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WPIRG to stay on fee statement Students must continue to go to WPIRG to receive $4.75 refund by Kerry

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motion that could have crippled a 26year-o was brought before Students Council last defeated. A group of students, represented sented a motion for consideration that, if passed, would fee from the student fee statement. The motion stated that “Whereas students are no longer permitted to strike the WPIRG fee from their fee statement; whereas the process for the refund of any assessment charged on the student fee statement discourages students from obtaining their refund; whereas WPIRG does not retiresent the views and opinions of the student population;be it resolved that the followingquestion be put

Ild organization on campus Sunday, January 10 and by Jason McAughey, prehave removed the WPIRG

to the University of Water100 undergraduates during the Federation of Students Executive Election: do you wish tosee theWPIRG fee removed from your student fee statement?” The first section refers to the fact that students can no longer simply cross out the WPIRG fee and not pay the fee with their tuition, Students must now go to the WPIRGoffrce in the Student Life

Centre to receive their $4.75 back. Imprintspoke to McAughey earlier in the week concerning the motion. He stressed that he does not have a personal vendetta against WPIRG, but questions whether their fee should be on the fee statement. After noticing he could no longer strike the WPIRG fee from his statement, he began

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Suggestions on howstudentswill payfor Feds’businTwo plans to help fund repairs, renovations and necessary expenditures

t sometimes seems that the financial pressures on students are constantly on the rise. Tuition rises every year, jobs become increasingly hard to find, and student debt is mushrooming. Beleaguered as they are by these pressures, students will doubtlessly look at the current proposals put up for referenda by the Federation of Students. One is to charge a one time fee of $4.25 per student, per term for the summer, fall and winter of 1999 - 2000, This is in order to pay for much needed repairs and renovations for the Bombshelter. The other is to raise the FederadonofStudents fee by$Z.OO, which will be used to establish a capital improvements fund to provide a pool of funds for necessary expenditures to maintain the quality of Fed businesses.

While students might askwhy the ever-popular Bombshelrer needs funds for renovation, Fed VP Financial Keenin Loomis points to a gradual drop in Bombshelter business over the last few years from $129,902 in 1995 to $59,322 in 1998. T h e Bombshelter is plagued by such difficulties as leaky pipes, shorted-out pop machines and a defunct fridge. A net loss of chairs due to breakage, and wear and tear is also hurting the bar’s ambience. It is Loomis’ plan to *‘nip this problem in the bud now before it becomes a crisis.” Using the funds made available, new

equipment will be purchased to replace ailing material and grungy ceiling tiles and for a new paint job to improve the bar’s decor, According to Loomis, “The focus is

penses have been listed, and the planned expenditures have been predetermined at $123,567.62. Similarly, the capital fund will be used to maintain Fed businesses at a constant level, rather

service. Few privately owned bars maintain the same hours the Bomber does, for example, while the Used Book Store exists primarily to help students. He counters suggestions that the fee is too high by pointing out that our student union fees are among the lowest in Canada, far behind such institutions as Western, which charges $145. Indeed, speaking of the rise in fees Loomis adds, “No one reflects this more than I do, more than we do. But the proponents feel it is necessary.” Fed businesses, such as the Bomber, are, in Loomis’ view, an investment made by the whole student community - money made by the Bomber can be diverted elswhere, for example. In his view, this is a capitai infusion being voted upon by shareholders. How will UW students respond? That remains to be seen.

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making the Fed Hall and Used Bookstore computer systerns Year 2000 compliant. StudentsmayaskwhytheFed businesses are not self sufficient. Loomis answers that the goal of Fed business is based less around profit potential than upon student

not to perform major surgery on the Bomber, but just give it a few nips and tucks.” Loomis puts a great deal of emphasis upon the fact that this is to be no nebulous fund - all ex-

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limit of 300 pounds. Usually they have an inch-thick layer of concrete, reinforced with wire mesh, and coated with wax. The participants will be judged on design, presentation, creativity (you’ve got to have lots of that), technical reports and race performance. Representing UW will be one team from the fourth year engineering students called the Kami-

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ow would one go about building a concrete toboggan? Most of us would not even be able to envision concrete sliding down snow, much less design and build something made of it that does. The challenges posed by such a task is what 500 civil engineers will be tackling in the upcoming 25th anniversaryoftheGreat Northern Concre te Toboggan Race of 1999. Grouped in teams of six, each team will design, construct, and race their own toboggan kaze Ice Dragons, along with three -with a running surface made of to four alumni teams. Last year’s concrete. The job doesn’t end champion at Calgary was UW’sown there -they will also be responsialumni team, Snow Fear. The ble for designing an appropriate chancesofwinningagain this year braking system. As well, these ones should be pretty good. have to br crated and lifted up to Inspired by the Concrete Cathe slopes with a forklift. This is noe Race held in the U&ted States, certainly not your standard run-ofthe Alberta branch of the Amerithe-mill toboggan. can Concrete Institute (ACI) disDesigning a toboggan can be cussed sponsoring a similar event, a’ challenge since one has to acWhat first started in 1975 with only commodate five team members, four schools participating now while staying within the weight ~ boasts 31 teams from 23 schools.

Chairing the organisational committee for the event are Carrie Junker and MarkPopik, both fourth year civil engineering students at UW. “ThegoaloftheGreatNorthern Concrete Toboggan Race is to showcase the innovative spirit of engineering students, to bring schools togetherforaweekofcompetition and most of all, for everyone to have a blast!” says Junker. The competitions will be drawing together students

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Alaska, Colorado, and Maryland on February 3. The Student Life Centre will be hosting the technical exposition on Friday, Feb 5 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. All the toboggans will be displayed at that time. The race will take place on Saturday February 6 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the River Valley Golfand Country Club located one hour west ofWaterloo, in St. Mary’s, Ontario. If you want more information, visit the GNCTR ‘99 website at Aftp:~~~w.eng,uwQterloo.cQ~groupl

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speakingtootherstudentsoncampus whoalso felt thatWPIRGdidn’t represent their views and feelings. He cited the weekly column i rdmprint as a disagreeable point. He wishes to stress that “they [WPIRG] have a right to be on campus, but if they are on the fee statement they should provide benefit to or represent the whole student population.” VeronicaChau, StudentCouncillor, challenged attendees at the Council meeting “to find one organization whose policies represent thevies and interestsofevery single student.” Ryan Kennedy, a member of the WPIRG Board of Directors, is “frustrated” by the motion. “The athletic fee is mandatory and no one would claim that that fee represents everyone. I pay that fee to supportvarsity athletics because I recognize the intrinsic value of those activities. That’s what a healthyuniversityneeds-diversity and an understanding for the value of diversity.” He also. refutes McAughey’s claim that WPIRG provides no services for students, citing the bike repair program as well as financial and organizational support

Eveythhgywwwantedtu~aboutstudent~. photo by Niels Jensen for various groups on campus as examples of WPIRG’s function to the stu’dent population. Christian Provenzano, Federation of Students Presidenthad has a very this to say: “WPIRG important role on campus - I’d

like to cIear up this issue by making refunds easier to get right across the board.” WPIRG directors and volunteers expressed interest in speaking to concerned students about WPIRC’s role and function,

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As announced by- the registrar’s office, fall term mark reports will be available next week. Part-time students, and students who were on campus in the fall term but are now away will receive their reports in the mail the week of January 18. Marks for full-time engineering students who are-doing terms 1A and 1 B, or 4A and 4B, consecutively in the

Nominations are still open for Federation of Student executive positions, until 4:30 p.m. today, Friday, January 15. A new term begins in May 1999 for the next President, and Vice Presidents Education, Administration and Finance, Internal, and Student Issues. For more information, hurry

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5peckd to imprint Global Community Centre Receives Youth Grant Global Community Centre of Waterloo Region has received a $150,000 grant from Youth Service Canada to hire 15 youth. The youth, aged H-30, will work on Global CommunityCentre’s Community Economic Literacy Project. Each will be trained in the Centre’s Economi~sforP~op/e! sessions so they can train others in economic literacy throughout their six month work placemenr

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citizens have all expressed concerns about the highway. “‘We are of the opinion that this mega-project has mega-impacts for the socio-economic and ecological health of our communities,” says Micheal Parkinson, a WPIRG spokesperson. “Despite concerns raised by the public, the MT0 is fixated with the idea of constructing an excessway.” The MT0 has not hosted a public meeting about the highway in oirer four years and recently declined to present at a public meeting hosted by WPIRG in December 1998. The environmental assessment done on the project is still

On Wednesday, January 20, a free public meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Regional Council Chambers (150 Frederick Street, Kitchener). The meeting will address the proposed construction of a new expressway north of highway 7 bktween lKitchener and Guelph. The expressway is being proposed by the MinistryofTransportation of Ontario (MTO) and will cost a projected $90,000,000. If the highway is -built, _I.it will runover wetlands, the tirand Kiver, forests, and prime agricultural land. Government agencies, conservation authorities, municipalities, interest groups, businesses, and

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UW cleans up at Physics Conference

The University of Waterloo shonerecentlyattieCanadianUndergraduate Physics Conference at Queen’s University in Kingston. Adam Deslauriers and Lincoln Veldhuis shared first place in the Major Poster award, and Jennifer Hunter won the Minor Talk award for her oral presentation.

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dropped for a 50 percent refund. The UW Bookstore textbook returndeadline is January 16, after which proof of dropped courses will be required. Books must be accompanied by a receipt, and be in mint condition. The registration deadline for the Winter 1499 term is January 29. Anyone not registered by this date will not be allowed to write exams, or be granted credits.

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The Left Collective is a new awareness-raising group at UW, an assemblyof student activists, The firstitemontheCollective’semerging agenda is the lack of space, privacy, security and convenience available to campus clubs. The group will petition the SLC Management Board to ameliorate the meeting conditions of clubs. Anyone interested in helping or desiring more information should attend a meeting on Tuesday, January 19, at 530 p.m., inSLC 2133, or contact Desiree Taric (cdtaric@science4.uwaterloo.ca) or Davin Charney (dcharney@ fes.uwaterloo.ca).

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A UW student accounting team placed first in the Grant Thornton Chartered Accountant Case Competitions. Lisa Ligori and Michelle Lam, with coach Prof. Efrim Boritz beat York, Windsor and Wilfrid Laurier for the title.

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Protest Against Youth Harassment at Kitchener Bus Terminal The K-W Youth Collective will be protesting against discrimination, ageism, and the oppression of youth at the Ki tchener Bus Terminal on January 21, at 4:00 pm, The protest is in response to an incident where a security guard accusedtwoyoungpeopleofsmoking marijuana in the bus terminal. The two individuals were frisked, had their photos taken, and were banned from the terminal for three months even though no illegal drugs were found. Liz Zinger, a member of K-W Youth Collective said, “We have . . . . a* to stop Ignormg and acceptmg discrimination against youth.” K-N Youth Collective will be serving free food and distributing literature at the protest.

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Creating a ‘hew SAC by Tracy /mprlnt5tM

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n Wednesday afternoon, almost 50 students met in the Student Life Centre to discuss the future of Students Advising Co-op (SAC). Recently, students have been questioning SAC’s value and have been calling for either a complete overhaulofthe current organization or scraping SAC in favour of a new co-op student society. P a u 1 Schreiber and - . s 1 m 0 n Woodside are currentlyco-chairsofSACand both are advocating change. They believe that SAC as it stands now has very little power and no real influence with co-op and especially not with students. “We can’t have SAC perceived as the PR department for co-op,” says Schreiber. He contends that in the past SAC has been little more than a lackey for the

bureaucracy that is co-op. Case in point: the letters to SAC are routinely run by co-op to ensure that they adhere to co-op policy. The new group would like to make SAC less political and more accountable to student interests. The new co-chairs presented

thusiasm. One thing that did contern many students was the idea of raising the student society fee in order to pay for new services. Schrei ber insisted that money was not the main issue. “We don’t need money,” he said. “We need people.” He went on to explain that right now what is important is getting support from students.

They believe that SAC as it stands now has very little power and no real influence with co-OD and emeciallv not with studhnts. a list of changes that they would liketoseeimplementedovernext term which included: creating a co-op handbook for frrst year students; revamping the SAC web page; increased representation with co-op; publicizing the group more efficiently; and to advice coop. Most of thechanges proposed at the meeting were met with en-

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Task force recommends tuition changes by Ryan Chen-Wlng /mpn’ntstdF

he report of the Provost’s Task Force onTuition and Student FinancialSupport reached completion last month and will be reviewed by senate at its meeting next Monday. Chaired by Gary Wallcr, Associate Provost Academic and Student Affairs, the task force was struck last May to make recommendations on tuition policy and student aid. This task force was meant to address uncertainty surrounding recent issues of deregulation, differentiation and rising tuition. The 15 member committee was comprised of people from administration, faculty and students from the university community. Students representation was ensured by Christian Provenzano, Feds President; Robin Stewart, Feds VP-Education; Peter Wood, Graduate Students Association President; and Lucy Sportza, ES graduate student. “It’s unfortunate the task force couldn’t come toan agreement on some of the larger issues and provide more leadership to the university community,” said Robin Stewart, referring to the lack of

consensus in some areas of the the most flexibility butpassesonto gested percentage caps on increases in tuition for a given acareport. He also expressed his view students a lot of uncertainty. The second option would set demic year. Limits would be set on that, ‘*the reportwill provide a jumphow much tuition could increase ing off point for discussion at the the tuition level for a given class senate board and elsewhere on and that class would pay the same in three different ways. Maintetuition level throughout its pronance increases would account for campus.” gram. Only the freshman class ,inflation and governmentcuts. DisThe task force was mandated cretionary into address issues creases would and provide guidance in five “Ifs unfoeunate the task f;‘;P;tsaunpd_ areas: the setting of a tuition policy; differenforce co&j& come to an ZtYaZg~ZZZ tiation, the setential increases 1 ting of different tuition levels according to program; proOption fbur gramsofstudent aid; the commusuggests the set-. 0 nication of student aid and arunive&y community”. said ~~~~t~~~ eas that require on specified asfurther considsumptions efation. Regarding about things tuition policy, a such as govemnumberofoptions were reviewed. would bear incremental costs as ment funding levels or inflation. The first option is current practice the upper year classes’ tuition The second of the five areas reviewed was the issue of differenwhere tuition for the coming acawould already have been set. This tiation, the assessment of signifidemic year is set in the winter, is provides the most certainty to stuthe same for each year of the prodent while causing numerous plancantly higher tui tion to certain program and is constrained only by ningcomplications for the univergrams and not others, Concerns government regulation. This is the sity. about differentiation were disThe third possibility sugcussed as well as four factors which option that affords the university

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area, A number of statements were presented which support the principle that access to education should not be denied for financial reasons. As a part of establishing sufficient financial aid programs the task force recognized the importance of informing students of these programs; this was the fourth area of the report. The task force rec-

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might be considered in applying differential fees. These four factors are cost of the program, competition for admission into theprogram, projected future earnings and demand for graduates of the program. Any discussion of tuition requires discussion of student finan-

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Omyended project teams theto forming further explore Of two this issue, one for undergraduate and one for graduate. The final area, further research and study, is open ended and was not fully explored. A number of issues were raised but by no means represented a comprehensive list of concerns and issues regarding this topic. This report does begin to answer some of the questions about the future of tuition at UW but further discussion has yet to occur.

