, please call. Join anew and exciting programme #017 Providing Alternative Choices, a programme of Community Justice initiatives needs caring, community volunteers. Female volunteers who are at least 30 years of age, will work with other volunteers and federally sentenced women to create a circle which supports the woman as she re-enter the community. This position requires women who are innovative, positive thinkers, good listeners, have good judgement, and excellent people skills. Volunteers with a belief in the human spirit who are interested in being part of the development of this programme should call for all the details. The Crohns and Colitis Foundation od\f Canada #86-2476 WaterlooWellington Chapter is in need of many volunteers withvarious strengths and skills. There’s something for everyone! Call to find out more. Bia Brothers Please! #OO6-27 Do you have a few hours a week to share some laughter and fun with a boy from a father-absent home? There are many ways you can become involved: couples can spend time with a young boy; male volunteers are needed to provide one-to-one friendship; positions are also available with a recreation programme for small groups of boys. Volunteers must be 19 years of age or older to work with boys who are aged 6-14. Training and on-going support are provided. Counselling Centre Reception #039-779 Your pleasant telephone manner, people skills, and ability to respect confidentiality are qualities needed by a. local counselling centre. One or two mornings a we&k of your time to answer the telephone and help with clerical duties will be greatly appreciated. VOLUNTEER & MAKE A LIFELONG DIFFERENCE - Visit a child in their school setting to build self-esteem and confidence. Call FRIENDS Service of CMHA 744-7645 ext. 317 - visit wwwcmhawrb.on.ca

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MONDAYS English Language LaWclass is from 2:30-3:20 p.m. in Modern Languages 113, September to June The class has an emphasis on pronunciation and listening exercises. Students, faculty, staff and spouses are welcome to attend. For more information contact the Intemational Studeni Office, text. 2814. FRIDAYS English Conversation Class meets from 2-4 p m 1t-1NH 2050 September CL June. Students, faculty, staff and spouses are invited :J attend. -0. more info cai ext. 2814 internatron31 .Wdent Offce SATURDAYS Farmer’s Market Bus schedule. The bus will pickup and return at 9: 15, IO: 15, and 11:30 a-m Tickets $2.00 Ask at the Turnkey Desk, SLC lor more info.

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