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My CASA; your CASA issues affecting

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document that all UW students played a role in through the Federation of Students, The Second Declaof Real Solutions, was approved by

Council on Sunday,January 10,1999, According to Mark Schaan, National Affairs Commissioner for . the Feds, “Student Council’s endorsement of Real Solutions shows both UW’s and CASA’s commitment to students in areas of accessibility, equality and mobility and shows our ability to design the future of Canadian education.” University of Waterloo undergraduate students are represented by the Federation ofStudents(Feds) both internally and externally. Our external involvement is focused through two lobbying groups, one provincial and one federal. The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is an alliante of 18 universities from across the country. CASA is mandated to:. represent students at the Federal and interprovincial levels on issues pertaining to post-secondary education; provide a forum for public debate on

post-secondary education in Canada; work towards achieving the highest levels of quality and accessibility throughout the Canadian post-secondary education system; encourage and facilitate inter-campus communications by acting as a repository of statistics and other data concerning post-secondary institutions and pursue activities that promote relationships and

resources.. .We can no longer afford the short sighted petty posturing that is frequent in talks of federal and provincialjurisdiction,” said Hoops Harrison, CASANational Director, in a letter included with the document. CASA also focused on the good of the MillenniumScholarship bylobbyingforstu-

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discuss how students and the government could cooperate to effectively benefit Canadian students. Four representatives of the Federation ofstudents attended the conference: Andre Cousineau; MarkShaan; Robin Stewart and Awey Peters. Ministers involved included, Paul Martin Minister of Finance and Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of

“A call for the provinces and federal governmen’t to combine their collective strengths and resources,” said Hoops Harrison.

standards of cooperation within and among its member associations Real Solutions: 11 has been grouped into five key proposal areas: CASA’s Pan Canadian Agreement; The Canadian Millennium Scholarships; fiscal issues; Canadian Student Loan Program recommendations and student employment concerns. CASA’s proposed Pan-Canadian Agreement is the second stage in the implementation of national standards for post-secondary education. Simply, it is a “call for the provinces and federal government to combine their collective strengths and

Through continued lobbying they facilitated an increased represenYhZZ’“;atat~te bFiZral budget was successful for CASA and continued focus on the issues

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improvement on future budgets. A section of the report is dedicated to students involved in bankruptcy and legislation regarding student credit worthiness was discussed in this same section.

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embership of the University of British Columbia Alma Mater Society (UBC AMS) in the Canadian Alliance ofStudent Associations (CASA) is being questioned in a referendum. This is not a big surprise, according to Robin Stewart, Feds VP Education. He noted that there is, *‘a division in the student movement across What was surprising was the type of propaganda provided by the “No” campaign. Stewart found it curious that the chief returning officer had allowed them to pub-

lish “blatantly false information,” although he clarified he wasn’t completely familiar with UBC’s referendum policy. Ryan Marshall, Co-ordinator External Affairs UBCAlmaMater Society, mentioned that it was students in the International Socialists and NDP Clubs on campus leading the “No” campaign. “There is a small group of students’ claiming CASAis ineffectual,” says Marshall, “What they want to do is protest. We’d rather work with the government. That’s what the Federal Liberal government listens to.” UBC Alma M;lter Society represents 32,000 students including 26,000 undergrad students and 8,000 graduate students.

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After theottawa Lobby Conference the finished document was read at the National Stakeholder Working Session on Student Financial Assistance. The two day conference in December 1998, brought together all of the organizations involved in the financial aid system including the lenders, ministers and corporations.

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Finally regarding youth and student employment, informed and realistic suggestions were made to the government and corporations. The document was developed out of theOttawaLobbyConference thatwas held last November. Both CASA and govern-

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the wreck of the Titanic. The lecture, entitled “Titanic: In a New Light,” is part of the Canada Trust/Walter BeanVisiting Professorship in the Environment which was establi~shed at UW in 1992. The lecture will centre around MacInnis’ book of the same name which focuses on the Titanic and its discovery on September 1,I985. Not only is MacXnnis an underwater researcher and author, but he is also a motivational speaker and national chair of Canada Trust’s Friends of the Environment Foundation. For those interested there

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What-is it that Fedsdo? by Paul Schrelber hpfintstaf

e Federation of Students provides you with the Turnkey Desk, Imprint and CompuScape. If you’re lookingratherconfused, youshould be. The Feds aren’t responsible for any of those services. Meredith Owen, the Feds’ Vice President, Student Issues, recently completed her focus group report on Feds Services, and the

topics. The focus groups attempted to determine the mandate of each of the Feds’ services and assess their strengths and weaknesses. They examined the opportunities that existed f6r each service and threats that each faced. The participants’ input ranged from the mundane to the inflammatory. One respondent described the Womyn’s Cenue as a “lesbian, militant feminazi hangout.” (Others felt thatits mandate was to help oppressed

PALS receives a significant number of crank .phone calls, or “sex calls.” results may surprise you. Chief among theVP’s recommendations are increasing awareness of the services provided and consistency in office hours and leadership, Owens believes that the Feds should run a publicity campaign to counteract the negative image many students have of the services. Perhaps the most significant change suggested by the focus groups was the elimination of Peer Assistance Links (PALS). PALS, the Feds’ telephone support hotline, costs the Feds about $1,000 per year, and is extremely underutilized. In addition, PALS receives a significant number of crank phone calls, or “sex calls.” Callers attempt to involve the PALS staffers in lewd discussions of masturbation and other sexual

women). Another focus group participant felt that the high visibility of Gays and Lesbians of Waterloo (GLOW) may disturb homophobit people. Reaction to BACCHUS, an organizationfhat promotes responsible drinking, was also less than positive. One student noted that people make fun of ii, and do not want or care about the information it provides. Students are unlikely to use the Feds’ Food Bank, as they are either unaware of the criteria needed to qualify or are too embarrassed to ask for help. Ifyou’re interested in further information on the Feds’ services or want a copy of the report itself, drop by the Feds’ office in the Student Life Centre during regular business hours.

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Fire alarm destroys Bombshelter line by Rob S&nick

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ike any Wednesday night, students were packed into the Bombertid Imprinters were hard at work puttingout this week’s issue. Unlike any Wednesday night all this diligent work was interrupted by a fire alarm. Admittedly, the fire alarm was not familiar to students and some confusion was noted among them, with hardly any students leaving thestudent Life Centre, One student was noted saying, “Well, the fire doors closed, it must be a fir? . alarm.” The reaction, or lack thereof, of the staff at the Bowber was observed bv one student, Lori

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Macdonald holds the title: he died in office at age 76 in June 1891.

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Canada’s largest phone company is poised to sell its operator-assistance service to Excel1 Global Services of Tempe, Arizona. The union representing two 2,400 operators involved has accused Bell of trying to avoid a pay-equity ruling that would require paying female employees an additional $60 million a year. Bell blames the decision on declining use of the service.

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Banker killed in Bramptan robbery The Canadian Banker’s Association is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the so-called “Van Bandits” in the ShootingofToronto Dominion teller Nancy Kidd. The mother of ewe was the first bank employee to die in a robbery in 18 years.

Trade war brewing with U.S. The United States has threatened to block certain Canadian imports including lumber, steel, and textiles ifOttawa does not change Bill C-55; The bill proposes to ban Canadian advertising in split-run publications-foreign magazines published here but containinglittle Canadian content. Steel producers are concerned about the threats: under free trade, exports to the U.S. total about $3 billion annually.

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. ast fall, in my column here, I mentioned a court case that had cropped up in the United States. A groupofconservativestudentsinWisconsin took their student government to court to force them to stop funding the campus gay rights organization. Their rationale: the organization did not represent their beliefs, so they did not want their money being used to fund it. Now we’re seeing the same thing happening here. For those ofyou not yet aware (and if you’re not, you haven’t read this newspaper very closely - there is one news article and three other opinion pieces devoted to the topic), a group of students has asked the Federation of Students to hold a referendum on removing the refunda ble WPI RG fee from the UW tuition statement. The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) collects $4&75 from every student each term (I won’t go into what WPIRG does, it is described adequately elsewhere in this paper). You can get that money back simply by going to the WPIRG office. The argument against WPIRG goes like this: WPIRG is not a special organization that serves all students, but rather, in essence, simply a large club that serves only a few. Ifwe accept that line of argument, we must also then reexamine funding of a whole bunch ofother things. What about Imprint? We collect funds on the tuition statement in the same way that WPIRG does. I am frequently told that we do not represent the views of the entire student body (nor would I ever claim that we do or could). WPIRG’s opponentscite other PIRG goups as examples to prove that the group could continue without the fee revenue. [‘m sure you could find examples of other student newspapers that operate totally 3n ad revenues. What about all the other things we pay money for? The athletics fee, which can’t be refunded, only goes to varsity athletics. What percentage of the students, who must pay thq fee, are varsity athletes? Personally, I’m of the opinion that WPI RG is more than a club, it is a service organization. The vat un teer members provide services to UW students and to the community at large. Mind you, you could say the same thing about the Womyn’s Centre. It would be fair to ask: Why then doesn’t the Womyn’s Centrc, also collect a fee? The fact is, once we start looking at the fees issue, and just who benefits from them, we can start trashing things udubsur&m. I would be willing to concede that some of the points against WPIRG might be valid. However, this curent debate is nothing more than so much hot air. This whole exercise is just an excuse, a shallow iustification for a few people whose real agenda is to suppress an organization that puts forward views which differ from their 3wn. Rumour even has it that this is a province-wide campaign by conservative elements against all PIRG groups. I personally don’t agree with many things that WPIRG advocates, but I do think they do a great deal of good work. Perhaps WPIRG’s critics can explain their position to the people in hurricane-torn South America who received hampers from the organization. I’m sure they’d understand.

Deconstructing the apocalypse

what will you be doing on the night of December 31, 1999? I for one intend to drink myself into a coma. This will not, as you might think, be an attempt to drop out of reality’as civilization comes crashing down around me. Rather, it will be my way of ignoring the numerically illiterate who still think Zoo0 is the&@zingof the New Millenium, never mind all the crazies who believe all those zeros will mean the end of the world - even if they ha& to bring it about themselves one person a,l a time. MeanwhiIe, covering the impending doom of YZK isti thingto do. Everyone is doing it and most reporters believe the culprit will be made of silicon rather than fire and brimstone. Computer literacy is not even a requirement for discussing the matter. The formula is simple: mention ‘the year 2000, mumble somehing about how computers that use two-digit years permeate our lives, and wrap it up with a tale of microwaves and VCRs rising up at the stroke of midnight to kill their human masters as they sleep. Hype equals ratings, after all, Unfortunately, hype can also lead to paranoia and I have yet to see any news report actually make constructive suggestions about preparing for possible millennial hiccups. There must have been at least one, however, that suggested stocking up on gold in preparation for a global financial collapse; it is an idea that many supposedly intelligent people have bought into. To all these people I have one simple 0

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may make the world go ‘round, but if implodes as you think it will, all the gold world will not help you in the dead of if you cannot find food or heat. What you think your neighbour will be interested in trading him canned soup and firewood for your shiny yellow metal anyway? What we need here is a dose of reality! To begin with, when

was the last time you pro-

grammed a date into your microwave? Chances are your phone doesn’t even know what time it is; and while your VCR has a clock, if it’s like mine, it has been blinking 12:OO since the last power failure. Hardly mission critical devices. To be sure, no one can predict with 100 per cent certainty what will happen to the computers of power companies such as Ontario Hydra ar midnight on the thirty-first. Nor is there any guarantee that the banks will rtot destroy your life’s savings (not that they ever needed the year 2000 as an excuse). To its credit, Ontario Hydra has not been resting on its laurels. The public utility started its ye’ar 2000 certification program back in 1996; currently it involves over 600 people and a budget of $125 million. As of December 1, 1998, 80 per cent of the critical systems at Hydro’s generating companies were certified as compliant, including 100 per cent of the nuclear safety systems. Similarly, the Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto Dominion, CIBC, Royal, and the Bank of Montreal combined have budgeted over $750 million and thousands of people to tackling the problem. All banks were scheduled tocomplete certification of their internal systems by the end of 1998 with integration and street-level testing reaching completion in July of 1999. Of course the only test that maiters for all

these systems will be their survival and continued error-free operation into the year 2000. No doubt many non-critical systems remain to be fixed, but if the ice storm that hit Quebec and eastern Ontario just over a year ago is any indication, people and civilization C&Rsurvive even in the most extreme conditions. So the next time the evening news decides to devote

some time to computers,

the year

2000, and the apocalypse, just remember: this is the same media that dubbed the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton “the Trial of the Century” barely three years after it bestowed the same title on the murder trial of 0. J. Simpson.

Half empty or half full? To th? Eiiiitur,

us,) advance of the human population of this planet in all its respects.

rice again, I find myself butting heads with the Imprint’s editor inchief, Kieran Green. Dear Mr. Green, you may as well give me a column for the amount of rebuttals it seems I’ll have for you. The latest nerve pincher was in this year’s first print in Mr. Green’s column “Cognitive Dissidents.” Perhaps 1’11 call my column “Cognitive Anti-dissidents.” In his article, Mr. Green re-’ fers to a link between the new European currency and “consumerized X-mas,” and his opinion that these directly relate to money and not “love or the human spirit that brings us all together.” He also referred to the unpredictability of weather and how chat indicates that “we really don’t have a clue how this world works.” To this last I have to ask, how much did we know about this world works 100 years ago, or even 20 years ago? Pessimists have a lot of material to work with these days and all the past days throughout history for that matter since the world appears to be in a major state of disarray. Just read a paper or watch the news. . But I don’t condemn them as being destructively negative. Why, because it allows the optimists of the world to come out and counter the negative energy coming from these people, bypresenting and displaying how there are trends, global in nature, thatindicate an advance in hutian evolution: biologically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Biologically is the easy one, we’re not knuckle-walkers anymore (although I sometimes wonder about certain individuals). Mentally, the human race continues to develop methods of developing thought and learning. Development and improvement of societies allows for more humans than ever to fulfill their goals. We’ve also shown a trend of dismissal of religions and a search for a deeper truth, one that I believe every single human being shares, with the many variances being merely superficial and semantic in nature. I believe we all seek, in some form or another to be one with a greater whole. None of this is as simple as I’ve stated it here, obviously, and perhaps that’s my point. If we look too closely,

we’11 find a nearly

endless supply of good and bad things about everything. Let US then look at things holistically. So pessimists, come forth, I invite you to a round table so that I and other optimists may convince you of the very real and positive, albeit slow (according to a

Turnkeys: more than just lending you Cosmo-

would just like to say thanks to the Imprint for publishing the short, but sweet, article about the Turnkey Desk in last week’s issue. As a Turnkey, you have to take a lot of crap from a lot of people. Many patrons come to the desk with a problem that we are expected to solve. Some are crying, some are swinging fism, others are bleeding or just plain difficult: to deal with, These sorts of patrons are definitely in the minority, but there is another type of patron that is in the minority as well. These are the few patrons who consistently help out the Turnkeys when&er possible. It may be ehe Bomber patrons that actually move the furniture back to its proper place when the lineup is long, or it might be the ever faithful John Swan, who would get us a Toronto Star from Needles Hall if ours wasn’t delivered. These unsung heroes really make a Turnkey’s day. I’d just like to say thanks, on behalf of all the Turnkey’s, to those who lend a helping hand, not because they have to, but because they can.

Apologia aphagia

did not occur to you: anyone who has decided to reject reason will not see the unreasonability of this decision as a cause to change their mind. Furthermore, you attempt to use reason to derive conclusions about what would happen if one rejected reason. You state that “if there is no truth, . . then EP can’t be true,” which may be so, but it is also irrelevant. If rhere is no truth then nothing is true, so the fact that a statement is ndi true does not give us any particular cause to dismiss it.

Arts glad to contribute

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rice again I am obliged to ,respond to an in-goodfun “shot” taken at Arts students in Imprint (this time in the cartoon “Off the Ma&“) and to once again bring ironic enlightenment to the table. The cartoon jokes that the contribution from Arts students to a planned campus-encasing dome would be “filling the dome with hot air!” It’s a clever punchline, but ironically it also reveals a truth that is testimony to the vital role Arts student play in society. While other kinds of students

“If I had $90,000,000...”

he Ontario Ministry of write with regard to Hendrik Transportation (MTO) is van der Breggen’s column, planning to build a new Apologia, which appeared in expressway between Kitchener the last issue of Imprint. He and Guelph. The expressway is to invited readers to “set him be a new four-lane, controlled acstraight” about the implications cess expressway designed for of the dismissal of reason as a lZOkm/hr (the posted speed will cultural bias by what he calls exbe 1OOkrn/hr). The MT0 says there treme postmodernism, and is unacceptable traffic congestion though this letter is not intended along the existing highway 7 and to do that, it is a response to his this causes a safety issue, therefore claims about postmodern philoso. a new expressway is warranted. The idea for this expressway was PhY. First, it is necessary to distinfirst conceived around 1970 when guish between reason, which is a transportation officials were advo,. system for deriving truths from eating the immediate construction other truths, and reasons, which of a new highway 7. are causes. To do this, I will use The expressway is to be built about one km north of the existing the word reason as the system, and refrain from using reason in highway 7, and will have extreme effects on the natural environment. the other sense. The area along the route contains Reason is indeed a cultural prime agricultural land, provincreation, and our culture certainly has a strong bias towards it. Take cially significant wetlands and your column for example. You wetland complexes, woodlots, streams and the Grand River. The were attempting to argue that it is Mayor of Guelph has voiced conunreasonable to reject reason. cerns about the negative impact of Perhaps the absurdity of this

would design, test, study, and supply beer for the proposed dome, Arts students, by filling it with hot air, would contribute something that no amount of science, math or suds could ever accomplish: they would make the dome livable!

The rest of us just want somewhere to go drink

nregards to the article printed last week about the new events programmer at Fed Hall I have this to say: what a joke (not the article, but the job). It must be nice to have a work term job where you can pimp your own musical tastes to the masses. Just in case John hasn’t noticed, not everyone on campus is “dying for hip-hop, R&B, and house.” And since it is the students who are paying for Fed Hall, it would be nice if the musical selection there reflected the diverse tastes that are present on campus (I don’t think that alternating between R&B/hip-hop and house on Friday nights counts as being “diverse”). It just seems to me that the people who like to listen to ndnmainstream music are being

screwed over for on-campus entertainmen t. Look at the clubs on or near campus: The Bomber (“The Hip” are God palace), Louie’s (anorexic teenage meat factory), The Fox and Pheasant (moreofa pub), and the Grad House (who know what the hell goes on there). There’s not a wide selection for people who enjoy a different range of genres. Farther away from campus there’s Phil’s, which is a 20 minute walkaway, and Abstract, which you have to cab to. And now our last hope for someplace decent on campus seems to be falling apart as well. Don’t try to tell me that the Thursday “local talent” night is supposed to satisfy thealtemative crowd. How would you feel if Louie’s brought in 16 year olds scratching records, pd tried to pass it off as entertainment? By the way, who the fuck is Mark Perak anyway? If he’s such a “celebrated local talent” then why has nobody I’ve talked to ever heard of him? In closing, I think that a better way to do Friday nights would be to alternate between R&B/hiphop/house and something like industrial/alternative or alternative/ rock. Anything other than the current plan of “shit” alternating with “more shit.”

this expressway on the air quality locally (K-W has had so.me of the worst air quality days this ye+ in the entire province). The expressway is estimated by the engineering consultants to cost $90,000,000. Operating expenses are not included in this. estimate. The expressway will have a negative impact on the residents in the Wellington Street neighbourhood. It may displace many businesses operating along the Kitchener end of highway 7 (Victoria Street) since these business operators have said in a survey that they rely on drive-by traffic to sustain their businesses. Despite asking the MT0 to hear their concerns, the impacts on these two areas have not been addressed by the Ministry. Is spending $90,000,000 to

This will be the subject of a public meeting hosted by the Regional MunicipalityofWaterlooon Wednesday January 20, 1999 at 7 p.m. The public meeting has been convened by the Planing and Culture Committee and the Engineering Committee of The Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The committees will hear a presentation from officials at the Ministry of Transportation, a presentation from Regional staff, and delegations from the public. This meetingwill be an excellent opportunity to learn more and to voice and questions or concerns you may have about the project. The last public meeting hosted by the MT0 was over four years ago, in October, 1994. Most recently, MT0 officials declined to present at a public meeting hosted

save rush hour

by WPIRG

commuters

a cou-

ple of minutes in travel time a good use of taxpayers’ money? What would your priorities be if you-had $90,000,000 to spend on public projects in this Region? Would building this highway be your number one choice?

December,

1998.

There are no plans by the MT0 to host a formal public meeting before an imminent decision on the project is made by Ontario Environment Minister Norm Sterling. Please contact WPIRG for more information.

FORUM

,BJECTION:Tolerance is good - and intolerance is bad. By not acceptifig Moral Relativism, you’re promoting intolerance!! REPLY: Not. First, let’s get clear on Moral Relativism (hereafter MR). MR is the theory in eth-@s that whether-an action is right (or wrong) depends essentially on - is relative to - either an individual’s feelings (“if it feels right, it’s right for you”) or culture (“my culture says it’s right, so it’s righv’). To be sure, MR seems at first glanceto promote an attitude of tolerance between people who have different moral views: “You do your thing, and I’ll do mine.” MR, however, has some terribly serious problems - problems that tend to get ignored. Far example, defenders of MR usually ignore the fact that if MR is accepted, then individu& and/or societies that are blatantly intolerantof our moral views must be tolerated. On the one hand, if we accept the if-itfeels-right-it’s-right-for-you version ofMR, then we would have to tolerate the Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka rape-murders, Ted Bundy’s serial killings, pius Jeffrey Dalmer’s molestations and cannibalizations. After all: Paul’s, Karla’s, Ted’s, and Jeffrey’s actions undoubtedly felt rightfor

tkI?z. On the other

hand,

if we accept

my-culture-says-it’s-right-so-it’s-right version of MR, then we would have to tolerate murderous, genocidal regimes such as Hitler’s Germany, IdiAmin’s Uganda, and Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Moreover, we would have to tolerate cultural practices such as apartheid, suttee (the burning of a live w.idow on her husband’s funeral pyre), and clitoridectomy (the circumcising of a woman’s clitoris so she will not be distracted from her family duties). Not a pretty picture. On a more mundane level, defenders of MR also usually ignore the everyday fact that we are all (rightly) intolerant of at least some things. For examples: university students are intolerant of professors who give failing grades for excellent work; all educators are (or should be) intolerant of student ignorance and cheating on exams; car owners m intolerant of car theft; surgeons are intolerant of cancer; etc. Clearly, tolerance is not dimzys a gdod thing, and intolerance is not always a bad thing, Regent College professor John Stackhouse, Jr.: ‘So, we’re all intolerant of some things, and we’re all tolerant of others. The question is not ‘Tolerance or intolerance?’ It’s ‘Tolerance of what? To what end? . . . And for what reasons?“’ Rejecting Moral Relativism, then, is to take a first step toward promoting toler-

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15, 1999

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Public interest

he process of democracy is not about going to the polls every four years. It is not about a few angry students demanding a referendum about something they don’t happen to take part in. It is about daily participation in the political process and involvement in shxfiing every aspect of our society. There are a group of young politicians on campus who have recently proposed to hold a referendum asking that the small, easily refundable WPIRG fee of $4.75 be removed from the fee statement. Apparently their reasoning rests on the fact that the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group does not represent their-views. WPIRG has never claimed to represent everyone, but we have always made efforts to ensure that everyone’s opinions are heard and respected. WPIRG is not a special interest group; it is aprcblicinterest group. While not necessarily representing ee~ery student, it provides servicesaeruilabcle to m~q studepr& among them a resource library, a weekly column in the Imprint and a welcoming atmosphere for students to undertake

research

on issues

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Unlike any presented in their classes. other student group, WPIRG also provides services to those not on campus: recycled bicycles to under privileged children, relief to victims of disasters such as Hurricane Mitch, and food for people in severe Lpoverty. .1*-s- ww*ewm m-S-_ .__ -.-=-*c-w w.w.w I - v I ” I c _ n

Perhaps not everyone may choose to get involved in these activities, but your four dollars and seventy five cents provides a vehicle for others to carry on these public interest activities, . These few individuals are attempting to badger the concept of democracy as justification. In their presentation to student council, the small group presented four of WPIRG’s Imprint columns, which included two articles dealing with women’s health, one on systemic racism, and one involving the US/Iraq war. These articles were cited by the men as non-representative of theirpenonalviews, and therefore, to be of sufficient justification to initiate a costly and time-comsumingreferendum. We recognize that not everyone may feel that issues like racism, women’s health and international militarism are their priorities; this is why the $4.75 is refundable. However, if we were to hold a referendum questioning the WPIRG fee, it stands to reason we should also question a/Z iocidental fees. These men don’t want a referendum for all-fees, though. They obviously feel ideologically threatened by corn-. munity living, Amnesty International, recycling bicycles, feeding the poor, and all the other things WPIRG does. ’ If they choose to direct all their energy to dismantling the services WPIRG provides and the work we do, we must seriously question their motives and try to conceive of where they want to be in political society in 20 years. - - --- - - T.W... I t -. * __.. __“. ‘. _ I.- . m-s a h _ ..

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ast Sunday, concerned students submitted a motion at the Student Council meeting which would have forced a referendum on whether WPIRG should be allowed to continue assessing fees directly from the students of this university. This motion was prompted by the fact that we can no longer strike the WPIRG fee,from our tuition statements, as was the case in the past. This begs the question ofwhy WPIRG should enjoy the special funding relationship that it does vis a vis other campus clubs, which alsorepresent (arguably more accurately) the concerns and wishes of lJW students. The answer is, it shouldn’t. WPIRG is, at heart, a glorified club on,e which, like other clubs, narrowly represents the interests ofthose that choose to involve themselves. Unfortunately, this glorified club has been given the right to extract fees from the general student body, almost without recourse. When I say “almost without recourse,” I mean that although any student can get their money back, few students actually bother, often because

they

don’t

have

time;

don’t

know

that they can, or don’t know what WPIRG stands for and why they would want to. A less likely scenario is the one imagined by supporters of WPIRG - that students don’t come for their refund because they approve of what WPIRG stands for. Our fundamental principle is simple:

club? We right tions than their

believe that students should have the to choose what on-campus organizathey wish to supportfinancially, rather having their support presupposed on tuitionstatement. The argument that students can, if they wish, get their money back is not relevant in this debate. Rather, this fee should not have appeared on the tuition of statement in the first place. Supporters WPIRG assert that theirwork has enhanced the quality of life at the University of Waterloo. Perhaps. WPIRG will also argue that they can’t continue this work without our financial support. This is incorrect. The University of Toronto chapter of OPIRG has been able to thrive without the financial support of it’s undergraduate student body. Why can’t WPIRG? Every organization must justify its means and its methods. WPIRG must beno different. We askforyour support in bringing about a referendum in order to either reaffirm financial support for WPTRG or force them to operate in the same manner as all othercIubs, becausewhile WPIRG belongs on our campus, it has no place on our fee statement.

J,et it’snow, let it snow, let it snow A

s anyone who has had to venture outside in the past two weeks has noted, we’re surrounded by that gloious white stuff - snow. Trying to plow a path through the stuff can be quite a challenge, especially if you . lack the proper equipment. One brave Imprint staff member {who shall remain nameless) spent the past weekend attempting to clear out her driveway with a bucket. Needless to say, this is not the most efficient way to clear out a driveway. After valiantly struggling with the bucket fora while, her neighbours took pity on her and lent her a shovel. Of course, not everyone has to dig their way out of their driveways. A friend of mine returned from her Christmas vacation to discover that she would have to shovel her way into her parking spot. Now, removal of snow can be done quite creatively. Just ask the people in Toyama, Japan. Water in this Asiancity is shot up through the concrete via small sprinkler heads and washes the snow off the roads. These sprinkler heads run down the middle of every street, and are activated any time it snows. They also seem to be used for clearing parking lots and other paved areas. Now, I must admit this sounds great - no large snow banks, no ugly slush-but if the temperature drops below freezing, won’t the place be covered in ice? Now, there’s an old saying that an ounce of prevention

is worth a pound ofcure. There’s an American company that has created a line of mats that “utilize inherent heat to instantly melt away snow and ice.” You just place them over your path or driveway, plug them in, and voila! They melt the ice and snow! You can even get a version that works on your roof. And it’s a steal at only $39.95 per foot! And best of all, it’s endorsed by John Elway, the famous football player. Sounds good to me. . . Of course, snow does have its benefits. For the starving student, it can provide a free meal. Free food, you’re thinking? Here’s how. Create snow cones by collecting some freshly fallen clean snow in bowls. Just add a few spoonfuls of frozen juice concentrate on top, and you’ve got an instant dessert! Or, if you’re slightly more ambitious, you can make snow ice cream. Collect some freshly fallen clean snow, and put it in a bowl. Add some milk to make it slushy, as much sugar as you like, and a spoonful of vanilla extract or chocolate syrup or whatever you would like for flavoring. Of course, as everyone’s mother warned them, stay far away from yellow snow, and you might want to keep a variety of medication on hand to counteract the effects of the various pollutants in the snow. So, next time we get another snowstorm, you have two choices. You can grumble about it, and miserably remove the snow any way you can. Or you can rejoice and rapidly scoop it all into bowls, and pay off your student loans by creating your own brand of ice cream! It’s up to you.

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e meet interesting characters every day, yet we may not always realize it. Imprint Features has decided to do a biography (of sorts) on interesting students, staff or professors around campus. This week’s feature is Victor Iacobellis, a chef at Brubaker’s who is also the president of his own sa#q business. Victor has created his own barbecue sauces and has been in business with his brother selling them for the past ten or so years. Before startingwith UW’s Food Services, Victor owned and ran a private restaurant, Vittorios, where he developed and used his own barbecue sauces. Customers raved so much about the sauces, Victor decided to put them on the market, using the name of

commented after sampling the sauces, “It aJmost makes me want to eat meat! ” The Vittorios sauces have won countless awards in competitions throughout photo by Niels Jensen southern Ontario and the States. “I keep winning,“Victor beams, and so he should. There has not been a single competition where he has not placed in the top three. In a 1996 contest in Windsor, Victor walked away with eight of the twelve awards being offered. But it hasn’t been all fun and games. Victor recounted some of his “horror stories” from being on the road promoting his sauces. At.one event in Windsor, he was set up in a soccer field, where it rained the entire time. All the tents, trucks and cooks sunk, lkerally,

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to be towed out of the field. Rain seems to be a recurring problem for Victor. At another event in Detroit, it rained once again for most of his time there. Yet Victor still managed to sell six tonnes of ribs! “People just kept coming,” he remarks. Currently, Vittorios has out three sauces,

Honey Garlic, Zesty Red and Zesty Red “Hot,” and Victor is working on more for the summer, including a new breading mix for barbecued spare-ribs. Although he has to balance his time between Brubaker’s, where he will be celebrating his ten year anniversary in March, and his own business, Victor says, “It’s a good marriage.” The fall and winter keep him busy on campus, but in the summer he has a some more time to concentrate on his business. So, why Brubaker’s?Victordidown and run a private restaurant for ten years, but after the lease was given to a new Pizza Hut, he decided not to start another restaurant. He felt starting a new restaurant and workingthe

20-hour days necessary to get the restaurant off the ground would not afford him much time for his family. Victor is married with two children, a 16 year-old daughter and a 12 year-old son. And who does the cooking at home? Victor. The Vittorios family of sauces, which range from $4 to $5, can be found right here oncampusat chevarietyand Post, located in the SLC. Or, you can find the sauces offcampus at Zehrs on Beechwood or Vincenzo’s.

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Swing baby, swing! by Kathy Grant speural tu Imprint

nless you’ve been living in a cultural wasteland for the past few years, you’ll have noticed the return of swing and big band sound to the music scene. People everywhere are realizing its impact on their frame of mind and are dubbing it as the alternative to alternative. The long awaited return of swing couldn’t have come at a better time. At the end of the millennium, people are searching for a new optimism, a return to the classy vibe of swing music as an alternative to the depressing and foreboding sound of macabre '90s artists. Club-goers are now looking for something uplifting, something which allows them to alleviate stress and interact with others who understand the pure ioy of swing. This joy has been felt in evergrowing numbers here at UW. Last term, Tim Burns, an engineering student, decided he was interested in starting a club for people who wanted to learn swing dancing. As he explained to Trevor Smith Diggins at the K- WRmrd, &'Iwas

‘,.:.’ ,t..:::.: :,:.:..;I .,.:.,.. ..:.;., just looking for a dance partner, .:::::. people. For UW students, (he Swing &So:;jf/+! ‘:i:;;:! and then a few hundred people .,.,.... :~:-: .: :;‘.‘::.:..:i cia] Dance Club ~~~~~~~,~~: showed up.” (SSDC) is a great place ~‘~‘~,~:~~~ Imagine his surprise when :.,,._:+i people came out in droves, seekto meet new people, ~‘~:.i’,‘.~$~,; ___. :_,_ . _. .,.,.. ing the new craze they’d witlearn some steps, and r,~~:::;.‘i;lr:“~‘, i nessed in the media recently. listen to some catchy Swingbandshavecroppedupevemusic which forces r-y-where: Colin James at Lulu’s, your feet to move. The :.,.:.: :.:.:.: :‘:i:$j;; g;_., $yi:.:; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in the UW SSDC was estab~~:i,i:i~~,::,:~:Z~~ .*.-...._. _I_...... ._... ..>..._._.i. :.:.:...:;, ]ished during the fa]] of ~~~~~~~. movie Swingers and at the :$.::$:y’:.::~~:~~ : y... ..,.. .7: .::,.,., ......_._. .. .‘.“.:< .00.. ..::..‘.: ...C ..::., ,:,: upcoming Superbowl, and Brain 1998. The club memI::>> Setzer Swing Orchestra onBmmb ’ bership grew from one &%9021&4ndGapKhakis?‘Nuff enthusiastic president said. to an overwhelming But perhaps this movement is amount that surpassed more than just a trend. People of all 450 members, This ages are deciding that swing is more crowd learned all difthan just a dance. As Nicolas Hope ferent types of swing says, “Swing is much more than a that ranged from the badance, it’s a way of life. The music sic East Coast Swing to gets stuck in your mind and the the more energeutic danceisonyourheartandthewhole Jive, and even the scene isengraved in your soul. You Charleston! can fly.” This term’s execu?!! AL-- ‘ve got all the ITWWS. However, you don’t need to tives are even more uw s~~lWuu~rney know how to fly in order to follow enthusiastic about the the dance moves. You just need club. The club is exto be able to follow a few simple petted to pack Fed Hall every townSwingclubs.So,whynotcheck steps. And finding a partner is week. The club executives are outtheUWSSDC? Thefirstmeetpart of the fun, since the advanplanning on bringing in a few big ingis scheduled forTuesday, Janutage of swing is that you can learn bands and even planning a few ary 19, 1998 at Fed Hall. There so much by dancing with different trips to some of the local and out of will be lessons from 4:30 p.m. to 530 p.m. At 530 p.m., the DJ will play all types of Swing ranging from big band classics such as Glen Milter, Benny Goodman, Louis Prima, and Tommy Dorsey, to some of the more contemporary stuff that suggest such groups as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Colin James and Little Big Band, and .

photo by Janice Jim Brian Setzer Orchestra. Don’t forget to bring in the $10 member’s fee that will give you discounts on trips, events, and concerts. Most importantly, you don’t need to sign up with a partner. So bring all your friends. Swing is not a passing trend; in fact, judging from the interest it has created across North America, swing dancing is here to stay. As an add on to Duke Ellington’s phrase, “In the ‘9Os, it still don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!”

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Robin Chauhan ecently, UW psychology Professor Christine Purdon, who is interested in studying human sexuality, organized a team of students to study Sexual Dissatisfaction. This topic plagues all of us at some point, and yet is difficult to discuss openly. Last fall, preliminary data was collected from a hundred UW students who were sexually active. According to Purdon, one of the main factors that contribute to mass sexual dissatisfaction at Waterloo is “spectatoring,” otherwise known as performance anxiety. Instead of concentrating on the pleasurable aspects of a sexual encounter, people with performance anxiety tend toworry about their sexual capability at the expense of enjoyment. Purdon is asking why “no one has looked at why this happens, or what might be contributing to it.” She explains, “One possibilitry rhar my students are looking at has to do with body self-conscious as something that might help us predict spectatoring.” She suspects “it may be that if you feel your body has an unattractive quality you might be self-conscious about

that and start to feel that it is going to ‘turn off your partner.” “We know that lots of people are somewhat unsatisfied with their bodies, or some part of their bodies. Maybe this can actually inhibit their participation in sex.” Men tend to be self-conscious about size: penis, erection, and chkst. They also worry about performance, frequently asking their partner “How am I doing?” Women tend to worry about a larger range of body parts: the belly, breasts, butt, and body hair. All this selfconsciousness leads to a verycommon phenomenon: sex in the dark. Also, some people choose to avoid positions which display their perceived shortcomings (no pun intended). She says that a woman who is self-conscious of her thighs may find her partner “enjoying thighs that are soft and warm rather than hard aerobicized thighs, or they may be so excited with her breasts that they aren’t paying attention to her thighs.”

In short, we’d like to extend an adequate piece of advice out to those of you who may be feeling a little inadequate: nobody’s perfect, and regardless of how you perceive your body, everybody’s got the same capacity for pleasure.

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leave for Ireland next week. I’m going to miss a lot of things about Canada, but I think what I will miss most are rhe people. I will miss places and things only for not being able to be with those with whom I associate those places and things. So this week’s column is for my sister, who I will miss a lot, and her horses, I wonder how horses can manage to walk, trot, runaround that dirty ringwith no clothes on. Constantly being kicked by a little girl, having his head pulled this way and that. Sometimes he gets whipped, or cropped, as they say. Itiscoldinthisstable,andwhenIshiver, I make the same sound as the horse makes. My boots are frozen like hooves, but I don’t have the benefit ofrunningaround to warm up. I also don’t have a friend tocarry around on my back. I don’t know if I’d go over that jump either, if I were the horse. The big, lazy looking horse my sister is riding went around the jump instead of over it. Some of the horses go too fast, some go too slow. I think the horses are the ones in control: people don’t ride horses for sport, horses carry people for warmth. This place is full of animals: cats, sparrows, pigeons and oh yeah, horses. A black cat gives me a funny look as it streaks by. One of the little song birds perched up

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in the rafters, about three feet from my head, calls me. I look up and he tweets again, then zips away. The pigeons are pecking around in rhe dirty ring, getting in the way of the horses. I think they just do it to annoy them. One horse, Pixie I chink, the. smaller one, managed to defecate in mid-jump. That’s proof that they are in control. Lightened of her cargo, she executes a perfect double jump. Now it is my sister’s turn, with Bpb, the biggest horse. He does the jumps with case, once he learns how. Rex, the other horse, has a good start, but misses. The trainer says: “Ifyou had left him alone he would have been fine.” h/ly sister’s riding helmet looks like it has been splattered with colourful raindrops. They are actually diamond shapes, but as she rides, it becomes a blur. Charlotte rides over to me and Bob noses the side of the ring. “You should try riding,” she says. “Maybe they’ll have horses in Ireland,” I answer. I don’t think she heard me. “I’m going to make you ride. I made mom ride,” she says. The sparrows are snacking on Pixie’s handiwork. The riders are dismountingand the ride is over. The girls lead their horses out of the ring, back to their stalls to be groomed, fed snacks, and cooled down. Their excitement for the day is over.

by Keanin Loomis, Vice President, Adminstration & Finance specid to hnpti*nt

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s simply as possible, I want to explain to you why the Federation of Students will be asking for an increased contribution from you via referendum next month. The Federation ofstudents, Students’ Council has voted to ask for an increase of $2 to the Fed fee tocreate the Capital Improvements Fund and a one-year contribution of $4.25 per term for Bombshelter renovations. For one, Council has voted to endorse both ofthese increases, taking into account the Fed fee is currently at $24.50, and is the second lowest student union fee in the country* We have come to realize that our businesses operate to a certain extent as services, Other healthier student unions have created Capital Improvement Funds because they realized this a long time ago. We are not a cutthroat organization that seeks to maximize profit at the expense of r)r. This is because you, being the thecustc, customer,. re also the owner. You-own the Bomber, Fed Hall, the Variety & Post, the Used Bookstore, Scoops and Ground Zero.

Regardless of whether or not you frequent any of these businesses, you are a shareholder in them. When the businesses do well, the services and the political representation we offer are also strengthened, because we are able to bolster those activities financially. We are not a normal corporation and we can no longer continue acting as ifour businesses are able to pay their bills and plan for the future at the same time. Take a look at the Bomber in the daylight. Look up to the ceiling tile and down at the tables and chairs. Also know that the bartenders face numerous challenges each time they pour you a drink. To avoid the demise we witnessed of Fed Hall, we require a similar solution for the Bombshelter. And to avoid a similar referendum in the future for any of the other businesses, we require a raise in the Fed fee. As your VPAF, I can tell you that we don’t have the money to invest in the businesses right now, nor will we probably have it five years from now if things continue as they are. Part of my job is to help plan for a healthy future for your businesses. That’s why I asked council to consider putting these two questions to you in February. So on February 9 and 10, please make an informed choice about the future ofyour businesses.

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Hey Baby! What’s your sign? by Imprint

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A Honda CRV will nently in your asphalt-orientedexperiences this week. Neptune and Pluto make it difficult to predict a positive or negative outcome, but since Mother Nature is out to get you anyway (all this snow really is aimed at al1 you Capricorns), better play it safe. Buy extra insurante.’

“home-video” Internet! Time of whoop-ass.

you made on the to open a fresh can

got there, but only a 10 per cent chance you’ll rememberwhere the fuzzy blue handcuffs came from.

you only and fight

may begin to pull fire alarms, to have hidden doors open present you with food. Don’t it-just bewareof the metal

, ~~~~..I:i:l-i:~~~~~~~~~~ Ei!sl .1::z:;.:,::::A ::::.::.:.::::::x::::::::::::: ,:.>:... .,...‘;.:..,...,... ,$ ~i~;:~~~~~~~~ ...-...... .... .: c*.>.. ....:.::::_..,.. Been falling asleep in class 1 It’snotheprofessor,it’syou-and it’s not narcolepsy. Maybe you’ve noticed the way other people around you tend to fall asleep as well? Outside of class? Face it, you’re boring. Oh, and that warm fuzzy feeling in your chest isn’t love in the air -it’s just the asbestos in the ceiling tiles.

On the other hand, Mother Nature will positively adore you over the coming week! Despite the snow, your boots will always find purchase, your tires will always grip, and your tongue will absolutely not stick to that fence-post. So come on! Try it! Just once -you know you want to!

The fastest way to burn off the holiday poundage is by playing bumper tag on the Co1 umbia Road Straightaway during rush hour. Bonus points if the vehicle tagged has a “Jesus” fish on it. And no, your friends will not be impressed by your newly acquired copy of Prince’s 1499.

Hey! Yeah, you! Is that ex-significant-other making your life hell after dumping you over the holidays? Don’t get mad! We’re not talking about scrawling phone numbers on bathroom stalls here -we’re talkingaboutpostingthat

Mars, Venus, chocolate sauce, tequila, gin, and vermouth will conspire to have you wake up next to a member of your non-preferred sex in a non-preferred sleeping location. There is a 50 per cent chance you’ll remember how you

li!iBl Cancers are too prone to individuality. This makes serious threat to Microsoft’s monopoly. As such, an MS representative will offer to buy your soul this week. The money may be tempting, but be warned -you wilI be kept in a sky-blue room with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and forced to listen to endless repeats of “Start Me Up.”

laid this week, you will observe that if UW has 12, 000 students, then 1,000 of them will be getting lucky this week -about 14Oaday, six an hour, or one every ten minutes. You may feel jealous and/or lonely.

You will display (uncharacteristic) grace and sophistication when it comes to mowing through red-tape this week. Friends will be amazed, departmental secretaries will be stunned, and Needless Hell will be your oyster. But true to the balanced natureofyoursign,yournet karma must be zero and so next week will suck.

Now is not agood time to be fencehopping. The snow on the far side will be deeper than you think and face it, your judgement just isn’t that good! This is not to suggest that you go around the fence. Just scrape up all that Canadian Tire money you’ve got and buy some

Why mince words? You will get lucky this weekoften! Darticularly if you’re single. Enjoy! As for therestyou,nowyouknowwhyall your Scorpion friends are grinning like idiots. Unfortunately, only other Scorpios can match their stamina so unless you’re looking for embarrassment in the bedroom (or wherever), best keep to yourself.

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re you interested in buying a new computer? Are you, like most students, short on cash? Upon examining the local paper or canvassing local computer stores, you may notice that the cheapest systems are the ones with a Celeron processor. Many of you know that these systems are usually rip-offs. This article will attempt to explain why this may or may not be the case, and save you some money regardless. In order to explain the existence of the Celeron, a little background information is in order. Traditionally, Intel Corporation has had a virtual monopoly on the market for PC CPUs. Capitalizing on this dominance, Intel was able to set the price of newly introduced processors to whatever the market would bear. The huge profit margins that these tactics generated often in the range of 50 per cent allowed Intel to invest heavily in Research and Development to ensure that their superiority in the CPU market would remaine unchallenged. However, Intel has often had to compromise their emphasis on the most powerful and expensive processors. Often, Intel’s prices are more than the market can bear, and they have to supply low cost processors to maintain market share. The result of this thinking was the 386SX, a version of the 386 processor that,though 32-bit internally, used l&bit external pathways. While severely hamper+ performance, this allowed for the CPU to be installed on cheaper 16 bit motherboards. Another example of Intel’s tactics is that of the 486SX. Intel had delivered on their promises to software developers to integrate an FPU (Floating Point Unit) in their 486 processor. However, Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices 386DX/40 processor was putting tremendous pressure on Intel on the low end of the market. Intel responded by simply disabiingtheFIYJofaregular486,and selling the resulting486SX at bargain prices. It is humourous to note that the so-called overdrive processors that were used to upgrade from a 486SX were actually fully functional 4860X processors. When the overdrive processor was installed it simply disabled the SX chip and became the only CPU in the sys tern, These two examples of rntel’s attempt to take over the low-end

market ignore the problem that this created. Many retailers used the powerful branding of the 386DX and 486DX to sell the handicapped processors as their more powerful brethren. Many consumers that thought theywere buying a fully functional 386 or 486 would later learn that they had been gypped. Moving forward to 1998, the consumer market for PCs was heatingup,andAMDwasmakingmajor inroads into this market with its lowcost, high-performance K6 and K6-2 processors. With major boxmakers like IBh/I and Compaq selling systems equipped with these processors, AMD was capturing an unprecedented share of the sub TheCeletyprwessor $1500 PC market. Additionally, Intel’s traditional stronghold, the business sector, was starting to realise that they did not need the power (and more importantly, the cost) of a high-end Pentium II to run their productivi ty apps. In response to these pressures, Intel removed the high speed Level 2 cache from the Pentium II’s SECC (Single Edge Contact Cartridge). This cache, 51% in size and running at half the processor’s speed, was the most expensive part of the processor, and removing it allowed Intel to sell the resulting processor, dubbed Celeron, for prices very close to its K6-family competitors. Unfortunately, this lack of cache hamstrung the performance of the Celeron in productivity applications. Though it maintained the floating-point performance of the Pentium II, Celeron business app performance was comparable to that of a Pentium MMX. As a result of this performance problem, the computing press ostracised the new offering from Intel, and most consumers followed suite. This perception was worsened when unscrupulous computer stores advertised Celeron systems as Celeron Pentium IIs or Pentium II Celerons. The strategy was similar to those tactics of selling the 386SX and 486SX as the DX versions of those proces-

the Celeron dubbed the Celeron A The design of the newceleron harked back to that of the Pentium Pro, whose dual-cavity design provided for 256K or 512K of fullspeed L2 cache. This new Celeron A performed within 1 to 2 per cent of its Pentium II brethren, for despite the fact that the 128K of L2 cache was three times the size of its bigbrother’s,itwasrunningattwice the speed. At last, we can explore the myth of the Celeron, True, the performance of its original incarnation was hampered by a lack of LZ cache, butgiven good components it can run fast enough for all but the most power-hungry. The new Celeron ,A, though, is the real prize. Offering performphoto courtesy of http:/~www.tomshardware.com ante of a comparablyclocked range (primarily the K6-2) if they Pentium II, it is at least 25 per cent were bundled with comparable cheaper! That cost difference can allow you to buy more RAM or a components. Unfortunately, the better video card, and get even press and most retailers gave the Celeron a black eye with their rebetterperformance thanapentium porting and marketing, and as a II, result most people avoided buyBeware retailers who try to ing Celeron systems for fear of convince you otherwise. I have had more than one computer rebeing ripped off. tailer here in Waterloo try and conIntel, reacting to the backlash that the introduction oftheceleron vince me that a Celeron A is nocreated, went back to the drawing where close to the performance of board. Adding 128k of full-speed a Pentium II. Those individuals were talking about the original L&ache directly onto the processor die, they created a revision of Celeron, of course, and their igno-

sors. Worse, the perception of the Celeron as a bargain system carried over to the choice of components that box-makers would provide in Celeron systems. The cheap components that were chosen to be included in Celeron packages often resulted in low-end Pentium performance. While not being the greatest performers, Celerons were more than capable of matching the perfurmance of processors in its price

rance speaks volumes about how many retailers do not keep up to date with the latest technology. Do some research before you buy! However, I do have a few warnings if you are interested in a Celeron system: do not limit your upgradeoptions. With thisin mind, makesureanynewSlot-l (SECC) motherboard you buy is based on the BX-chipset. The FX, LX, and especially the EX chip sets will limit your ability to upgrade to PIi/ PI11 processors in the future. Also, avoid the new Socket 370Celerons and motherboards. While Socket 370 will provide for excellent performance that is virtually identical to Slot 1, future Intel upgrades such as the Pentium III will all have the SECC design, and you will be forced to buy a new motherboard if you want to upgrade. For thosewho like to overclock their processors, here comes the best part! Forget about past records of people overclocking CPUs 25 per cent over spec (my PZOOMMX did 250MHz (83x4) without any problems). In an Abit BH6 or BX6 motherboard (which allows you to tweak the voltage), 80 percent of Celeron 300As overclock successfully to 450, Mine runs at a nice 464 (103x4.5), this is more than 50 per cent over spec. Considering that a 300A is less than a third the cost of a true Pentium II 450, and performs almost identically for most apps, this is the bargain you’ve been waiting for! Though there is a current shortage of the Abit motherboards, I would highly recommend purchasing a Celeron 3OOA/Abi t combo as soon as you can. Intel intends to start clock-locking all their processors soon; this is a limited time offer!

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job discrimination among other problems, Iceland is considered to be special because of its largely blue blond eyed,

Microsoft overcharges customers Allegations have been made by consumer groups recently that Microsoft has been treating customers preferentially. Thecharges depend on the relationship between the companies. Dell and Compaq, long known to be MS stooges, are alleged to be receiving cheaper prices for MS software such as the Windows operating systems and Office applications. It is maintained that over ten billion dollars have been skimmed or scammed due to this practice and now might not be the best time for MS for news like this to surface. The company’s ongoing trial with the U.S. government has not seen smooth sailing. The evidence to support the allegations is pretty convincing. Between 1990 and 1996, MS increased the price they charged computer vendors by 16Opercent, while computer prices were dropping from an average of 3500 to 2000 dollars. From 1996-1998, software prices dropped an average of 2.8 percent, while MS increased their prices by 6.5 percent over those same years. What makes

this all seem even odder is that Microsoft’s return on sales vastly outperforms the industry, 35 per cent versus 6 per cent.

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If Keravision, an American company, has its way, nearsigh ted individuals will be turning to this method rather than laser surgery, The small rings are implanted in the cornea. They are crescent shaped, and are about as thick as a contact lens. They form a ring around the cornea’s edge. They are removable if side effects occur, which might alleviate some apprehension for consumers. FDA advisors have indicated that they believe the rings should be ap-

icelanders to sell rights to DNA

For the first time, a country has sold the rights to examine its DNA. Natives in Canada have already done this, but their population is not nearly as homogenous, nor do they constitute a country. The deal will land 200 million dollars for Iceland, which faces unemployment problems. With a popuiation of 277,000,that kind of money just might make a big difference. WhZSti!SpllWt!? While the majorphoto courtesy of proved* (I ity of the populahttp://hetltage.stsci.edu guess this isn’tlike tion is for the deal, not everyone agrees it is the Olestra.)The implants will be tarbest thing to do. Doctors and sciengeted at persons with 20140 to 201’ 200 vision. In a year-long study of tists in Iceland,and elsewhere warn about 200 people, it was found that that it will mean less privacy and

74 per cent could see 20/Z@ and 53 per cent could see 20/16, which combat pilots require. There are risks, however. Seven to 17 per cent of patients suffered side-effects such as gIare, h’alos and night vision problems. Five per cent of patients elected to have the implants removed. This corrected 80 per cent of problems. The operation takes about 15 minutes, the patient remains awake with local anesthesia,and the procedure will probably cost $2200 US per eye. Prices should be simiiar in Canada, and pricing is bound to be comparable to that of laser surgery.

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Rivers in the United States, and perhaps a11over the industrial world, may be awash in nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is thought to be worse than CFCs for the environment in terms of ozone destruction and global warming impact. Rivers in Denver have been measured as having some of the highest N,O readings in the world. It is thought that manyriverscould emit high levels of N,0-municipal waste water plants may be the cause.’

Lucent

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Blockbuster mergers have been headline news for some time now. This week, Lucent announced that it will buy Ascend for $20 billion in stock. Lucent is al-

Friday, January 15, 1999 ready the number one player in a $50 billion a year industry. The deal will make Lucent a major player in the data networking industry. The move is bound to scare Cisco Systems who has dominated that market for some time.

Mac PlayStation cloning software disturbs Sony Connec tix has plans to change the way some people enjoy PlayStation games. Using their software, Mac users will be able to use PlayStation CDs in their computers. donnectixclaims that they reverse engineered the software using the console. W hile Sony has not threatened to sue yet,. there have been rumours in the Japanese media to this end. The central issue for Sony would be that the games remain their intellectual property. Since Sony makes a majority of its revenue from game licensing, they may be able to spin some money out of this potential problem.

Vote for Hubble telescope Amateur astronomers and enthusiasts will be able to vote on one of three galaxies that they would like to see photographed by the Hubble telescope. The survey can be found at’ htrp:// ~err?#g@.sfsci.t~~lp5(~~~c~fQfmsl A@ug&m/ and features some photos and information.

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any parents complain that kids are growing up too fast these days and are taking on large amounts of responsibility at a very young age. But, there seems to be a conflict between what pediatricians and mass media have to say on when “it’s the right time for a child to learn how to go. ” “To go” meaning, yes, the messy, the disgusting: toilet training. Much to the delight of diaper manufacturers everywhere, the age of potty training is on the rise. Studies found that in 1957,92 per cent ofchildren were toilet trained by the age of 18 months. Current studies suggest that some 60 per cent of toddlers are not achieving this mastery until the age of four. On one side of the toilet training war, John Rosemond, syndicated columnist, believes that being four years old. and not potty . . . 1< I I tramed 1s “atrocious anti a srap to the intelligence of a human being that one would allow him to continue soiling and wetting himself past age two. ” After all, Rosemond believes that toilet training is not exactly rocket science. Rosemond even offers a new toiIet training method called “N+ked and $75,” designed to minimize the often difficult taskof train-

ing children the young age of 18 months. “You stay home from work with your child for a few days and you let the child walk around the house naked all day long.” The parent then continuously moves

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the potty so that it is always near the child whenever the urge should arise. Rosemond suggests that the $75 is for carpet cleaning. “Children at this age do not like the urine and feces running down their legs,” Rosemond said. “When they have an accident they

stop and start to howl, and the mother comes along and says, ‘Well you forgot to use the toilet.’ She puts him on the toilet, wipes him off and speaks reassuringly to him. And within three days, or five days, he’s doing it on his own.” On theother side, diaper manufacturers are less thanalarmed with these statistics. In fact, the largest size of Huggies diapers called PullUps (underwear shaped diapers for big kids) is a best seller, says Kimberly-Clark researcher Tom Kolb. Rather, what Pampers is doing is cashing in a potential health problem. Pediatricians say that they are seeing more kids today with toilet training problems. For example, “withholding of urine and stool, chronic constipation and wetting and soiIing by oIder children is becominga greater problem,” says Dr. Bruce Filmer. Young patients also seem to be experiencingproblems with daytime and nighttime urinary controls. The fact is that Pampers recognizes a treasure trove when it sees it. The company has begun to offer customers larger size diapers fortoddlersof38poundsor

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Warriors lance Windsor lead Warriors erase three goal lead on cross-checking major by john Swan /m@nt staff

t seems these days that hockey teams from the Waterloo region are in a constant struggle to keep up with the Windsors. The Kitchener Rangers (the region’s Ontario Hockey League squad) are fighting the Windsor Spitfires for the final playoff spot in the Western conference while our own University of Waterloo Warriors are battling University of Windsor for a spot in the playoffs. Therefore, the battle on January 8 against the visiting Lancers was integral in determining who would have the “upper hand” in the quest for the post-season. Inside the confines of Columbia Ice Fields, the Warriors began this epic battle looking quite lackadaisical. Fortunately for Waterloo, starting goaltender Joe Harris thwarted MacPherson’s effort. After the first shot was made, the Warriors decided to mount quite the offensive drive on Windsor’s goaltender Ryan Celinas, who frustrated Waterloo time and time again. The first goal of the game was netted by Lancer’s centre, Chris Gignac, six minutes and thirty seconds into the game. Gignac received a pas-s from Scott Hillman, made a shot at the post and totally fooled Joe Harris as the puck sailed into the upper right corner. After the first period, Windsor held a one goal lead as Waterloo could not get the puck past Gelinas. In the second period, Mike Johnson finally defeated Gelinas on a screen play. This

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goal by Johnson tied the game at one goal apiece. However, Waterloo would plunge into trouble when Rob Marie took an unnecessary slashing penalty. This would be the start of a three goal surge by the Windsor Lancers. Within 88 secdnds, Kevin Pucovsky, Ritch Schaafsma and Daniel Murrell all defeated Joe Harris to give Windsor a decisive advantage. To the fans of the Waterloo Warriors, the situation was very bleak. After two periods, Waterloo found themselves down four goals to one. For Windsor, there was a good possibility that the Lancers would escape Waterloo with the full points. After all, the Warriors were

outplayed badly in the second period, especially during Marie’s penalty, The start of the third period was rather uneventful for the Warriors as Gelinas stymied

all those who tried to score on him. Then came the hit that would change the game. Now, the rough play started

Waterloo skiers

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he Warrior indoor track and field team opened 1999 with a positive showing at the University of Toronto Open last weekend. and Heather Moyse Danniella Carrington finished the 60m dash in sixth and seventh place respectively. In the 600m women’s run, Lynn Coon finished with a 1:39.93 second place finish. Later, she took first place i-n the 1,000m run followed by Jill Patterson and Nicola White in fourth and ninth. In the long jump,

Allison Brazier and Dana Ellis took the first and second spots. Stephen Drew placed sixth in the 1,OOOm and seventh in the 1,500m. Pierre Labrecque finished the 600m in sixth spot while

freeze’out rivals.

and sixth, respectively. In the 4xZ00m relay the women’s team of Carrington, Jill Bennett, Slater and Alison Brazier up to cross the line in This was good

events, Dana Allison teamed 1:49.06. enough

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he Nordic Ski team opened their season last weekend in Duntroon, just outside of Collingwood. It was a full weekend of competition that saw the Warriors compete in two separate events. The first events were the womeix’s 4.5 km and men’s 9 km classic race. Kelly Skinner, Jodie Scott and Jenny Northan took matters into their own hands and finished first, second and third respectively. Ian Murray, Kris Doyon and Greg Rean tamed the

The team opened for 1999 with a positive showing. ;;;;;-;;;;;;;f3;;; ~~ZnZr?Z*relay team, Adria Buchanan, Neal Roberts, Chris McPherson and Matt l

the men’s triple jump trio of Geoff Thiessen, Barry McLaughlin and Robert Ay finished fourth, fifth

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in the second period, when the first skirmish occurred at the far end of the rink (fairly close to the Waterloo goal). Near the end of the period, Windsor’s Bill Allick and Waterloo’s Phil Willard engaged in a pushing and shoving match. But after four minutes and twenty-nine seconds, B& Walker cross-checked Sean Fitzgerald with such intensity that the latter knelled to the ice doubled up in pain. The zebra did see this check and gave Ben Walker a five minute major for this act. This penalty gave Waterloo new life as Dan Mundell, Mike Johnson and Sean Fitzgerald capitalized on Windsor’s mistakes. When the major

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expired, each team had four goals in their favour. There were several great chances after the major, particularly from Phil Willard and Daniel Murrell, but the goaltenders did not let the puck enter the net. Overtime solved nothing, as Waterloo managed only one shot, whereas Windsor provided two challenges for Harris. After the game, Dave Cressman (Waterloo coach) was not impressed with the first two periods, saying “the team wasn’t mentally sharp as it showed up in the play.” However, Cressman went on to say that this 4-4 draw “was a tremendous moral victory for our team where we could have just packed it in.” He also stated that Mike Johnson had a good game and showed poise and patience in his game and that the team counted on Sean Fitzgerald a fair bit. Disappointment was also apparent for the Windsor side. Lancer coach Rick Cranker said “one big play cost us two points.” He also said that the major was “one undisciplined play. . .We had things in pretty good shape up to the penalty. Then we let Waterloo in the game.” Cranker praised the play of Ryan Gelinas, saying, “Gelinas had his best game but we let him down; he deserved a better fate as did the rest of us.” The Warriors next game will be January 16 at the York Yeomen. January 17, the Warriors travel north to battle the Laurentian Voyagers. The three game road trip concludes January 21 when Waterloo takes on University Street rivals Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks.

for first place. The track team’s next event is January 15-16 at the CanAm Classic in Windsor.

course-in lightning speed fmishing first, second and third. Saturday, in the free technical race the women skied IO km and the men 15 km. Kelly Skinner led the women finishing second overall. She was followed closely by her teammates Jodie Scott, third and Leanne Wortly, fifth. Ian Murray took control for the men and finished second, just in front of fourth place Kris Doyon, fifth place Greg Rean and seventh place Jeremy Crane. The team will travel to Laurentian January 16-l 7 to race in thefirstoftwodesignatedraces.

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Mike Johnson Warrior Hockey

Lynn Coon Warrior Track and Field

Mike Johnson, a second year Environmental Studies student from St. Mary’s, demonstrated strong defensive play this weekend in a 4-4 tie vs. Windsor. Mike demontrated his maturing skill ievel, rushing with the forwards to score two goals and one assist in Friday night’s game. The Warriors were losing the contest 4-1 and managed to tie the game in .the third period.

Lynn Coon, a fifth year Accounting student from Weston, Ontario continued to lead the track and field team this weekend in Toronto. Lynn finished second place in the 600 m event in 1:39.93. She later ran one better finishing first in the 1,000 m event. Lynn and the Track and Field team will be in actior) next at the CanAm Ciassic in Windsor this weekend.

Stroeder’s return boosts fire-power W

hat a difference a year can make. Twelve months ago University of Waterloo basketball Warrior Mike Stroeder dedicated the remainder of the 1997-98 season to his mother after learning she had developed cancer. In what can only be described as one of the most difficult periods of his life, Stroeder believed 1998 would be his last: season of university basketball. Fast-forward now one year: Mike Stroeder is back playing the game he loves and sois his mother, and both are stronger than ever.

*‘Everything’s -going really well right now,” says Stroeder with a smile that has been missing for quite some time. “My mom is in remission and she’s been out of chemo for eight months now. Her spirits are up and I think she’s pretty excited I’m coming back to play.” of his So are the rest teammates, not to mention the Warrior faithful. With Stroeder back in the line-up, the Warriors are more than assured their second consecutive trip to the CIAU Championships in Halifax later this season. Waterloo, 1 l- 1 .against Canadian teams during the pre-season, can only move up in the

standings and more importantly the rankings with Stroeder’s return. “The addition of Mike Stroeder after Christmas has improved our fire-power and made us a bigger team,” says head coach Tom Kieswetter. “He protects us in terms of foul trouble and gives us a big advantage in therms of his ability to play inside or out. In his first game back, for example, he was six of eight from the threepoint line and in another game, he played inside and got us a lot of rebounds. He just adds tremendous dimension to our team.” Stroeder also brings something to the Warriors that can not be measured in points, rebounds

or foul shots. His maturity, character and sense of self have been forever changed by the events of last season. “I’ve grown up so much since who last year,” admits Stroeder played for St. Mary’s High School in Ki tchener. “When things go wrong with your family, it really puts your priorities straight. You learn there are more important things than basketball and more important things than school, My family life has never been perfect, but you’ve just got to be there to support them. That is the biggest thing I’ve learned. You have to be there--everythingelse is secondary. You take care of them before you do .anything

else.” “1t”s very difficult to focus on something relatively insignificant as basketball when more pressing adds matter are arising,” Kieswetter. “It’s a credit to Mike’s character and his perseverance that he was able to carry on last season.” “In terms of this year, he is continuing to grow. He’s growing as a person, as a player and as a student. I think it was the natural order of things in terms of him coming back to us this season.” Catch Stroeder and the rest of the Warriors in action January 16 as they take on McMaster, Game time is 2 p.m. in the Physical Activities Complex.

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Don’t Ret the spirit of competition The Spirit of Competition is back! If you have signed up for a Campus Recreational League, or participated last term, you may be familiar with the term “Spirir

of Competition. )) Sports can teach you a great deal about life, such as setting goals, teamwork and cooperation. However, these positive values can only be learned when the sport is enjoyable and play fairly. The Campus Recreation intramural leagues are, therefore, based on the fair play principles of integrity, fairness and respect. Specifically, these principles are: Respect the II&S: Respect the officials and their decisions and your opponent. Give everyone an equal chance to participate. ;tiaintain yourself-Go~troluio/l rims: The “Spirit ofCompetition” program involves every participant, player, captain and league staff. Everyone will have an active part in upholding these prin- a ciples. Teams wil1 be measured through a fair play rating structure of +2, +1,0, -1 and -2 measured against fair play principles. Here is a quick explanation. During the regular season, ca@’ tains rate the opponents and referees rate both teams. All scores will be added up which give a team its final fair play rating total. If a team has a negative total at season end, they will be removed from the league and will not continue in the playoff season. In playoffs, teams can only advance if they win the game and have a rating equal to or better than a 0.

To ensure the “Sprit of the Competition” program is successful, the fair play rating system, team awards and performance deposits are involved. The rating system, awards and deposits help motivate the participants to follow the fair play principles. One team in each sport will be given the “Fair Play Award” for demonstrating the best example of fair play. The “RustyWhistie Award” will be given to a randomly chosen team that has had a penalty free game. The winners receive gift certificates from Dooly’s Pool Hall, pizza dinner from Domino’s and more. The “Sprit of Competition” program is new to Campus Recreation leagues, but the idea of fair play is not. So join in the fun, and help make it happen.

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On the night of January 12 technology backfired on the most innovative university in Canada. Due to a networking problem on campus late Tuesday afternoon the entire computer system in BMH, the Villages, Student Life Centre and the PAC were down for quite some time. Unfortunately it was a critical night for Campus Ret registration with over three hundred people eagerly wanting to sign up for programs and courses offered. With the computer system down nothing could be done. A quick solution of envelopes and patience sent people on their way. Thank you to all those understanding people who waited in line to register and cooperated

he men’s volleyball team played in the York University ExcaIibur Men’s Volleyball Tournament fast weekend. Their first opponent was the University of New Brunswick Varsitv Reds. The Warrior; found themselves behind early in the match losing! the first set 15-5. Theyiuickly did an about face and won the following two sets 1510 and 15-13. The Gold and Black would lose the next set but rally back to win the deciding set 15-l 1. In the second match, the

Warriors were up against the host York Yeomen. York wasn’t going to mess around at their own tournament as they sent the message loud and clear to the Warriors by winning three sets to zero (2-15,

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saw the Warriors up against Guelph. Waterloo would fly out of the gate winning the first set, however, Guelph would battle back to take the next four sets to win 3 sets to 1 (13-15, 16-14, 1513, 16-14). The Warrior’s mis-

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place finishes showing some fast swimming in the backstroke and freestyleevents. Robyn Coraj and Sarah Michailovich both placed third in the 200m fly and 400m freestyle, respectively. Special mention goes to Christina Strevel who had a great finish in her 2OOm breast. On the men’s side there were also several top three finishes. Grahame Jastrebski led the way showing his versatility with a second and third place finish in the 50m free and 200m breast, respectively. Grahame also made an astounding effort as the anchor of the men’s 4 x 1OOm freestyle relay where

ver the Christmas holidays the swim team has been very busy. Whether it was in Barbados under the warm Caribbean sun, or here in the arctic cold of Waterloo, everyone has been training really hard. Many miles were logged and although the results of this intense training may not have been evident in our swim meet against Laurier this past weekend, they will no doubt be apparent at the upcoming championships in Sudbury. With the crazy weather conditions ~~~d?~~~~~~ on Friday, many of up from behind. Other our co-op swimmers top three finishers inwere unable to eluded: Scott Curry _ __ m m make it back for the competition. As a result, Laurier defeated both the men’s and women’s teams quite handily. The women past we&end. E~Ian,““;‘,ecJZ; Warriors had many 200m breast), Special great swims, despite mention goes to Kurt the final point score. Val Walker registered Rohmann for his second place finish in the only win of the meet in her 2OOm 4OOm free and for an extremely entertainbreast, narrowly missing the qualifying ing 200m butterfly, standard for CIAUs by four tenths of a The OUA championships are quickly second. She also placed a close second in approaching and many fast swims are exthe 200m I.M. C.J. Mullin, Melissa Thopetted. They take place February 5 - 7 at mas and Courtney Mitchell all had second Laurentian University in Sudbury..

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Erin has been kept busy this term with the largest club in Campus Rec. The ski club has over 350 members and continues to grow. She has been a member of the Ski Club for four years and on the executive for three years. She is currently the co-president for the second year running. She is also on the varsity rowing team and represents her team on the Varsity Athletics Committee. Your dedication is appreciated.

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ike’s reputation precedes him. In first year, ali I knew was that I was supposed to keep my eye out for a guy who was hard to miss: a 6 ’ 9 tt Toronto Blue Jays draft pick. There is a lot more to him than his amazing left-handed pitches. Not only does Mike excel at sports, he graduated from St. Michael’s high school in Toronto as an academic all-Canadian. Throughout high school, he played on the basketball, baseball and golf teams. He also managed to balance school with three years in the minor leagues for the Jays in Florida and St. Catharine’s. In 1996, Mike joined the UW basketball team. He can’t say enough great things about the team. He finds all the guys to be very accepting and friendly and as he says, “we don’t always get along on the court, but we always get along off the cuurt.” Mike takes his position on the team very seriously. His goals for the season include assuming the role of a leader and high scorer. Already this year, he joined the starting

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an increased responsibility. He plans on carrying his own weight and more. When asked how he balances school and sports, Mike said that he manages time better when he’s busy. Right now he is on a co-opwork term for his Economics oregram, at RBC Dominion Securities:

What do you Iike better: baseball or basketball? It is hard to say because they are the complete opposite of each other. During baseball season, baseball is my favorite sport. During basketball season, basketball is . . . you get the point. In basebail, the players are more laid-back. You’re out in the sun, it is the whole “boys of the summer” thing. With basketball, it is a battle, and the players are much more physical. Let’s talk about the NBA strike. What is your take on it? A bunch of rich guys complaining about how to divide up their money. People have to remember that owners get paid a lot too. The whole thing involves a lot of money. It is a lot of money to see a game, it is a lot of money to get paid out. I just&ink it took too long to work it out. Who

are your sports role models? In the sports world, I would definitely say Will Clark. He plays baseball with intensity and emotion. Also, Fred Couples always seems like he is having a good time on

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do you want to do after your school days are over? I would really like to travel to different parts of the world, and to continue to be involved in sports, either recreationally or to coach.

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pon entering the Front Gallery in East Campus Hall’s fine art departI hear \

relationships and interactions we have with everyone around us, as well as her vending art theme of consumerism. There are two aspects to the exhibition: the Strange Twins

tient, something click on and suddenly there are whispers throughout the room around me, “buy vending art... ” mixed in with, “my life is meaningless...” At first it is rather disconcer;ting as I Leave it to a student to use Krall dinner in her art. try to understand what is photo by David Eby happening, but after a brief ’ examination I find that these theme and Vending Art. The sounds come from the motion acStrange Twins seen hanging on tivated voice boxes which are pirt the wall can be likened to disof Melissa Gordon’s exhibition, carded skins of past relationships, &unge Twins and i3thw Works. They are couples of skins joined MeIissa is a Masters of Fine Arts at the hip, through the torso, or student here at Waterloo, having even the head, and they hang tocome from England several years gether in aivkward contact. I-Iowago. Her show runs from January ever uncomfortable they seem, 4 until January 17, 1999. Part they are also vital to each other; sculpture exhibition, part instalthey are the relationships we have lation, Gordo’n’s work looks at the all had with family, friends, and

even strangers. We depend on dispenses little objects similar to sounds kind of familiar in this age certain aspects of another person, the ones hanging in this exhibiof Beanie Babies, those tickle-me and they feed off certain dolls, and all those parts of us. other got-to-have-it These relationships toys. and interactions are alMelissa Gordon ways changing and evolvsays that the direcing and so these skins are tion her. work has thrown away only to be taken lately is in inreplaced with the new. stallation, video, and The strange twins are gadgets similar to made with blue indus trial her vending art voice material, and have the boxes, and she will crumpled, coarse and pro.bably co%inue in evolved look of a disthis direction for the carded skin. next one and a half They are intriguing years she has left of and impressive in the way her Master’s degree. that they are put together Gordon takes vendand hung. ing machines and photo by David Eby * The attention grabcontemporary culbing devices of the show are the tion. The idea behind vending ture to another dimension in her motion activated voice boxes art is to encourage spending, and exhibition. whispering the “testimony of~the that once you buy one you have to Anyone interested should customer” as the come and check out viewer walks around this fascinating and the gallery. The voice thbught-provoking belongs to a person Who: Melissa 6ordon show. .whose otherwise There is no adWhat: Strange Twins and Other Works empty existence is fulmission charge to filled by spending. Where: Front Gallery- East Campus Hall StrQflgeTwins and Cordon is interested _ Other Works. The When: Until J&L 17 in the things that deFrontGalleryat East fine ourcontemporary Campus Hall holds culture with these regular exhibitions works. She calls this aspect of her collect them all. by UW students. work Vending Art. She has set up Spending becomes an obsesThe public is always welan “art” vending machine that sive compulsive act. All of this come. .

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lage of Bri&zdoon is a ghost town (literally) and only appears every 100 years. Sucks to be Tommy.

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pie have. Three quarters of workers say that they don’t trust their employers and surveys show that a majority of citizens (more than 60 per cent) support unions in their fight with the government. Hargrove strongly opposes the notion that unions decrease productivity or drive away job investors. He credits unionization with helping make Canada the best place in the world to set up a business.’ Aside from business, Hargrove maintains that the CAW is a social movement supporting national and international issues. Decades ago, the CAW realized the necessity of aligning with a political party and their logical choice was the NDP. However, the NDP party like the Liberal party has abandoned left wing views. A key element in the book is a criticism of the former Bob Rae government in Ontario and the current federal NDP’s move to the right. Hargrove takes the opportunity tocriticize the policies of the Harris Tories. He compares Mike Harris to Henry VIII and labels his government “a clear example of power’s abuse.” The concluding three chapters discuss the state of the left, thecorporatization and future of Canada. He projects a worsening future for working class Canadians and warns us not to be deceived by the Thatcherite/Reaganomics that encourage privatization. He cites the United States as an example of these misguided politics where many people cannot afford health care, education or to live in a safe neighbourhood. Overall, I foundL&urc+fLoveto be an enjoyable and informative book. I recommend it to any Canadian citizen and especially to young Canadians who will inherit the changes discussed in this book. The book could be improved in the two areas of writing and presentation of more facts. The opinions presented are good but adding more data would strengthen the arguments. Everyone should be politically informed and active - reading Buzz Hargrove’s Ldwurof Love is an excellent way to do this.

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of compilations like the Mallrafic soundtrack or the No Ahmdve album. CXzy~~n ParR, their newest album, and first with Sonic Unyon is turning a few heads once again. They use a strange knack for knowing what sounds good and combine two things that a number of bands have tried to do before but few have done well. Taking popular sounds and riffs from the seventies, they mix in their. own flavour of a garage band, and they produce an interesting, energetic sound. This album reminds the listener of early Weezer at times, and that blue album of long ago, which was an enormous hit. So what can you expect from this band? Who knows? They seem to have come up with another album that will receive critical acclaim, but will the public start buying into Thrush Hermit again? We’ll find out on February 9, when this album hits musie stores with a shiny red case.

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Not of this world by Keny O’Brien fmpdnt stiltr After seeing Pluto live a few months ago with Reel Big Fish (RBF), I wondered whytheywere touring with a ska band like RBF, After hearing their latest album, I have to know: how in the hell did Pluto ever get a record deal? What did this garage quartet do that was so earth-shatteringly outstanding to somehow cattleprod record execs to give them a contract? S&ZLV H&25 With 2% Frcture,is repetitive, unoriginal, and quite honestly not worth your time. . Normally at this point in the review I’d go into a track-by-track analysis of the album, but in this case I don’t really have to. Despite having two albums on the shelf, Pluto still seems to be too

damn poor to be able to afford a second distortion pedal (or a fourth chord, for that matter). So they plod along with whatever the hell pedal they own on every song. Listening to their songs back to back is like watching one of those old laundry detergent commercials: *‘Can you tell the difference? I can’t tell the difference.” “Good bye Girl” is the most well known track from the album, and it’sclassicPluto, which is OK in small doses. The band’s straight ahead two-beat rhythm became tiring about one albumago, and nothing has changed here. Pluto attempts departures from their formulaic speed-grunge at some points; predictably, these departures ultimately wind up as half-assed material that any high-

schoolerwithaFenderandachord dictionary could have come up with. Pluto can only lose fans on this one; people who didn’t like them the first time won’t like them now, and many of those who liked their other stuff won’t be as appreciative of the band’s stagnation. There are better one hit wonders to support.

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Juan Atkins is a weathered DJ in the Detroit techno scene: After founding the Metroplex label way back in ‘85, and helping pioneer Detroit techno and heavily influencing the Chicago house scene, he’s we11 earned his title of the Godfather of Techno. This CD successfully pays homage to the old school roots of the techno sound, complete with computerized synth sounds

bites you on the ass. Here’s the lowdown: you’ve got nineteen fun-filled tracks spun out by the likes of such ‘*house” hold staples including Juan Atkins and Derrick May. The first track, “NO UFOs,” pretty much established Juan Atkins on the international techno map under his cover name “Model 500” as well as helped define the template for Detroit techno. Track three is a throwback to the Activisionesque blips-andbloops of Kraftwerk, almost repli-

with a hilariously cheeseball techno track “Sex on the Beach,” just oozing ofporn soundtrack material. Despite serious props for helping propel the electronica movement to its current state, I cannot say that I have much foundation to have any appreciation for the lack of deviation on this creation. It’s the type of CD you’d throw on if you were puffing on a little sump’n sump’n or if you were writing a review for Imprint.

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Think of imaginary American history and Kentucky Fried Chicken and you’ll understand Clutch’s latest album, “The Elephant Riders.” Now, how does this all come together coherently? Well, most to all of their latest album was written while the barid lived in an old Southern ho& build around 1760 while the band immersed themselves in American history, and every Sunday, they simply must have KFC. Don’t ask, just smile and nod. One can never listen to Clutch seriously. They don’t. They are doing this for fun, and you can tell. They love what they do, they don’t care about what the listener

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might as well try. Hey, I never said I was perfect. The songs are heavy on the guitar, thick in the vocals, and light on drums and bass, This is mixed- with lyrics that range from paranoid to surreal (c’mon, @ephants used ashorses in the Civil War? What was wrong with their chicken dinner?). Shove it all into a blender and you get one hell of a fun listen. The album is impressive, with each song supporting and helping the others come together in a mesh of coherentmusic. It unquestionably gets the listener into the songs, jumping to the guitar and trying to figure out what

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to overall listening satis“Coming of Age (Da Sequel)” earns extra points for the dramatic element of climatic rising action. A portrayal of building tension between friends

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Have you ever come across a band or a song and wondered how these people ever got a record deal? Case in point: MisterJones, an eight-member band from the Big Apple and their album HailMury. -Theirs is a claswith blood pressure elevatsic example of an attempted new ing musical instrumentasound, while in actuality, they tion. A tale of a thin line have only boarded the Ameribetween love and hate can-pop bandwagon and taken narrationThe whole album their reserved seats. album displays Jay-Z’s voThe sound. . . well think cal precision, his abiiity to along the lines of Sugar Ray goes develop lyrical content and Gordon Lightfoot. Mr. Jones atlay it down to any rhythm. tempts to capitalize on the mixof Jay-Z’s comedic charm dance and rock music through does not overshadow his the use of the contemporary genius in constucting thedrum/guitar conglomerate with maticconcepts: he presents the addition of a scratch-master. logical ways of viewing the It sounds like a decent idea, but world and doesn’t focus on the mix of the two styles has to be the usual topics:money, coherent for it to be practical. and sex. Guest appearHerein Mr. Jones lacks, as is ilby Da Ranjahz, Jermaine in the sporadic scratchand DMX. Jay-2 just keeps . lustrated ing in the song “Kristine.” In better so ifyou didn’t pick addition, I’ve always found it difalbum yet-go and get it! ficult to accept new era bands covering classicanthems from the fifties, sixties, and seventies. What’s worse is when a brand new set of lyrics are intertwined within the original lyrics. Once again, Mister Jones has done a bang-up job in taking the best of Steppenwolfs “Magic Carpet Ride” and transforming it into nothing short of a mess. In total, Hail Mary covers

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Chris Fidd. I have never heard of him and apparently neither has Yahoo!‘s research database. So this review will have to bebasedonhiscurrentCDalone. The CD has no officiat name on it’s own other than C.ris Fidd. It is produced by a company in Vancouver called Horton Music Publishing Inc., which is also virtually unknown. The CD contains all of nine songs, each just under five minutes. Most of the songs contain an odd mixture of strings, keyboard, horns and drums which make up an interesting sound. All the music and song lyrics were written by Chris Field. He seems to be trying to imitate OASIS sound yet make it uniquely his own by adding more instrumen es. The look he appears to be trying for is early Beatles and some of this style also rubs off on his music. It’s sort of a cut and paste with bits and pieces of more well known bands stuckin all over the place. This gives it the feel of a well known and beloved band. So if you want to get a CD with will give you that old sound you

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ferings, it’s a bit disheartening. Besides that though, Poppy Seed and the gang have a not bad album of (as mentioned) Morrissey sound-a-like tunes. Pretty much all the tracks feature an acoustic guitar and Poppy (Steven Bromstein) soulfully crooning away. It’s enough to make you cry. Not a bad outing, this indy group shows a bit of promise.

ell, the movie came, bombed without a sound, and left. But this is still here. And it probably won’t do much for itself either. The movie is about two con men (one the brains, the other the charmer) who are not content with ripping off people for small money, but are going for the big spenders; hence the title. Then they meet a girl who throws everything out of sync. In England. So, if you can’t guess that most of the tunes on this CD are Brit-pop love songs with some smatterings of guitar and techno, then you haven’t been reading this close enough. Not that this album isn’t good, but it isn’t great. No big names, a small amount of catchy tunes, but in all nothing to really sell it. The fact that the movie did little busi-

ness at the box office almost makes this album forgettable. And the mix of styles is not exactly what is mains&earn nowadays (of course, with the music industry now, it could be next week). And, almost like an ode to “Austin Powers,” has two songs written by Burt Bacharach, including “What the World Needs Now is Love” sung by Jackie De Shannon. Who she is, I have no clue. But boy! Did I feel like I just turned to an adult contemporary station on the radio. In its defence, though, the album is light and fun. Nothing serious, littie heavy music, no messages, small amounts of blowyour-eardrums-in-a-nightclub volume. All ear candy. Which, in itself, makes this soundtrack almost like a sorbet, to cleanse the palate if you will. Give the old noggin a break. Of course, no one would buy a record to clear your mind of, say, the Spice Girls. Well, I would, but that’s another matter. So generally, “Shooting Fish” can pretty much go the way of the movie, and sink like a dead fish after bobbing about for a while.

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money that has been spent on nuclear weapons. The book clearly and convincingly lays out this case. An argument that has been made in defense of this rampant spending is that it kept the superpowers at peace during the Cold War. This is a difficult argument to refute, because it benefits from perfect hindsight. As Stephen Schwartz ‘notes on page 545, “U.S. nuclear weapons clearly played a major role in the prosecution of the cold war. Yet the tit-for-tat escalation in weaponry and the remaining uqcertainties regarding Soviet policies make it impossible to know exactly which threats or crises were avoided, what risks were incurred in producing and deploying large numbers of weapons, and what risks will arise in the future as a result of past nuclear policies.” He goes on to remark that deterrence could have been achieved and maintained with at much less expense and with much less danger. Qne of the key problems with any government controlled project is the secrecy with which they are often run. While it is clear that a certain degree of secrecy must be maintained, it is imperative to educate the populace on issues and projects. A quote from Governor Val Peterson (Director, Federal Civil Defense Administration, September 1953)from page 545 sums up this view very well when it states: “I believe that in a democracy, where the affairs of government are the business of all the people . . . that the people can be depended upon to make the proper decision - if they have the facts. I don’t believe that: any other position is defensible in a democracy.” Yet what we see is exactly the opposite. The citizens of democracies all over the world are treated to ignorance, because politicians fear that they are not intelligent or stoic enough to handle such pressing issues as atmospheric testing. Because of this, persons in the United States have been subjected to bomb fallout drifting with the winds onto their yards, into their lungs. Soldiers have been witness to the awesome power of the atom, and then brushed off with a broom to decontaminate them. A small island in the Pacific Ocean (Elugelab) was wiped off the face of the planet by a 10.4 megaton (equivalent to 10.4 million tons of TNT) nuclear device and the coral reef around it annihilated. It left a crater 50 meters deep and 1.9 kilometres wide. The authors of Atomic Adit are entirely correct: it is high time that accountablity and responsibility were factored into the shaping of mankind’s future. Atomic Audit is a great book, full of detail and is strongly recommended to scholar, student and citizen. It will take you awhile, but it will also open your eyes very, very widely.

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Fall 1998 grade reports. There are some changes to the way fall term undergraduate mark reports will be handed out, so please disregard the notice that appeared in the January 8,1999 lmprint issue. Marks for part-time students, and for students who were on campus in the fall term but aren’t on campus this winter term, will be mailed. in the week of January 18. Marks for fulltime engineering students who are doing terms 1A and 1B, or 4A and 48, consecutively in the fall and winterwill be sent to their academic departments for pickup. Marks for other full-time undergraduate students who were on campus in the fall term and are here again for the winter term will be available for pickup starting Wenesday, January 20. Location: Needles Hall, second floor, time: 10a.m.to4p.m.Anymarksheldfor pickup that haven’t been picked up by 2:30 p.m. on Friday, January 22, will go into the mail to student’s home addresses that afternoon. Winter 1999 registration deadline is January 29. Students who have not registered by January 29 will not be permitted to write examinations or receive credit for these courses. HopeSpring is pleased to announce their 3rd Annual HopeSprin Celebrate and Educate dinner raised 0 35,000 for the cancer support centre. For more info about HopeSpring contact Betty at 43 Allen Street, W., Waterloo. 742-4673. Ebytown Food Co-operative: organic, locally grown, niinimally packa ed food for people, not for profit. A a ordable prices! 280 Phillip Street, Building A4, Waterloo Co-operative Residence. Call 886-8806 for weekly store hours. Gulded Self Change of alcohol use: for individuals who may have concerns about the amount they are drinkin and want to cut down. Call Counselling ‘s ervices (ext. 2655) to find out more. Waterloo-Germany Exchange - open to all students. Receive UW credits language fluency - International experience - Intercultural skills! Deadline is March 15, 1999. For more info contact secretary in Modern Languages, Rm 313 or the Director at 885-1211 ext. 2260 or http:// watarts.uwaterloo.cal-mboehrinl Exchange/mannheim.html. St Paul’s United College has rooms available for the Winter ‘39 and Spring ‘99 terms. Please call 885- 1460 or drop by for an application and a tour! . Distinaufshed Teacher Awards-To nominzte your outstanding professor, lab demonstrator, or teaching assistant for the Distin uished Teacher Award, contact TRA 2 E, MC 4055, Ext 3132. Deadline: Friday, February 5199. Exchanges to France or Germany for 1999-2000: awards of $1200 to undergraduates and graduates. Deadline January 8, 1999. Forms available from Maria Lango, IPO, Needles Hall, Room 3015. Nominations are requested for the following undergraduate student seat on the University Senate. ( At least five (5) nominators are required.) One (1) full-time Faculty of Applied Health Sciences undergraduate student to be elected by the full-time Faculty of Applied Health Sciences students, term May I, 1999 to April 30, 200. Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, University Secretariat, Needles Hall, Room 3060, not later than 3:OO p.m., Tuesday, Januaryl9,1999. A byelection will follow if necessary in conjunction with th8 annual 8leCtitinS (February 9 and 10,1999) conducted by the Federation of Students. Nomination forms are available from the University Secretariat or from the Federation of Students Office, Student Life Centre. K-W Chamber Music Society asents Amadeus, featuring Moshe R’ammer, violin; Doug McNabney, viola; Dennis Brott, cello - Saturday, January 9 at 8 p.m.. Marls Luzardo-Noel, saxophone; Martha Fomeila, piano Wednesday, January 13 at 8 p.m. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young Street West, Waterloo. Call for info: 66&l 673. The Canadian Socle of Painters in Watercolour presents 74 ameless 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 Tumkev Coffee House. Sian up at the Tumkei Desk in th8 SIX. ’ St. Paul’s United College has parking available for the Winter 1999 term. For

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information please call 885-1460 or droo bv the Business Office to see us. TOEFL Preparation Course - the Test of English as a Foreign Language course (TOEFL) begins January 19 and ends 23. Classes are held every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-430 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 details. A special THANKYOU to all of you whd have returned lost wall&, watcards, bank cards, etc. to the Turnkey Desk. Thankyou to all who have participated in making theTurnkey Oesk 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 Turnkey 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 the full-time Faculty of Engineering students, term Ma 1, 1999 to Aprd 30, 2001. One (I) fuYl-time Faculty of Mathematics undergraduate Student to be elected by the full-time Faculty of Mathematics students, term May 1, 1999 to April 30,200l s One (1) full-time at-lar 8 undergraduate student to be elected %y 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:OO p.m., Tuesday, January 19, 1999. Elections will coincide with the annual Federation of Students’ elections (February 9 and IO, 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 of the following areas of knowledge: the processes at work in mediated learning activities; the potential and limitations of interactive multimedia instruction; the steps of the development process for instructional multimedia, 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 @ uwat&loo.ca The Waterloo-Wellington Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada is looking for volunteers to help organize a speiial even, join us on Wednesday, January 20th at 7:00 p.m. in meeting room A of the Kitchaner Public Library. To RSVP or for further information contact Sylvie at 1-800387-1 479 8X!. 18. This January the Farmer’s Market will b8 in operation again. Students may purchase their $2.00 tickets at the Turnkey Desk in the Student Life Centre. This return fare offers students a trip to the Farmer’s Market in St.Jacobs to shop. Crafts, fresh produce, meats, CheeS8S and flea market buys are all part of this famous local market. So jump on board and enjoy one of the many services offered to you at the University of Waterloo! Falun Dafa Introduction Session, it is free; 12:OO a.m. - I:00 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15 Multipurpose room, SLC. Falun Dafa is a compreh8nSiV8 cultivation system for mind and body, profound teachings highly effective eieicises. All welcom%! The UW Spanish Club is presenting an art exhibit& the SLC multipurpose rtim this week. Several Latin American artists from the community will be presenting their work. This event is free of charge, and will be open definitely between 2-6 p.m. daily, possibly longer. The League of Canadian Poets invites all Canadians to submit their best poems. This year’s submissions to the contest should b8 postmarked no later than January31,1999and must include the entry fee. For details visit email www.ooets.ca lea ti@ican.net.Fax:&)504-0096, MaI9 : 54 Wolseley Street, Toronto, ON M5T lA5 (please send SASE) College Bowl II. Everyone is Welcomeffeb 11 at the SLC. 12-l p.m.

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Counselling Services is offering the following workshops for the Winter 1999 term: Personal/Social - Assertive Communication; Eating Disorders; Exam Stresss Management; Procrastination; Reducing, Releasing & Managing Anger; Self-Esteem Enhancement Group; Stress Management Through Relaxation Training Study Skills - Study Skills Workshops; Preparing For & Writing Exams Career Development - Exploring Your Personality Type; Interest Assessment For more Information and regktratlon, vlslt Counselling SetvIces, Needles Hall, Room 2080 (directly across the hall from th8 Registrar’s Cmice). (a minimal materials fee applies for most workshops)

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Life Centre &KBomber-Friday, open to ALL ages

Feb. 5 at 8 p.m.

special Companions # 128are needed by the Alzheimer Society. Two hours a week of your time and compassion is all that is needed to provide companionship to a person who suffers from Alzheimer disease and ease the caregiving stress felt by a family. By engiging-in recreational activities of mutual ‘interest, you would help to maintain their dignity and build their self-esteem. Excellent training will give you hands-on experience as you learn how to provide appropriate recreational and social support. Spring is Here at least the flowers are! It is time for CNIB’s 10th Anniversary Crocus Sale and they need you help. Friendly, outgoing volunteers are needed for 3-4 hours between February 3-6 and February 10-l 3 to staff the crocus booths and assist with deliveries. Volunteers are needed in K-W, Cambridgeand Guetph. Seniors Need Help #058-205 RAISE Home Suppo,rt is looking for volunteers t0 help kXat elderly PerSOnS get to medical appointments or assist them with grocery shopping. Reimbursement for mileage is available and the time Commitment is completely flexible. Volunteers must be 20 years old, available during the day and have $l,CKKl,OOO insurance coverage. Friendly Helper #123-2381 A patient, compassionate volunteer is needed for one or two hours a week to spend time with a delightful woman with a developmental challenge. Sh8 enjoys jigsaw puzzles, cardmaking, latch hook, walking and baseball. Her terrific sense of humour and love of learning make her a joy to be with. Speak Danish? #027-2545 Your language skills would be greatly appreciated by an elderly Danish -speaking woman who would enjoy a weekly visit. Her interests include painting, crochet and hairdressing. She also likes an occasional outing to the mall. As a volunteer visitor, ych would receive training and on-going support and would be asked t0 &mm3 2-3.hours a W88k for 8 months. Woin8n Heiping wOm8n #134-25dd A female volunteer is needed to facilitate a Bingo/Social Night for incarcerated women. This event takes place on Monday evenings at Grand Valley Institute and requires a volunteer with good interpersonal skills who has some basic knowledge about incarcerated women. www.net expert #051 Use your experiences with WWW to review, critique and enhance the K-W Multicultural c8ntf8’S WebSit - httD:l/ www.kwmc.on.ca As well as critically evaluating the site, you would document the process so that centre staff will be able to maintain, manage and enhance the site in the future. A volunteer with experience designing and imptementing database in MS Access to developa database of employment and training programs in Waterloo Region. VOLUNTEER & MAKE A LIFELONG DIFFERENCE -Visit a child in their school setting to build self-esteem and confidence. Call FRIENDS Serviceof CMHA 744-7645 8Xt. 317 visit www.cmhawrb.on.ca

MONOAYS English Language Lab/class is from 2:30-3:20 o-m. in Modem Languages 113, Se timber to June. The c&s fias an emp Rasis on pronunciation and listening exercises. Students, faculty, staff and spouses are welcome to attend. For more information contact the Intemational Student mice, ext. 2814. WEDNESDAYS Grace Christian Feilowshlp, a gatherin of Christians and those interested in C% ristiani meets at 430 .m., St. Paul’s Unit J Colle , McKirdy R ail. Oetails: Graham E. 9” otiy, ext. 366tc$ ’ : tE;;;;y@ watservl . 8 . FRIDAYS English Conversation Class meets from 2-4 p-m- in NH 2080. Septemberto June. Students, faculty, staff and spouses are invited to attend. For more info call ext. 2814, International Student Office. SATURDAYS Farmer’s Market 8~s schedule. The buswillpickupand returnat9:15,10:15, and 11:30 a.m. Tickets $2.00 Ask at the Turnkey Desk, SLC for more info.

Data&l Scholars Foundation Applications are now being accepted for the Datatel Scholars Foundation. The awards have a value of up to $2,000 each and are available to full-time or part-time students, graduate or undergraduate, in any discipline. Applications will be evaluated based on academic merit, personal motivation, external activities including employment and extracurricular activities and on letters of recommendation. Application deadline is January 22,1999. Interested students should contact the Student Awards Office of the Graduate Studies Office for an application form. Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Awards for Study in French Several $5,000 scholarships are being offered to undergraduate students across Canada to study at another Canadian university in their second official language (French or English}. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents, currently enrolled in the s8cortd or third year of their first undergraduate university program. Students must have sufficient ability in their s8cond official language to pursue studies in that language. Application deadline is January 27, 1999. For further information and application forms, contact the Student Awards Office. Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Progam The Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program provides renewable scholarships valued at up to $4,000 annually to undergraduate students currently studying towards a first degree. The awards are intended to encourage Canadian youth to seek the high ideals repre$ented by Terry Fox. Selection will b8 based on a dedication to community senrke, humanitarianism, perseverance and courage in the face of obstacles, and the pursuit of excellence in fitness and academics. Application deadline is February 1st, 1999. For further information and application forms, contact the Student Awards Office.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16,1999 Vigil for Iraqi chfldren: Gulf War Remembrance. 1 Ilun to noon 8 Speaker’s Comer, King & Benton St., Kitchener. Lift the sanctions now! Sponsored by Iraq Action Network - Canada 81 K-W Interfaith hb8ment for Social Justice. Info: 746-5851 SUNDAY, JANUARY 17,1999 UW Marxist-Leninist study group. Inaugural meeting of the term, to be addressed by a representative of ammunist Youth Union of Canada; topics are: ‘Necessity For Change!’ and ‘Modern Communism’. 2130 PM, in SLC 1115 Ail students, staff and faculty welcome. For more info call 885-l 185 or email accwat @ web. net MONDAY, JANUARY 18,1999 The Cefcle Fran&s will hold a General Meeting on Monday, January 18, 1999 at 4:30 p.m. in ML104 (Faculty Lounge) for ail individuals interested. The Cerde Francais will host a Pub Night at the Fox and the Pheasant from 8:OO 0.m. The UW Spanish Club invites you to an evening of art and music at the SLC multipurpose room, starting at 7:3O p.m. Several Latin American artists will be presenting their work and there will be drinks provided free of charge. The exhibit will continue thmugh to Friday, January 22, 1999. Hours between 2-6 p.m. daily, possibly longer. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20,1999 Gay and Lesbians of Waterloo Coming Out Discussion Group. Topic: ‘Coming Out to Others’. 7% PM; social follows at 9 PM, HH 378. Meet old friends and make new ones. All welcome. Details: 8844563

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27,1999 Gay and Lesbians of Waterloo Coming Out Discussion Group. Topic: ‘Coming Out to Parents and Other R8latiVeS’. 7:30 PM; social follows at 9 PM, HH 378. Meet old friends and make new ones. All welcome. Details: 884-4569

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